On The Raft Of The Medusa

While Gericault's, Raft of the Medusa was essentially criticized for its lack of direct criticism of the event and more a display of the human element, it is this feature that made it characteristically romantic. Gericault took the national scandal out of the papers and turned it into a personal event for each of the passengers. Rather than depict the weltering bodies of the crew, he gave them more muscular frames in vigorous poses. Originally setting out to portray the event as nothing more than a visual truth, he shifted his focus to portray a greater truth of suffering.

It was painted and completed by Joseph Mallord William Turner in England around 1820 and is an oil on canvas painting created during the romanticism era. The story behind this piece is, when a slave ship set out on a voyage they would pack the ships full of slaves, and along the way the slaves would get sick and die so the crew would throw them over board to avoid paying cargo tax. In the painting viewers see a satanic sky and dark murky water with limbs sticking out of it (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). The brush strokes are all sort of slanted down to the right and some are even curled to depict waves that look to be swallowing up the slaves as well as the ship. This painting is very sublime because it has beautiful colors and form yet the meaning behind it all is

The first painting in the museum is by Guy Harvey, he painted a beautiful underwater theme, with the waves crashing above the sailfish as it chases small fish for food. Guy Harvey painted this painting and many of his others to portray the natural beauty of the ocean and everything inside of it.

Out of the choices I had to choose from for my analysis. I chose the painting, “Slave Ship” by Joseph Turner, due to the chaos I see in the painting. Not only is the event being portrayed very chaotic, but the painting itself is full of turmoil as well. The painting has vigorous brush strokes and the colors seem to melt together in areas leaving the sky and the sea hard to distinguish in the middle portion of the painting. The artist also uses bright and dark colors allowing the creation of pandemonium that I feel when I see this work. You can see the beginning of a storm in the left of the painting along with a boat heading into the rougher waters caused by the weather, resulting in the bow to be propelled

The painting The ship of Patience was created by an unknown 18th-century painter in Cuzco, Peru. The purpose of the painting seems to demonstrate the movement and expansion of Christianity overseas. The striking angelic figure in the sky shows a clear contrast with the frightening devils on the ground. By labeling each figure and person the painter was able to create an easy visual image for the natives to learn from. Without knowing anything about Christianity the painting clearly has Jesus Christ in the sole center person of the painting. There aren’t just holy, famous people on the boat with him, there are people with diseases and those that look like workers. It is demonstrating the open and loving beliefs and image of Christianity.

The bottom portion of the painting is topsy-turvy as well, showing shackled hands and chains raised from the turbulent seas. With close inspection, you can see fish within the thrashing waves on the bottom left portion of the painting. There are fish seen swarming a shackled hand in the bottom right portion of the work as well. One could possibly argue that the fish are sea monsters. I also see something that’s hard for me to make out, but I think it may be an emergency boat partially emerged from the waters. Lastly, I

The disembarkation at Marseilles takes an ordinary task of disembarking a ship and turns it into a visual masterpiece that moves the eye all over the scene with wonder and amazement. This painting was commissioned by the Marie de’ Medici to promote her divine right to be the queen of France. As Marie disembarks the ship she is not just greeted by a few members of French royalty she is greeted by many royals and even the gods have come to greet Marie. She surrounded by very elegantly dressed ladies and is greeted by the personification of France. This personification of France is draped in a blue cape bedecked with the fleur-de-Lis, which is a French symbol for royalty. There are many references to mythology in this piece. Fortuna can be seen holding the rudder of the ship.

This piece that I have chosen has many different identifications some may know it as “The Rising Up” some may know it as “The Revolt”. This painting was based on the boat that carried the slaves from one country to the next called the La Amistad. This painting presents the moment in the movie Amistad named after the boat, where the slaves were speaking in creole about how they were going to escape. Once they got the courage, they attacked the shipmates and demand the caption to take them back to Africa. This painting captures all of that.

There has been many retellings of Snow White but some aren’t that much of a retell of the original story, and some are based loosely. Snow written by Tracy Lynn is in between those types of retelling but it isn’t the typical Snow White fairytale that many are familiar with since many twists appear in the book. Snow narrates the life of Jessica or known as Snow White who is a young kind-hearted duchess without a mother who is neglected by her heartbroken father. When Jessica's father remarries, Jessica thinks she will finally get the mother she had always dreamed of, but Jessica's new stepmother is strange and dangerous. Jessica's stepmother plans to stay beautiful and "the fairest of them all". Jessica's stepmother hatches a scientific plan

Mexico historically has a long, rich and dynamic culture. It was influenced not only by the Native Americans in the Aztecs and Mayans, but also by the earliest European global super power, that being Spain. The Aztec empire thrived across most of modern day Mexico coming to prominence around 1424. The Aztecs were said to have ruled over 5 million people at the time. In 1519 Hernan Cortes led several hundred Spaniards along with other Native allies and conquered the Aztecs. This is significant in the sense that this single event is a defining moment in its history. Mexico defines itself as a “Mestizo” or mixed heritage and culture of both Spanish and Native American influence. For nearly three hundred years Spain would rule and govern

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The Raft of the Medusa was created by Theodore Gericault in the years 1818 and 1819 during the French Romantic period. This oil painting, which stands at a massive 491x716cm, was created to capture the tragedy of the Medusa.This essay discusses what the Raft of the Medusa was, the reasons behind why Theodore Gericault made this painting and the political impacts it had at the time it was made. The ‘Medusa’ was a french frigate that set sail in 1816 from Rochefort heading to Senegalese. Harris (2011) states that Gericault read an account by survivors about the tragedy of the shipwreck and was intrigued to learn more. He learnt that the

2. Create your own art critique for The Raft of the Medusa. The Raft of the Medusa, an oil painting by Jean Louis Théodore Géricault in 1819, displays a hopeless tone by using the frantic men reaching toward the sky. The artist uses cool hue and a striking, simple negative space to draw the viewers eye to the triangle of men.

But even the men in the white tank tops with more flesh exposed, their hats are fine, and their body language is relaxed and do not portray that of a servant. I noticed the sail and row boats in the distance, the women surrounding the table; laughter, wine and company, and obvious friendship, but maybe also boredom. Was this a pre or post boating trip as the title hints? Was this painting staged, or maybe even a band and live music playing to the side? After closely looking over the portrait, what is most interesting to me is that contrary to the large number of people in the painting, no one’s gazes meet, showing no connections between the people, although most are smiling.

The distressed ship is the biggest in the painting, making it the center of the piece. The artist drew the two other ships small to make them seem distant and another small boat close to the damaged ship. The scale of the painting itself is pretty big; it’s 36 inches long and 53 inches wide.