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The Temptation Of St. Anthony
Exploring the painting and drawing inspiration for the pattern

I chose a painting called The temptation of Saint Anthony (1510-1515) by Matthias Grunewald. The painting is a third wing of Isenheim altarpiece, best known piece of art by Matthias Grunewald and Nikolaus Hagenauer. Matthias Grunewald was a German Renaissance painter who differed from painters in his time as he ignored classical renaissance style by continuing to use expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century. The painting struck me in color the most; the contrast between the pastels like colors in the sky vs the richness in color of the earthly world.
The temptation of St. Anthony is an often-repeated subject in history of art and literature; a bibli-cal myth concerning the supernatural temptation faced by Saint Anthony in the Egyptian desert. St. Anthony was tempted by the earthly desires who, are presented as devils and demons. Grunewald distorts the figures to intensify the violence and aggression that took place during the temptation. The dynamics and …show more content…
Buddhist metrology also had a similar myth. Buddha meditates under the Bodhi tree be-fore attaining Enlightenment. During his meditation, he is tempted by the demon Mara and ac-companying visions of evil and lust. Around the tree is a circle that represents “The Buddha” - the state of mind in which one is safe from temptation. A single tile is split into two; the god side and the devil side, the light and the dark. The softer ornament in my pattern represent the light and the straight lines ornament represent the darkness. I chose four colors, to not make it too overwhelming as the pattern creates its own power. My chosen colors are black, dark green, yellow ochre and steal blue. The yellow an the blue are my chosen opposing colors as they also give a association with the opposing sun and moon
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