![]() ![]() The captain hadīeen appointed by the King. Of anti-heroic painting that is still in the visual This is a composition by an artist making a statement, saying something. The bodies are clearly based on Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, on the studies of the nude figure that artists had to do at the Academy, this crescendo of this pyramid of figures. Naturalism, its realism, but in some ways it's not at all real. ![]() Studio in order to be able to accurately depict putrefying remains. Parts from the morgue, brought them back to this He created small stages with clay figures in order to organize the figures, and he even retrieved body He made a full scale model in his studio. Preserve the small amounts of supplies that remained. Reports that some people were intentionally killed to That happened was cannibalism, and there were even Murder, and of course the worst thing imaginable That the lifeboat was being slowed by the raft, the line was severed and the raft was allowed to drift out to sea on its own. But within only a few minutes when the captain realized The idea was that the raft would be towed. On this makeshift raft were primarily the Officers, the politicians, and those that ended up Who went into the lifeboats were those of higher status, the captain, the Of the lumber of the boat, to hold everybody that couldn'tįit into the lifeboats. The ship's carpenter to construct a raft from some There weren't enough lifeboats, and so the captain ordered When the ship ran aground in the open ocean. Was going to be the new Governor of Senegal was also on board. And it had about 400 people on board, many of them were settlers. ![]() Senegal from the British, as a French colony. Of a small fleet of ships that were trying to reclaim Painting, The Raft of the Medusa is referring to a ship called the Medusa. In the history of the sea, that had taken place The story behind the subject is one of the most gruesome Greek and Roman history, it's not a Biblical subject. Subjects that were generally ennobling, or that showed a heroic deed of some sort, and this painting could It's important to remember that large paintings were (jazzy piano music) - We're in the Louvre looking at Géricault's Raft of the Medusa. Early artists liked canvas because you could get big pieces without seams-the seams would be deadly to their art work. A seam would absorb paint and reflect light differently across the surface, and would not lie flat. The way you can tell if the painting is one piece is that there is no seam in the painting. Shipbuilding countries were the first to adapt to using sail cloth canvas as painting surfaces. Before canvas, they used wood panels, or walls, or ceilings. In fact, artists started painting on canvas because sail cloth was readily available and provided a strong surface if stretched over a frame. It is very easy to have a large loom for heroic pieces like ths. ![]() The looms were commonplace-remember that all the ships had to have huge sails because they ran on wind power, although the canvas for this would have been made on wider looms. There were great looms that were used for building (weaving) canvas. No, it would be one piece! You could immediately tell if pieces were joined together. ![]()
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