PAINTINGS ANALYSIS

Analysis Of The Paintings “Eliezer And Rebecca” and “The Hireling Shepherd”

How do the form and subject of each painting contribute to its meaning? In your answer, you should consider the following formal elements, in addition to discussing the subject, matter: composition, scale, pose, gesture, expression, colour, use of light, viewpoint. Subject Matter

Eliezer and Rebecca

This famous work of Poussin commissioned by Nicolas Lyon Pointel merchant who had asked the painter a painting of beautiful female figures. Chick chose this episode of the Old Testament where the servant of Isaac, Eliezer, and Rebecca offers to marry his master and offered him jewels as a token of the word of this, because it only has to propose to drink. The scene takes place as a frieze carved in the ancient, primarily allows the painter to describe the different reactions of young women around Rebecca at the well, while making them advantageous adopt poses that showcase their plastic as chaste draped in antique. He thus made the wish of the Sponsor and will also deliver an authentic psychological study of the human soul only the game looks and the subtle expressions portrayed. The faces of Rebecca and his twelve companions with various expressions are a pretext for Poussin to analyze the reactions to the election divine curiosity or emotional disorder, or jealousy (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2011).

The Hireling Shepherd

The Hireling Shepherd is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. It represents a shepherd neglecting his flock in favor of an attractive country girl to whom he shows a death's head hawk moth. The meaning of the image has been much debated (Bronkhurst, Judith, 2006, p. 45).

Composition

In “Eliezer and Rebecca”, each figure appears to have calculated its place, distant and yet close to its neighbour. In “the Hireling Shepherd”, the sheep are behind both the lovers, who are showing the love for each other (Hunt, 1851, p. 116). In both the paintings, the scene punctuated by numerous vertical insistent that the pace, punctuated by different pitchers, can be sometimes large, sometimes more pressing.

Scale

The painting by Poussin presented on a tremendous scale, on which the artist has shown a square-shaped non-landscapist view. The scale of the painting shows an environment where the expressions of the girls surrounding Rebecca are visible (Unglaub, Jonathan, 2006, p. 58). The painting shows a realistic view on its scale that is not only dimension-specific, but presents the view from squares angel representing the view of the whole scene. The painting by Hunt is also on a tremendous scale, in a square shaped landscape view. The two lovers shown involved with each other ignoring the sheep's in the background (Hunt, 1851, p. 116).

Pose

In “Eliezer and Rebecca”, the artist has played with the pose very well. He used different patterns of pose, both smooth and agitated, to show the various dimensions of the painting and its illustrations. In this painting, the painter drew fine pose to create a shattered image of different works of art (Unglaub, Jonathan, 2006, ...