Anyone seen it? What did you think? What picture stunned you? Who painted it?
2006-10-08 11:14:09 · 6 answers · asked by helen p 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
Painted by Gericault, if my memory serves me correctly. It's a massive painting.
2006-10-10 02:17:13 · answer #1 · answered by Orla C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Raft of the Medusa was painted by Théodore Géricault between1818 and 1819 and illustrates the shipwreck of "La Méduse" a French frigate that infamously struck the Bank of Arguin off the coast of Senegal in 1816.
Impressed by accounts of the shipwreck, the 25-year-old artist Théodore Géricault decided to make a painting based of the incident and contacted the writers in 1818. In order to make his Raft of the Medusa as realistic as possible, Géricault made sketches of bodies in the morgue of the Hospital Beaujon. His finished painting, however, toned down the horror of the event by depicting the raft at the moment of rescue, with the Argus on the horizon.
Géricault used friends as models, notably the painter Eugène Delacroix as the figure in the foreground with his face to the ground and arms outstretched. The painting, which was on the epic scale of a history painting yet based on a current news story, first appeared in the Paris Salon in 1819 and was a sensation. It currently resides in the Louvre.
On Géricaultat tomb at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris there is a bas-relief reproduction of the "Raft of the Medusa". I have good pictures (of mine) of the painting and of the tomb if you are interested.
2006-10-08 11:27:00 · answer #2 · answered by Vogon Poet 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was 18 I was at a University art sale and I was stunned by Picasso's Guernica and so I bought a print of it right away. I had no idea who Picasso was or that this painting was so famous it just had an immediate impact on me, leaving me, well, stunned.
2006-10-08 11:45:05 · answer #3 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are now totally under the power of Medusa. You should not have looked at the painting. Later, you will turn to stone.
2006-10-09 06:30:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is by Gericault, and it is very impressive in size and energy of composition.
2006-10-08 11:22:21 · answer #5 · answered by moore850 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But I am very impressed you are obviously someone of culture
2006-10-09 05:14:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋