Essay on The Screaming Paintings

The eye is first directed towards Jesus, who is the center of attention in the painting. His pale body is limp, and trickles of blood run down his face and body. There are holes in his hands and feet, and gashes in his stomach, which show the complete suffering that Jesus went through. The painting also feels a bit crowded with all the people. The artist may have done this to draw more attention to Jesus in the center. Van der Weyden superbly made Jesus’ body seem lifeless, and the crowded people look grieved. This causes the viewer to feel a pang and it stirs their heart to love God, which is called an

In David’s painting there is a clarity and crispness that is similar to a photograph, yet his figures maintain a baby like softness. Gerard’s implied texture of the clothes and environment are softer than David’s giving the painting a more realistic appearance. David and Gerard both show in these paintings that they have a very good understanding of human anatomy and form. The figures in both painting have a good sense of underlying structure and weight.

These paintings share a multitude of similarities, however these counteract with several key differences in both

In my eyes, I have the impression of seeing small strokes of purple and green. Another example would be the leaves on the first tree that is on the left side. On the tree leaves, I am able to see the impression of another color besides green and that it the color orange. The other Painting The Scream is a painting made of Tempera and oil paint on unprimed canvas and its dimensions are of 33’’ by 26’’. The artist of The Scream uses the technique of tempera and oil painting. The artist uses long swirling colors and lines all around the painting. The intensity of the colors makes viewers sense the emotional status of human in the painting. Another difference between this two paintings is what each painting represents. The painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte tries to show viewers how a weekend would be like for people in the working and middle class in the 19th century. In order to show this, the artist painted a Parisian park in which there are people from different genders and ages arranged in groups based

In the foreground of the painting, a crowd of people gather around the recently resurrected Lazarus. There are roughly fifteen individuals in the crowd in a variety of postures, many of which are contorted and turned away. Furthermore, their forms are painted with considerable emphasis on the way that their respective limbs are bent and twisted which consequently creates a peculiar confined space in which much of the content and action is contained. The outstretched arms and warped bodies of the figures create two diagonal lines which cross over each other in the center of the painting, leading the eye to the primary subject and the focal point, Lazarus. To the left of him is a younger woman looking outwards, contrasting with the focused inward gaze of the crowd. Additionally, the same women mentioned previously also dons a striking white garment similar to that of

On the left we have Caravaggio, The Conversion of St. Paul, 1600, and on the right we have Georges de la Tour, Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, 1640. These two paintings represent major movements within art such as the influence of artists on one another, and the approach of religious paintings during the seventeenth century.

The subject focuses on Christ's crucifixion, but figures exist beyond Christ performing their daily modern activities in a semi countryside landscape and urban setting. Mary and John both stand in contrapposto, balancing the majority of their weight on one leg (Figure 6). At the foot of the cross, bones lie to represent death (Figure 7). There is balance in the picture with each side reflecting each other symmetrically in scale. For instance, the tree in the midground on the left side is the same height as the outcropping of stone on the right side. Mary and John are also a larger scale than Christ and the figures in the midground and background. This involves the use of linear perspective, where objects farther away seem smaller to the eye. The outlines of the figures are less blunt and more realistic in this painting. A viewer can see this in the form of the drapery, which shows the forms of the figures with a slight illusion of motion from an unknown source of wind. Christ's loin cloth seems to flutter in the wind from both sides. The tension in John's drapery emphasizes his agitation, while the thick folds of Mary's drapery demonstrates her grief over the loss of her son (MFA Label). This can be seen through John's eyes looking up toward the body of Christ on the cross, and Mary looking down at the bones at the base of the cross, which represent death. Joos van Cleve emphasized the use of colors in place of atmospheric perspective, which makes

“The Scream” is a famous painting by Edvard Munch .The 1893 painting is regarded as one of the most iconic human figures in the history of Western art. The painting is described by Munich as an autobiographical representation of his own feelings of insanity. The painting was created by Much through the use of oil, tempera, and pastel while he was living in Oslo, the capital and perhaps the most popular city in Norway. The painting is generally described as abstract. It is referred to as being an iconic part of the Expressionism Movement, a movement that manifested in Germany from 1905 until 1950.The movement established a new way and approach to artistic presentation. America journalist Arthur Lubow cites the painting as “"an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time."(Lubow, 2006)

Impressionism was initially forged out of a love for nature. The artists were interested in depicting reality as they saw beauty in even the mundane facets of life. The brush strokes and color changes are obvious and the choppy effect sometimes has to be viewed at a distance to determine the picture’s message. When viewed closely, the artist’s emotion is easily discernable with

In the painting there is negativity, destruction, death, fear, and certain characters that all describes what is presented in this painting.

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter born in 1863. He was known for his pre- expressionist painting The Scream. Munch had a psychological themed style in his artworks. Edvard Munch had struggled with agoraphobia and drinking. Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder where in situations the sufferer perceives certain environments as dangerous or uncomfortable, usually due to the areas vast openness or crowdedness. It is easy to say that Munch struggled with insanity during his lifetime. Munch is portraying an actual experience of a scream piercing through nature while on a walk, after his two companions, seen in the background, had left him. He does this with his use of color, line, and organization.

Art from the Romanesque time period had specific tones and details that “are most frequently described in terms of the intensity of emotion in which they evoke” (ATUN).

more on the emotion of the thing. E.g. there is a painting of a man

This painting is divided into three equal parts by the arches in the background and the characters correspond to each of these arches (TV12). The father is in the middle portion of the painting. The lines of perspective created by the tiled floor, draws our attention to the swords that the father is holding and the vanishing point lies just behind the handles of the sword. Our angle of vision is such that we are looking directly at the main figures groups, particularly the father. A single light source from the left of the picture illuminates the characters and also focuses our attention to the father holding the sword. This creates a ‘theatrical’ effect. The background is simple and stark so our attention is focussed on the figure groups in the painting. The painting has a wide tonal range that makes the composition logical and balanced. The colours used in this

"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.