Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus

The The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus by Wilhelm Von Kaulbach is a moving picture that clearly shows many Romanticist aspects. Romanticism is a movement in literature, music, and the visual arts that
reacted to the order imposed by the Enlightenment. Some of the clearly shown aspects of Romanticism ares are emotion , Irrationality, Grotesque Horrific, and Importance of individual.

This painting clearly shows grotesque, and Importance of individual aspects. The painter shows Grotesque aspects by showing death and injured people laying on the ground and being dragged. The people surrounded in the green squares are examples of grotesque aspects. The painter of this piece used lighter colors to really brighten up the certain figures in the painting as to draw our eyes to them. For example the man in the center of the painting with the red circle around him. The painter emphasized him to show his importance.

This painting also clearly shows the aspects emotion, and irrationality. The painter shows the emotional aspect by showing peoples facial expression and their body language. In the painting the women surrounded by the blue arrows are examples of the aspect emotion. Wilhelm Von Kaulbach shows irrationality by showing angels swooping in from heaven. In the painting the angels and the heavens are surrounded by a white square.

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