Wednesday, February 21, 2007
"Weeping Woman" 1937
What feeling this painting evokes! Doesn't it just make you want to cry? Look at the agony in her eyes! The emotional intensity is heightened by the acid green and purple. Painted just months after Guernica, one of the most emotionally stirring murals in history, this painting excellently portrays the grief Picasso was going through at the time.
Jessica 9:10 AM
10 Comments:
That painting is so disgusting it actually makes me feel better. This one, on the other hand, is pretty cool.
That's mildly cool. who's it by?
No clue. I just googled weeping woman to find a better image.
heya,
i tell ya, blog serfing is fun. You can find all sorts of peoples blog. I just had a flash back of when we went to 6 flags w/ you and a bunch of other people. Remember? 'twas fun stuff.
that picture is kinda... wow. Well hope collage is treeten' ya well. take care- see ya someday.
~Tamara B
i tell ya, blog serfing is fun. You can find all sorts of peoples blog. I just had a flash back of when we went to 6 flags w/ you and a bunch of other people. Remember? 'twas fun stuff.
that picture is kinda... wow. Well hope collage is treeten' ya well. take care- see ya someday.
~Tamara B
The only good thing I can say about that painting is that is shows grief without Christ. It's not a pretty thing.
Horrendous tragedy!
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703010433
:-P
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703010433
:-P
oh, my, that's awful!
That picture looks like something my third grade student could draw...no offense to the artist.
Mia
Mia
Mia, I don't think your third grade students could possibly put so much feeling into a picture, and they probably wouldn't know enough about color to be able to create the highly effective color scheme in this paining. However, I would be quite stoked to see some of their work any way! :-)
As a chemist I have encountered various and sundry acids, and as of yet none of them was green, nor the shade of green you describe as "acid green." Most acids are colorless, transparent solutions that are visually indistinguishable from water (unless it is a "fuming" acid, at which concentration noxious, acrid vapors can be seen (and smelt) wafting off the solution).
I suppose if you want to consider Lewis acids (which technically are acids, but not in the typical sense) your green is roughly the shade of chlorine gas; but even though chlorine is a Lewis acid, when you encounter it you're usually more worried about it being a poison, asphyxiant, or combustion accelerant, than being an acid.
I think "vomit green" would be a better description.
I suppose if you want to consider Lewis acids (which technically are acids, but not in the typical sense) your green is roughly the shade of chlorine gas; but even though chlorine is a Lewis acid, when you encounter it you're usually more worried about it being a poison, asphyxiant, or combustion accelerant, than being an acid.
I think "vomit green" would be a better description.