Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Assumption of the virgin (Correggio)


This piece created by Correggio is absolutely breath-taking from the life like emotions on the figures faces to the true feeling of swirling towards heaven to the way everything fits together perfectly, Ive never see a piece with this level of intensity. When we were looking at the Palazzo De Te and this photo came up on the screen I was stunned. Just looking at this literally give me a feeling of being sucked up and into the painting, almost like I myself was ascending into heaven. The use of detail in the lights and shadows of this fresco makes everything feel so life like and almost plays into how I personally think ascending into heaven would be like. When looking at this piece that word "Organized Chaos" comes to mind. At first glance the painting looks like a bunch of legs and arms swirling and ascending towards heaven, but what drawls you in and makes you want to look closer is the expressions on the people faces and how the deeper you look into the piece the more everything is swept up and almost whimsy.