StM: surrealist painting

Thursday, December 3, 2009

surrealist painting

4 comments:

xXJeffreyXx said...: i think that the artist is trying to convey his/her discomfort with death, and the life leaving his/her body(the white cloth falling off the coffin).; December 3, 2009 at 1:08 PM
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Robert Cawley said...: It's really cool how the coffin is set up as though the woman were sitting there.; December 6, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Jessica Deckard said...: It is also really interesting that Robert assumes it is a woman. I wonder why? The fabric is, I think, a funeral shroud, and not a dress.

Could the reason be that in art, figures who lie supine and are there to be seen by the viewer are typically women? Is there a passivity to the attitude of the coffin that implies a female character?; December 7, 2009 at 12:10 PM

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