For the main reception room I would choose a scene from the bible e.g. a scene where Christ is involved to show the visitor the presents of the son of god in my home, to show the strength and the power of the church as in – rising from the dead. I would probably also choose a scene that would reflect my own beliefs in a way that would show my dedication to religion and Christianity and how much I honour and respect God and his followers; a scene that would maybe show some form of “brutality” or something that can be compared to Caravaggio’s “The Flagellation of Christ”. What would also be important for me would be the choose of colour and the use of darker colours to impress visitors with the strength of the painting, not showing any background but black makes it also look much more other worldly. For my study I would rather choose a painting to be displayed that shows a peaceful scene from the bible, a loving image as it would be my own personal room for “retreating” from the world and concentrating on my work. I would make sure that the painting that would hang on the walls of my study would add to the warm atmosphere of the room, soft colours, diffusing light maybe a landscape in the background of the scene that is shown. I would make sure that there aren’t any nude women or men to see but more of the big coming together of different saints and important (church) people of the time that I would live in. For my study I would rather choose a painting from Ruben’s for example the painting “The Miracles of St. Francis Xavier” (from 1616-17). I would want the feeling of miracles might actually happen so I would like a setting that shows a huge crowd and some kind of connection to heaven, God, or relating to a story from the New Testament.
This exercise is very difficult. I don’t know why but I can’t really get the hang of it. I am not sure if this is what they are asking for and I can’t make a brief between 500 and 1.000 words, all I have to say can be seen above and I am not sure whether this fits the criteria of this exercise or not.
Now I am going to complete the reading part for the second project.
Notes about Rembrandt and Velazquez compared to Ruben:
- Theme of Rubens painting display more of religious fervour (p.595, Honour&Fleming, A World History of Art, Lauren King Publishing, London, 2009)
- Rembrandt shows more spiritual rather than physical healing as Rubens did
- Velazquez and Rembrandt interpreted scenes from the bible but weren’t religious painters like Rubens
No comments:
Post a Comment