Art Comparison Analysis

Holloway, Enejor Art Appreciation- James November 2012 Visual Analysis 13. 9 Peter Paul Rubens The abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus is a European characterisation, involving sexual erotica and cultural indication of masculinity and femininity. The icons imagery consists of muddy skies, shimmering and a variety of textures to add to the rich surface and the sensual color harmonies. All checks are placed in a diamond shape, suggesting ongoing movement. On the left, dark tones act as a botch up to the lighter areas in the center.Textures such as armor, satin, flesh, and hair, are all painted in a material way. The painting specifies what was considered masculine and feminine in Flanders, 1617, and the type of roles women and men played, which is where the texture and elements of the painting become authorised because of the way the women is painted in the piece, she is displayed as voluptuous, soft and fleshy looking which was considered sexually attractive and a sign of health and wealth.The statement The battle of the sexes is a necessity of nature, is a statement of symbolism associated with this painting The women were a lot more pale than the men of this time hinting that they probably stayed indoors and the men on the other tump over who mainly participated in outdoor activity were darker skinned, also muscular. The painting illustrates, through the figures positioning, that women learned to be helpless, which is why in the painting they are sort of throwing their arms up in a surrendering manner, not really showing much resistance to them men who display expressions of aspiration and unemotional. 3. 10 Jacques-Louis David Oath of the Horatii is a painting, created in France 1784, that represents and expresses early history of past capital of Italy in which terce brothers vow to represent the Roman Army, Their duty and vow to the army characterizes qualities of courage and patriotism, which in early ancient Rome, and early history as whole , was a necessity of a mans life. The architecture and unsullied elements form the neoclassicism which was a evival of Greek and Roman aesthetics and is associated with masculinity and revolution On the other hand their sisters and wives are to the right of the painting are slumped down in sorrow of the expectance of decease that comes with war. This painting expresses that heroic actions were a mark of masculinity, reinforced by the womens passivity. The masculinity in this painting is shown by the moment of male bonding, in the face of danger as the three brothers come together, to a lower place the grace of their fathers set patriotic virtues for them, willing to for others.The brothers look up at the swords as there are looking at their job, their obligation and honor as the womens obligation and duty is concerning of the children. Both of these paintings reflect the reality of gender roles played in a condition time setting, the authors reveal the roles in a natural subtle w ay that cultures of Europe and ancient Rome believe in, in which the figures in the paintings illustrate a story of masculinity and femininity by advertisement their both genders behavior and way of being towards each other and customs of society.