Chose any two of the paintings you fell in love with yesterday and give a critical appraisal of their importance to your understanding of the world of the Renaissance and/or Shakespeare.
This trip to the art gallery was such an eye opener in regards to the Renaissance/Shakespeare time period. The main two that captured my attention are very similar but show two different views of the same event. They are the “Deposition” painted by Prospero Fontana, 1563, and “Dead Christ on the Cross” painted by Guilio Procaccini, 1618. These two paintings are the artist representation of the same subject, Jesus dying on the cross for our sins.
Looking around the room, made me realise how religious the Renaissance period was, however, these two paintings showed me two different sides and views of the story. The first painting that I looked at was the “Deposition” by Prospero Fontana. To me, Fontana is trying to capture the positive side to this event. The use of the bright colour almost gives off a happy and positive vibe towards the event. Fontana looks at Jesus dying on the cross and sees this as a joyous occasions as he has died for our sins. Using the bright colours in the background and the bright coloured clothing worn by everyone in the painting but Jesus.
The painting on the right of the “Deposition” in the NSW Art Gallery is the next painting I am going talk about. This painting is “Dead Christ on the Cross” by Guilio Procaccini. This painting, like the last, conveys the artist perspective on the Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. Compared to the “Deposition”, “Dead Christ on the Cross” uses very dark colours. Having these two side by side in the Gallery really shows the contrast of perspective the two artists view this event to be.
Overall, the trip to the NSW Art Gallery was such an amazing experience, like always, and being able to see all of the wonderful artworks for the Shakespeare and Renaissance period was simply wonderful and a very eye-opening experience.
(https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/219.1994/)
(https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/249.2005/)
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A thoughtful entry Anastasia, but needing much careful editing: PLEASE MAKE THESE CHANGES NOW!
*Please attend to editing your work carefully. Here is what I have picked up:
*These two paintings are the artists’ representations of the same subject: Jesus dying on the cross for our sins.
* sees this as a joyous occasions = sees this as a joyous occasion [singular!]]
* Using the bright colours in the background and the bright coloured clothing worn by everyone in the painting but Jesus.= can you see that this is not a complete sentence? what is needed to make it a sentence:
The artist is using the bright colours in the background and the bright coloured clothing worn by everyone in the painting but Jesus.
*conveys the artist perspective = conveys the artist’s perspective [the perspective is OWNED by the artist: ‘s or s’ – Apostrophe- if there is a meaning of ownership ( the boy’s apple/ the boys’ apples) then you need an apostrophe. See http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/. But don’t use apostrophe s for normal plurals!!!]
*Having these two side by side in the Gallery really shows the contrast of perspective the two artists view this event to be.= Having these two side by side in the Gallery really shows the contrast of perspective between the way the two artists view this event .
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