Research: Photography and Narrative
Painters

Harmen Steenwyck

The books symbolise human knowledge, the musical instruments like recorder, flute and violin gives a meaning of the pleasures of the senses. Certain objects in paintings are softly modelled by light which enhances sharp outlines. Parts of the objects are visible than other objects as the artist use wide range of shading to suggest spreading of light and shadow. Skull represents strong difference with the objects of everyday life. While some objects such as instruments are associated with pleasure and achievements of physical existence, the skull represents death. Light in the painting shows spiritual and directs at skull that intensifies the spiritual and the physical between life and death. 

Edward Manet

Edward was one of the first 19th century artists to paint modern life, figure in the transition from realism to impressionism. His rough painted style and his lighting works has been seen modern and to challenge to the Renaissance works and copied their sources of material. He was early modern painter due to black outlining of figures that draws attention of the main subject on picture. These paintings show the women are at piece and enjoying the surrounding they set place soothing themselves from situations, work, house work or drama.

Ophelia

 

The ophelia painting was painted by a British artist John Everett Millais, the painting ophelia shows a character from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. The painting is known for the detailed flora of the riverbank, stressing of growth and decay in a natural habitat. According to Shakespeare each flower carries a meaning. The red poppy that is not mentioned by shakespeare's description of the scene but it represents sleep and death.