Compare And Contrast Gauguin And The Yellow Christ

From the period of Renaissance art to the Impressionism, there are many art works related to the religious especially about Christian. Simultaneously, there are many paintings draw on Jesus Christ and related to his birth, crucifixion and resurrection. An Italian painter who call Giotto di Bondone creates the art work call “The Crucifixion” at 1312. He is one of the famous contributor to the art works at the period of Renaissance. The another art works would be discussing in this paper is call “The Yellow Christ” which painted by Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin at 1889. Paul Gauguin is a French artist paint with post-impressionism. To compare with the similarity and differences, the major themes of the two works of art by Gauguin and Giotto are similar
It is going to say the meaning of the work of arts cannot be directly find with the images show in the drawing. The interpretation of iconological meaning must about the senses of literal or the ideological meaning in our understanding culture. Also, there are including meaning in some image or symbols depicted in the drawings which is not easy to find. Refer to the figure 1, the iconographic meaning of Giotto’s The Crucifixion is presenting the Jesus Christ was crucified for the sin of the world. In the center of the painting, Christ’s wounds and naked bleeding body make a contrast to a group of grieving women. So, the outcome of the iconological interpretation is Jesus Christ bears the suffering and death when he was crucified. Jesus Christ is full of power. For the figure 2, the second level meaning in iconographical of Gauguin’s Yellow Christ is the celebration of Christ’s resurrection which Jesus Christ on the cross make a contrast with three women are praying near the cross. In the background
The terms of intertextual neutralization are the idea that a text “taken from other text, intersect and neutralize one another” (Kristeva, 1980, p.36). The creation of the new work of art will neutralize the matrix one in different motifs or images. John Berger (1972) points that, “An image is a sight which has been recreated or reproduced” (p.9). The image of Jesus is a discoursed image. The allegorical image of Jesus was changed by different understanding of culture. The idea of the figure of Jesus understanding by human is dealing with the description from Bible or some painting about Christianity before in the period between renaissance art until today. The image of Jesus is one of the intertextual image affected by different human’s culture. Berger also claims that “we never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves” (ibid). Therefore, refer to the painting of Yellow Christ, the image of that Jesus on cross with yellow skin tone is the understanding of Gauguin by his own culture. There can be also explained with Berger ideas on all of the images are made by human and the image sometimes affected by the language or discourse (Berger, 1972). For the difference between