The Raft Of Medusa

It is the most popular work of Theodore Gericault in 19th century painting. This painting emphasize romanticism and political inspire painting. A large painting or life-size painting that describe a situation from consequence in ruined of the shore in the coast of today's Mairitania on 1816. This painting interpret the situation of the people that build a raft and died. The survivors resist and experience hunger and thirsty , bit by bit deliver their life from their death. They fight for each other even they are companions and comrades , the weakest will die . The structure of the painting build up into different parts. The first one is the group of people of dead body that aligned horizontally and figures /objects represent the survivor's emotion that hopeless that rise into the highest level and mirror their suffering . A rescue ship is in the middle figure waves.
Practises the sketches that he will use for his painting. He ask for the survivors to illustrate the scale model of the raft and ask question to the sequence of happening in the raft.And even the characteristics or the texture of the skin of dead body , he try to see the actual body to see the color that he saw by his own eye to view out the event. This will become the evidences to portray the Raft of Medusa restored the traditions and mirror the true scene in the raft. Event of human and political aspects greatly interested by Gericault. This painting that occur problems , tragedy and issues