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LEH 355 H02W 50910
Assignment
DUE 2/15 Picture interpretation
The
picture that I choose is called “"The Eclipse of the Sun". The author name is
George Grosz. He was born in Germany in 1893. Grosz
began his studying by attending a weekly drawing class. Later, to develop his skills,
he stated drawing drinking and battle scenes. He also studied at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. And Berlin College
of Arts and Crafts. In November 1914 Grosz volunteered
for military service and was given a discharge after hospitalization for
sinusitis in 1915. Around 1920s, his rename was widespread
in Berlin because was his caricature of drawings Berlin was perfect and nice. He became a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during
the Weimar Republic before he immigrated
to the United States in 1933 with his family. Grosz became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1938, and settle down his residence at Bayside, New
York. He taught at the Art Students League
intermittently until 1955. After, he to return to Berlin, where he died on July
6, 1959 from
falling down a flight of stairs after a night of drinking.
“"The Eclipse
of the Sun" was realized
in 1926.
I choose this painting because it was realized in Germany and it is
an Oil on canvas painting with dimension 81-5/8 x 71-7/8 in and it is related
to our topic in class: Nihilism. George Grosz was a team of the new objectivity: he wants by objectivity to be honest
and realist: display things "as they really are" instead of
displaying them the way you want. This
painting is full of symbols and can be interpret different ways.
According to me, Eclipse of the Sun design a world where power and greed are above everything.
People have tendency to do some bad thing to move on. On the picture, we can
see the sun who symbolized life with a dollar sign that symbolize money. Money
because of greed: the desire to be wealthy, prosperous and be known everywhere.
We saw also on this painting in the back of the table, two men, one wear like a
leader uniform is sit down and the other one is whispering in his ear.
The one with the uniform seem to be a boss and the one whispering a maid or
bodyguard who has to follow his boss instruction to get compensated monthly by
money. Around the table, there are other men which I think some of them are good
and some of them no. The blind donkey on the table is
synonym of ignorance: people because of money or sometimes because they do not
have a choice follow their leader blindly even the leader is in a wrong track
and they know it. The sword with blood on the table means submission: if
you do not respect the leader order, you will paid the inconvenient. On the
bottom right hand of the painting, we can see someone imprisoned to say that weak
sometimes people can be trapped by rich people if they do not follow their
orders.
In conclusion, George Grosz design the
Eclipse of the Sun to develop the theme of greed, inequality, power and
corruption.
Many a few leaders possess the leadership quality
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