The beauty of Art

When someone hears the word art one artist that always comes to the mind is Michelangelo. He is said to be the best documented artist of the 16th Century. That is an outstanding honor to be considered as he really took his talent as far as he could. Two of his most famous pieces "the scenes from Genesis" and "The last judgment" are both known as two of the most influential pieces of art of all time in Western art. Both of these amazing pieces were created by him before he was thirty years old. One of Michelangelo's paintings I found very meaningful and interesting was his "Pieta". The Pieta portrays Jesus lying across his mother Mary's lap after his Crucifixion. This statue was created for a Cardinal Jean de Billheres for his funeral monument, but ended up being moved to where it is now in the St. Peter Basilica in the Vatican City. This statue is very interesting in which the length of Mary drapery takes up half the statue under Jesus. That was probably easier to create in only having to carve out drapery instead of having to go into detail on her legs. This statue is also out of proportion with Mary being noticeably bigger than Jesus. However, I have to give credit to Michelangelo it was probably not easy to create a full length man in her arms.

" Saturn Devouring his Son"

“Saturn Devouring his Son" which was painted by a Spanish artist Francisco Goya. This painting shows a very angry man ripping his baby's arm off. from the picture we can already notice that the baby's head is already completely off as is his right arm. The painting is depicted from a Greek myth of Titan Cronus who is afraid of his kids trying to overtake him and take his power he in turn decides to eat every one of his children upon their birth. It had been foretold that one of his sons would overthrow him just as he did to his father. It was known that this painting was one of six paintings that were put in his living room as decoration. Looking at this picture there is not a lot of color throughout this picture. The color that is most recognized is the blood coming off the baby's body along with its pale skin and Saturn’s knuckles. The Saturn's eyes also bulge out in a rage of madness as is his grip that he has on the baby making sure it cannot go anywhere. Even though I believe it is hard to go somewhere when you are without an arm or a head. Upon Saturn's last sons birth his wife hid him on an island and put a stone in a blanket in his place which in turn deceived Saturn.      

Conner