Art Gallery

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I am so tired,  today have been walking around so much
my feet are killing me!
Had to meet with my two buddies at the Art Gallery
again!
Yes, again, I did not mind it so badly, but it was a little annoying when
trying to catch a bus, and stand at the bus stop for a good 30 minutes
for just 3 buses to come that are packed out so do not even stop.

Anyhow, we had to go to the art gallery for looking at two painting at least
with a 100 years differnce between them. Me and my friends picked different paintings.
I wrote about three paintings because I liked them all. We were looking at
the paintings in so much detail, zooming into paintings and taking pictures for our research
and analysis.
The three paintings I chose were...
"The Death of Chatterton" which displays a real event of a young men
17 years old who committed suicide, his name Thomas Chatterton. He was a forger and a poet.
The painter is Henry Wallis, who painted it in 1855-1856.
I liked the painting because of the use of colour and how it is painted.
The face no-one would have thought when looking at it, that the young men is dead,
but is sleeping soundly instead. So it was interesting how the man who lies on
his scruffy bed, exposing the pale white skin with the bright red hair and trousers and white shirt.
To make this painting, he had to use a model who was George Meredith, afamous young novelist and poet.

 

The second painting I liked was

"Hope Comforting Love in Bondage" which was painted by Sidney Harold Meteyard in 1901.
His work was based on flowers, imagination and myths.
I liked that image because it had vibrant colours, the red, gold and greens, made it look quiet interesting.
Also the winged young man facial expression were interesting with its wings being
entwined in roses and thorns. It kind of showed a lot of love, and the pain involved in loving.

 

 The third painting was called

"L'Aurore et la Nuit (Dawn and the Night)"
The painter Henri Fantin Latour, who painted mythological and allegorcial subjects.
He painted Dawn and the Night in 1894.
I liked the painting because the brush strockes are dynamic and have

a good effect with the painting itself. The female figures and the angels cannot be seen clearly from clsoe up, but can be viewed nicely while standing away a little bit.

Well it was a long day. But it also was fun to learn about the images and seeing them close up.