Jhonas Jose VC23 Figure Drawing II

Block Z Final Plate

The Banishment from the Garden of Eden

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. 21 The Lord God
made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has
now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and
take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the
Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he
placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to
guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 3:20-24

The final plate for Figure Drawing class theme was from the bible verse Genesis 3:20-24, The
Banishment from the Garden of Eden. This verse foretells the faith of Adam and Eve facing their
consequence for eating the forbidden fruit. It was a picture full of sorrow, pain, fear, confusion, and regret
as Adam and Eve were left with no choice but to live the mistakes they made and suffer as a mortal being.
God made sure to show his wrath and the consequence of their betrayal by sending an angel with a
flawing sword to guide them to leave the Garden of Eden.

In this work I want to paint the vulnerability and sorrow that Eve and Adam faced as they left Garden of
Eden. Eve rendered as a helpless mortal on her weakest point asking for forgiveness that will never be
grant as she faced the judgement of God. Adam painted with regret and shame which he holds for
eternity. The Angel, seen as a holy figure leading Eve and Adam to suffer through the sin they committed
as they leave Garden of Eden.
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, Benjamin West (1791) The Remorse of Orestes, William Adolphe Bouguereau (1862)

took reference from the painting, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, Benjamin West (1791)
and The Remorse of Orestes, William Adolphe Bouguereau (1862) as the perfect model for my depiction
of Adam in the painting. These two references encapsulate the mood that the artist wants to portray to its
viewer which is the shame and regret of Adam and Eve after eating the forbidden fruit.

DESDÉMONE, Alexandre Cabanel Girl in Grey, Louis le Brrocguy

While for Eve I used DESDÉMONE, Alexandre Cabanel as my main reference on how I want to capture
Eve’s emotion and louis le brocquy’s girl in grey for the lower part of the body.
The Expulsion of Adam and Even from paradise, Eugene Delacroix Adam and Eve Expelled from Eden, William Blake Richmond

For the Angel and the composition of the work I took inspiration on Eugene Delacroix work’s
interpretation of The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise and William Blake Richmond’s Adam
and Eve Expelled from Eden. The composition show visual hierarchy by the arrangement being the angel
on the top part of the painting showing it’s holy figure and a symbol of authority among the two, Adam in
the middle part being the second one to disobey God’s command and being at fault for his partner’s
action, Eve sitting on the grass and at the lower part of the composition, she was the tempted one to
commit the forbidden rule, a testament that there is no perfect god-like figure ever created.
I want the color to illustrate the division of the divine, and the mortals, and to feel the bountiful green
turns gloomy as they are being casted out of the paradise.