Even now i do not fully understand why the artist chose to do this but i belive it was to illustrate how peaceful death can be. It seems to me that the artist didn't want to focus on the detail of the incident in the picture but more the calming conclusion that could be death. In addition to this, the idea that heaven is in the sky and that's where you go to when you die (if you're lucky and faithful =P) and so by making the majority of the painting the sky - he is suggesting that a lot of people died here. A simple idea - executed brilliantly.
Monday, 13 September 2010
Silence
Another painting that we did not study as a class at the gallery but one that i was particularly drawn to was by Egbert Van der Pol. The picture showed death and destruction among a town or village however two thirds of the image is a cloudy, smokey sky. 
Even now i do not fully understand why the artist chose to do this but i belive it was to illustrate how peaceful death can be. It seems to me that the artist didn't want to focus on the detail of the incident in the picture but more the calming conclusion that could be death. In addition to this, the idea that heaven is in the sky and that's where you go to when you die (if you're lucky and faithful =P) and so by making the majority of the painting the sky - he is suggesting that a lot of people died here. A simple idea - executed brilliantly.
Even now i do not fully understand why the artist chose to do this but i belive it was to illustrate how peaceful death can be. It seems to me that the artist didn't want to focus on the detail of the incident in the picture but more the calming conclusion that could be death. In addition to this, the idea that heaven is in the sky and that's where you go to when you die (if you're lucky and faithful =P) and so by making the majority of the painting the sky - he is suggesting that a lot of people died here. A simple idea - executed brilliantly.
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