A painting captures a single moment. Most of the time, the audience does not see what happens before and after the moment of the piece, but Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee is his depiction of Mark 4:35:39, a story that most children learn in Sunday School. Mark 4:35-36 tells the moments before the storm: “On that day, when evening had come, He told them, ‘Let’s cross over to the other side of the sea.’ So they left the crowd and took Him along since He was already in the boat. And other boats were with Him” (The Bible). Rembrandt fabricates the scene of verse 37 and 38: “A fierce windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But He was in the stern, sleeping …show more content…
For instance, he works with a variety of shades of black within the murky storm clouds. Raetta Parker notes, “Black is a mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown” and “denotes strength” (Parker). For this purpose, Rembrandt uses the storm to symbolize the hard times, or “storms”, in a person’s life. In this case, the strength of the storm is overpowering the boat, making it hard for the disciples to keep the boat from being destroyed and overtaken. By looking at the picture, the storm has cause one of the riggings to break free from the boat and tore the sail, not standing a chance against the strong winds the storm is throwing at them. Also, the dark colors of the overcast prevent the disciples from being able to see the shores. There is no place for the disciples to dock the boat until the storm passes by, stuck in the middle of the storm Comparing the painting to life’s challenges, people can often be broken emotionally or physically, whether it may be a death of a loved one or having to face a terminal illness. They can feel as if, like the disciples, all alone with nowhere to escape to safety. Whatever situation one may face, it can be overpowering and seems as if there is no hope in
I think the artist is able to communicate the bad condition of the ship and its crew is in. The mood of the work is scary and gloomy. The design and intensity of the waves, the changing weather, and the ships in the ocean seem to make the scene come alive. It really conveys a since of naturalism in the painting the way it depicts the environment around the ship.
Firstly, this storm came suddenly, as do most storms in our lives. Life can be good, as it was that day when Jesus had ministered to the faithful. As days went in the life of wandering preachers, it had been a good one. It wasn’t to last though. As Jesus Jesus told his disciples, that they must go to the other
The 1633 masterpiece The Storm on the Sea of Galilee was stolen in 1990, and it's never been found. If you enter the Boston Museum today all you'll see is eerie sight of an empty frame. This painting is based on the story of Jesus and his twelve disciples sailing on the sea of Galilee. Jesus goes down the back of the boat and decides to take a nap, but then a huge storm hits. One of the most intriguing aspects of this painting is that Rembrandt has painting himself on the boat. As if he is an extra disciple. He is not the guy vomiting over the side. He is actually the one holding onto the rope with one hand and his hat with the other as he looks over directly at us. Meanwhile the disciples go down the back of the boat to wake up Jesus. Why
I chose to study and analyze J.M.W. Turner’s Slave Ship for this project and found it to be very interesting. Immediately while looking at the piece you get a strong sense of emotion and drama that is being portrayed. There is a lot of depth and warmth in the colors that are used and wide swift brush strokes to create the images. The first image that caught my eye was of waves crashing on the left side of the painting. The white tips of the waves are very noticeable against the softer shades of the ocean. Behind the waves is a ship which is the next part of the painting that drew my attention. The ship seems to be caught in the rough waves of the sea and barely able to keep afloat. There is a glimmer of light from the sun peeking through
The color dark blue was used to paint the sky; Using the dark color for the sky gave the painting a dark and serious feeling emphasizing the betrayal. Judas’s robe was a bright yellow color, which points out the center and most important part of the painting. The painting had three dimensional space. The people are halfway in the frame, and the man that is being pulled on the left gives an illusion that there is more outside of the border of the painting. The layering or overlapping technique of the people painted over each other show space. The light and shadow created folds in the clothing, this gave it a natural and realistic feeling. The frame contained geometric patterns. The shapes used in the pattern were triangles and squares. On one side of the frame it used rhombuses to create a star shape with a circle in the
Nevertheless, the flag stands erect and flapping in the wind. On the right side of the piece, we view the exact magnitude of the storm through the “white wash” of the violent waves. Additionally, the sky to the right of the ship’s crow’s nest is lighter and hints of a sun trying to break through the lurking darkness. Despite the presence of other visual elements, what clearly connects is that the ocean, embellished and predominantly highlighted in the work, was Moran’s principal interest. However, the fact that something so fleeting as surging waves dominates the composition even to the visual expense and weight of an obviously colossal ship.
The image shows a sailing ship, it could be an optimistic view of the painter expressing their particular direction of their goals and how we make choices in life. Or goals that are merely drifting away because it is difficult to get what we want out of life at times. Also sailing away could be a form of independence and freedom were we wish to break free from the constraints of everything we do in our daily lives. sailing on stormy waters depicts the difficulty of our choices and that things might be tough going forward. Or simply the strong desire to change life symbolizing the positive changes of our
Being inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s illustrious painting Starry Night, Anne Sexton uses imagery, metaphor, and allusion to write the poem The Starry Night which indicates her not only shares the mental issue and suicide propensity with Vincent but also the deep desire for religion. Anne Sexton, a great female poet, is diagnosed with depression and gets hard mental hit due to the death of her aunt; thus, she attempts to suicide many times. Same as Vincent Van Gogh, Anne also expresses her feeling toward life and death in scene to release her gloominess. In her poem The Starry Night, she fully develops her inner thoughts on alienation and loneliness. First of all, Anne uses metaphor to describe the painting, pointing out her unique reflection to the painting and the mental creativity.
This painting, titled Above the Boat, depicts a scene from Part three Chapter two of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. This painting shows the dark, dreary, overcast sky looming over the patients’ boat. Specifically, it shows the part when Chief Bromden does not believe he is laughing with the group and instead feels as though he is floating about the boat looking down upon the patients. The gray sky is accompanied the rough ocean waves fading into black. Since Chief is retelling this story, the bottom of the painting fades from black into the scene o show how his memory is recounting the event. In the massive ocean, a small boat is drifting in the rapid waves, and a small silhouette of Chief can be viewed. Above the boat is Chief’s hallucination/spirit
In What Stands in a Storm, Kim Cross utilizes imagery, personification, and figurative language to powerfully depict the destructive force of nature and the bonding power of love. Many storms have destroyed lives, but the way that Cross describes these tornadoes, and the love that people use to get over the effects of the tornadoes; she makes it much more beautiful than most people could ever imagine a tornado being. Storms don't always just destroy lives, they can also bring people together. The reason she wrote this book was to inform people of the tragic effects of the April 27th tornadoes, she did not want the people who died to be forgotten.
The horizontal lines of the land represent calmness and te diagonal and vertical lines of the sea represents power and ever changing . There is a contrast with these two such as the sea is ever changing and the land that is hard slow to change. Next I looked at the shapes of the painting. With landscapes, such as this painting, there is organic shapes that show the chaos and never ending change of the ocean and storm that is pounding the land that is calm. I then looked at the contrast of the waves and land then the sky and storm. The waves are dark with the land being light with the opposite light above the dark waves and dark above the light land area. It makes it seem like the storm clouds are passing with the rising of the
The background of the picture is dark. The artist paints the trees using dark colors and jagged lines to show how scary the moment was for the slaves. The slaves are walking through water that is also dark and filled with rocks and sharp sticks. The background gives the painting the emotion that bad things were happening at this time.
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.
Red appears to dominate the painting and serves as an eye-catching color. The use of intensely saturated colors draws the attention to the front couple. Additionally, the red color plays with the mind of the onlooker without them thinking about it. It suggests deep passion, anger, and struggle. The artist intends to relay his feelings about the event to the viewer. His outlook consists of disgust towards the great depression that leaves many taken advantage of due to desperation.
When the Isenheim Altar is in phase one you see. On the left side of the painting you can see Gabriel the angel telling Mary she is pregnant. This is telling a story that is in the bible. For example in Luke 1:29-32 it says “29. Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid,Mary; you have found favor with God. 31. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus 32.”(Bible). The middle painting to the right shows the angels watching Marry give birth to baby Jesus. In the middle painting on the left side you can see Mary holding baby Jesus. In the painting on the right you see Jesus resurrected to heaven. This painting is telling a story that happened in the bible. For example, in “5. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6. He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7. ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” 8. Then they remembered his words”(KJV/AMP Parallel Bible). There was one last Phase of the paintings. The last