So, me and my friend Abigail went to the MET over the break (it was Monday) to see all the mourning outfits and all the pretty paintings, jewels, furniture, and stuff. We walked through the European painting because that's always fun.
Anyway, I saw a bunch of really pretty painting that I liked.
Diana and Cupid by Pompeo Batoni
was really captivating, but my favorites were
The Storm and
Springtime by Pierre-Auguste Cot. They were so enchanting, the colors so in sync with each other. In
Springtime the dark greens offset the pale bodies of the girl. In
The Storm they almost melt into the background, as the tans of the ground and their skin blend so beautifully. i found in
Diana and Cupid the red cloth covering Diana's lower half was bright and vivid in comparison to Diana's pale skin that glows white.
Abigail and I sat there for ~30 mins just looking at it's magnificence. I like romantisim era painting because it was the end of beautiful art that tricked one into thinking the world wasn't a horrible place with bleak colors *cough* realism *cough*. In addition I despise those paintings with a dot in the middle of the canvas that goes for upwards of $1million.
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| Springtime |
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| The Storm |
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| Diana and Cupid |
Something that I noticed about these paintings was how the clothing or lack there of seem central to the piece itself. In the Springtime piece, the person in red can be seen as mildly okay but the person in white clothes seem to be more translucent as the skin can be seen through the cloth. In the piece called "The Storm" which seems to be chronologically after the former piece, the person in red has taken off their garment running in their undergarments while the person in white skin is clearly visible under their garment.
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