Healing Blind Bartimaeus Analysis
Blind Beggar I am writing my paper over El-Greco’s Oil painting Healing Blind Bartimaeus, a beautiful painting based upon Mark 10:46-47. The biblical passage for this painting shows how close you can be to God without ever meeting him. The artist has displayed the passage in this painting in so many little details. The painting is so exquisite; it shows Jesus’ gracefulness in such an intricate way. In the context of Mark 10:46-47, Jesus shows reward to a man’s faith. Jesus does this by giving a begging man by the name of Bartimaeus, his eyesight back. A fact that is very important in this passage is that: a belief that the Jews carried was that blindness was a punishment from God for a sin committed by the blind person. Bartimaeus
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When I looked closer I noticed the other details and how in depth the photo got. I question why the photo isn’t finished, that is a great mystery. Besides the unfinished parts of the piece, I like the way El Greco set the tone in the photo with the light sky and the beautiful clothing the people are wearing. The artist understood the passage really well and I love the way he explained the passage so deeply with the details. El Greco’s painting portrays Mark 10:46-47 very well. After looking at the painting, it made me notice the other people’s reactions more than I did just reading the passage. I feel that the artist could have done a better job of painting the crowd and their actions; I would have thought more emotions from the crowd. I also think that El Greco could have made the people and their reactions more clear to me; it is hard to see what any of the people on the left side are doing. Overall, I found the painting by El Greco very convoluted but very beautiful because of its strong detail and its intricate use of colors to define the theme. El Greco definitely made me look more into all of the details from the passage that I passed over when first reading Mark 10:46-47. Even though I felt like he could have done a few things better and
When I looked closer I noticed the other details and how in depth the photo got. I question why the photo isn’t finished, that is a great mystery. Besides the unfinished parts of the piece, I like the way El Greco set the tone in the photo with the light sky and the beautiful clothing the people are wearing. The artist understood the passage really well and I love the way he explained the passage so deeply with the details. El Greco’s painting portrays Mark 10:46-47 very well. After looking at the painting, it made me notice the other people’s reactions more than I did just reading the passage. I feel that the artist could have done a better job of painting the crowd and their actions; I would have thought more emotions from the crowd. I also think that El Greco could have made the people and their reactions more clear to me; it is hard to see what any of the people on the left side are doing. Overall, I found the painting by El Greco very convoluted but very beautiful because of its strong detail and its intricate use of colors to define the theme. El Greco definitely made me look more into all of the details from the passage that I passed over when first reading Mark 10:46-47. Even though I felt like he could have done a few things better and