VISA 1900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Gross Clinic, Social Realism, Optical Illusion
Document Summary
Portraits uphold status economic or cultural and very old genre. Goal to show political authority over territory (cesar) Transmit biography and ideas about themselves to make people admire him. Military uniform and role of commander of army. Showing his ancestors where gods with child (cupid) on a dolphin. Visual propaganda utilized to create a cult of personality. Natural organs where signed, needs to be regulated by christian culture. Wild man associates with nature with hair and primitive club weapon. Becomes one with forest with naked and inside the tree log. Preserving virginity, the wild man brags the girl. Notion of the wild man to depict people with christian civilization when they didn"t have anyone in person to paint. Women squeezing her own breast, representing unrestraint female. Explores not discovered another culture but beasts without bene t of christian faith. Racy romance novels with women being captured by indigenous men.
