The Elephant From The Temptation Of Saint Anthony
Comparison Essay
The two artworks that are being compared and contrasted are Elephant from the Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali and Christ on a Cross by Georges Rouault. Christ on a Cross depicts, as it title alludes to, Christ being hung on a cross; he is painted in a humbled but proud manor painted in an expressionist style. The Elephant from the Temptation of Saint Anthony portraits metaphorical images of strength, beauty, morality, and varying religions, trying to enter society, but Christ is doing all in his power to repress these ideals. The painters express their views on change in religion. The time frames of the two movements are similar, in fact they overlap. Surrealism took place roughly from 1920-1940 where expressionism …show more content…
Abstract expressionist works value their ideas more than the physical properties of their works. While their work is still visually pleasing it is not as structured as other movements, the proportions of people and the gradient of shading are much less biologically correct (they don’t look real). Surrealism is quite similar to abstract expressionism in the sense that most topics that surrealists paint are fictional, but the meaning behind the work is very profound. While both of the two styles are interesting it takes much more skill to be able to paint in a surrealist manor. The Elephant from the Temptation of Saint Anthony would be a far harder piece to recreate because of its attention to detail and shading gradient. Both of the two works have strong bold ideas about Christ which are amplified by the style they are painted in. Both artworks neglect the proper body composition in order to allow their ideas to flourish. In George Rouault’s Christ on a Cross the light reflecting the anatomy of the characters is poorly defined and in Salvador Dali’s Elephant from the Temptation of Saint Anthony the legs of the animals are far too long and narrow. Both of these discrepancies can be redeemed by the thought process of the work. George Rouault was telling the story of Christ and for that reason didn’t need perfection. Salvador Dali painted the legs of the horses narrower to emphasis that there were large new ideals coming into society that couldn’t be maintained or supportive. It is clear to see in both styles that religion is prominent in both time periods and benefits equally from both artworks despite the fact that the surrealist work would be far more challenging to
The two artworks that are being compared and contrasted are Elephant from the Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali and Christ on a Cross by Georges Rouault. Christ on a Cross depicts, as it title alludes to, Christ being hung on a cross; he is painted in a humbled but proud manor painted in an expressionist style. The Elephant from the Temptation of Saint Anthony portraits metaphorical images of strength, beauty, morality, and varying religions, trying to enter society, but Christ is doing all in his power to repress these ideals. The painters express their views on change in religion. The time frames of the two movements are similar, in fact they overlap. Surrealism took place roughly from 1920-1940 where expressionism …show more content…
Abstract expressionist works value their ideas more than the physical properties of their works. While their work is still visually pleasing it is not as structured as other movements, the proportions of people and the gradient of shading are much less biologically correct (they don’t look real). Surrealism is quite similar to abstract expressionism in the sense that most topics that surrealists paint are fictional, but the meaning behind the work is very profound. While both of the two styles are interesting it takes much more skill to be able to paint in a surrealist manor. The Elephant from the Temptation of Saint Anthony would be a far harder piece to recreate because of its attention to detail and shading gradient. Both of the two works have strong bold ideas about Christ which are amplified by the style they are painted in. Both artworks neglect the proper body composition in order to allow their ideas to flourish. In George Rouault’s Christ on a Cross the light reflecting the anatomy of the characters is poorly defined and in Salvador Dali’s Elephant from the Temptation of Saint Anthony the legs of the animals are far too long and narrow. Both of these discrepancies can be redeemed by the thought process of the work. George Rouault was telling the story of Christ and for that reason didn’t need perfection. Salvador Dali painted the legs of the horses narrower to emphasis that there were large new ideals coming into society that couldn’t be maintained or supportive. It is clear to see in both styles that religion is prominent in both time periods and benefits equally from both artworks despite the fact that the surrealist work would be far more challenging to