![]() ![]() He then sneaks into her room when she is sleeping, threatens her life by saying that he would kill her and a slave and say she was an adulterer, rapes her, and then leaves. In the story, Tarquin becomes obsessed with Lucretia after her husband describes her beauty and lets him watch her weaving with her maids. In this book, Livy tells the story about Tarquin and Lucretia. This image depicts a scene from Livy’s Book 1. This painting also uses tightly cropped composition to show the struggle between Lucretia and Tarquin. This can be seen in the gold of Tarquin’s clothes and the blue of Lucretia’s dress. It can also be identified as a Baroque painting because of its vibrant use of color. Chiaroscuro lighting is an extreme contrast between light and darkness. An indicator that this painting is from the Baroque period is its use of chiaroscuro lighting. This painting depicts the scene when Sextus Tarquininus rapes Lucretia, the wife of Tarquin’s fellow soldier and who later killed herself after being raped by Tarquin. Many of these painting achieved this effect by using dramatic lighting and tightly cropped compositions. The Baroque period in art was a period in art where artists depicted biblical and mythological stories and used dramatic realism and illusionism to engage the viewers looking at these paintings. This image is called Tarquin and Lucretia by Giuseppe Maria Crespi. ![]() Both these pieces of modern art break classical tradition and experiment with forms.Ĭitation: Crespi,Giuseppe Maria. He also plays with the illusion of depth by using the uneven, broken line to create the illusion of the silhouette of the woman. He also plays with color by using the red heel to emphasize the illusion of the silhouette. He does this by playing with form by using the Zebra stripe pattern to create the silhouette of a women. On the other hand, Emory’s goal with his painting is to create depth to create the silhouette of the woman and make her come off the background. Matisse reverses the figure-ground relationship by making the reverse lines the figures and making the red as the ground. Reverse Lines are the thin white lines that are actually the canvas and Matisse uses these lines to reverse the figure-ground relationship. Matisse’s use of bad linear perspective can be seen in the disconnected lines of the wall and the floor and in the chair and table, whose legs get farther apart as they go back rather than get smaller. Furthermore, Matisse uses bad linear perspective to flatten the canvas. Matisse aimed to flatten his painting rather than create depth. Matisse tries to use the color red to resist the illusion of depth. A difference is what they are trying to achieve with the illusion of depth. Emory plays with form and color by using the Zebra stripe pattern and the red heel to create and emphasize the silhouette of a women that stands out from the background. Matisse plays with the illusion of depth by using the color red, bad linear perspective, and reverse lines. A similarity that these paintings have is that both artist play with the illusion of depth by using color, lines, and form. The way Emory plays with depth reminded me of Henry Matisse’s The Red Studio created in 1911. In this painting, Emory creates the illusion of a female figure wearing red high heels on a zebra stripe pattern. In this last blog post, I am going to discuss a painting from Blake Emory’s Zebra Love Collection that I saw in a gallery in Chelsea.
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