The Son of Man At Eternity 's Gate American Gothic

Rene Margritte, 1964 Vincent Van Gogh, 1890 Grant Wood, 1930

Untitled Untitled
Mark Rothko, 1970 Wassily Kadinsky, 1910

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Artwork
The Son of Man Man The man is hiding his He’s hiding his true Magritte said that the
Rene Margritte, identity by the use of identify or face. painting just shows us
1964 the fruit. about humanity. He
says that everything
we see hides some
other thing yet we
still want to see what
is hidden by what we
see. There is always
some sort of interest
 in what is hidden and
what the visible does
not show us. This
brings about some
sort of conflict
between the visible
that is present and
the visible that is
hidden.
At Eternity’s Gate Man He’s depressed and The old man was close to It demonstrates that
Vincent Van Gogh, feeling sad his end. When he found even in his deepest
1890 out about this he felt moments of sorrow
hopelessness, and and pain, Van Gogh
misery. clung to a faith in God
and eternity, which he
tried to express in his
work.
American Gothic Man and Woman They are strangers Pale facial expression A satirical comment
Grant Wood, and unfamiliarity on midwesterners out
1930 between the two person of step with a
in the painting. I can no modernizing world.
longer have further Yet Wood intended it
explanation. to convey a positive
image of rural
American values,
offering a vision of
reassurance at the
beginning of the Great
Depression.
Untitled Nonrepresentational Horizontal shapes over I think it is a painting of Mark Rothko sought
Mark Rothko, other his emotion, anger, to make paintings
1970 wrath, fury, because of that would bring
the color red. people to tears. “I'm
interested only in
expressing basic
human emotions—
tragedy, ecstasy,
doom, and so on,” he
declared. “And the
fact that a lot of
people break down
and cry when
confronted with my
pictures shows that I
can communicate
those basic human
emotions
Untitled Nonrepresentational Random line, shapes, I think this painting is He sought to
Wassily Kadinsky, colors also a expression of the convey profound
1910 painter. Because of the spirituality and the
use of the bright colors depth of human
they show a lot of emotion through a
emotions. universal visual
language of abstract
forms and colors that
transcended cultural
and physical
boundaries.