To start this off, I will begin with Caravaggio's "The Entombment of Christ" painting. I believe this work of art embody's a historical event because, obviously The Entombment of Christ is a kind of like a big deal. Enough with the sarcasm. Caravaggio wanted to depict his own version of the event. Clearly he wasn't there, but people such as Baglione & Bellori really admired this painting. This work of art was revolutionary, his depiction of this historical event can almost be accurate. The emotion on the people's faces, their actions & this painting is filled with so much detail, and you won't pick up on some things until you read more about this amazing painting.
"A Starry Night" By Van Gogh. One of my very own personal favorites. I believe this work of art embodies culture. This panting depicts Van Gogh's view from the outside of his "Sanitarium room" window at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. This painting is so beautiful it shows a part of southern France at night and I think this painting embodies culture, because of the way the buildings are structured, the houses, textures, & even the colors used in this painting. When I saw this work of art at MoMa it easily stood out amongst every other painting in the same room.
Last but not least in this paragraph I will be talking about the very, very, very famous. "Mona Lisa" By Leonardo da Vinci. This painting is a "half-length portrait of a woman", this work of art is probably thee most talked about painting, and/or well known painting in the world. I think this work of art easily falls in the category of the idea of individual identity. This painting is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini. Most of us who don't know much about the painting look at it and wonder things like, "who is she?", "what kind of person was she", "why did da Vinci paint her". That's what's wonderful about this work of art, it makes us think. It makes us have so many questions, and just stare at the painting noticing everything around it, absorbing everything.
All three of these works of art weren't randomly picked. These three paintings are some of my personal favorites. I haven't had the luxury to see some of these in person, but I really do genuinely love these paintings. One of the things I was torn with was that, I thought "The Starry Night" & "The Entombment of Christ" could have been switched around. I was thinking about putting "The Starry Night" in the Historical place category, and "The Entombment of Christ" in the culture category. That pretty much answers the question of how I think they overlap with each other. But, I feel confident that the category I put them in, fit.
The artworks used:
Michelangelo Caravaggio
"The Entombment of Christ"
Oil on canvas
1602-1603
Vincent Van Gogh
"The Starry Night"
Oil on canvas
1889
Leonardo da Vinci
"Mona Lisa"
Oil on poplar
1503-1519
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entombment_of_Christ_(Caravaggio)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa
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