Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus발음듣기
Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus
(piano music) Woman: We're in Louvre and we're looking at Delacroix's the Death of Sardanapalus, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1827.발음듣기
Man: This is the height of romantic painting, and in fact its story comes from a romantic poet, Lord Byron, and it's the story of the Sysyrian King Sardanapalus who is being vanquished in battle but rather than surrender, has decided not only to kill himself, he's going to destroy everything that he finds pleasure in, the women, his slaves, all of his ornament, all of his treasure will be burned.발음듣기
Woman: So he sits high up on that bed propping his head up, looking with supreme indifference at the end of the lives of the women in his life, the end of all his beautiful possessions.발음듣기
Man: So this is a painting that is about corruption and it is the antithesis of the nobility of David and of the neoclassical tradition that came before romanticism.발음듣기
Woman: If you think back to neoclassical paintings with their very rigorous construction of space, where you can really clearly see where everything is in relationship to everything else.발음듣기
All of the king's really luxurious possessions, gold and jewels and horses, and the space isn't so much constructed as filled up.발음듣기
Man: And it feels like everything in it, all of the bodies, the horses, the objects, they're all flames themselves.발음듣기
Recalling the flame that are about to be there, licking up in this serpentine curvilinear forms.발음듣기
Look at one the arms of the harp that's in the bottom middle, or the women themselves, these Arabasks.발음듣기
All of these things are snakelike and serpentine as if they themselves are the flames that are referenced.발음듣기
Woman: So there is all of this sense of writhing movement but the king at the top who sits very still and watches with that corrupt gaze, on this bed that is foreshortened, and so we have this idea of everything spilling down into our space, very much the artist's intention to engage the viewer and to appeal to our emotions.발음듣기
This is a scene of death and destruction that is happening as close as possible to the viewer's space.발음듣기
Man: This must have been such a huge shock to a public that was used to looking at the clarity and precision of geometry.발음듣기
All of this violence, all of this luxury, is perfectly suited to Delacroix's signature use of brilliant color at least in contrast to the kind of modulation of color that the very subtly colored paintings that were traditional in the Salon.발음듣기
Woman: If you look at the flesh of the figures you don't see just that normal tonal modeling that we've come to expect in neoclassical paintings but we see figures where the shadows are greens and blues, and the highlights are oranges and golds.발음듣기
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