Seven Deadly Sins & Recent Works

Seven Deadly Sins & Recent Works
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 64
Release :
ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822035554708
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Book Synopsis Seven Deadly Sins & Recent Works by : Jamie Wyeth

Download or read book Seven Deadly Sins & Recent Works written by Jamie Wyeth and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition of Jamie Wyeth's 2007 series of paintings, The Seven Deadly Sins, is a rare example of a contemporary artist taking on a subject long associated with the history of Christian art. The subject's focus is human frailty, specifically the sins of pride, envy, anger, greed, sloth, gluttony, and lust, codified as the seven deadly sins in the writings of the late thirteenth-century Dominican, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Dante dealt with the theme in his famed Divine Comedy and Chaucer in his The Canterbury Tales, as did Shakespeare's contemporary, playwright Christopher Marlowe. Perhaps the most famous painted treatment of the subject is that of the sixteenth-century Dutch painter, Hieronymous Bosch. By the twentieth century, however, the subject had disappeared from artists' repertoires, only to be revived in the 1930s by the playwright Bertolt Brecht, and choreographer George Balanchine. It was Cadmus' surreal 1945-49 paintings of the seven deadly sins that inspired Jamie Wyeth, decades after first seeing them, to do his own series of paintings on the theme. Wyeth's take on the subject, however, is characteristically his own - the sins are acted out by seagulls, birds the artist has observed for decades along the coast of Maine and from his studios on Monhegan and Southern islands. As he noted in an interview for the exhibition, "gulls are nasty birds, filled with their own jealousies and rivalries ..." The exhibition will focus on these seven paintings, accompanied by written and visual materials that place Wyeth's work within the subject's long iconographic history


Seven Deadly Sins & Recent Works Related Books

The Seven Deadly Sins
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Nakaba Suzuki
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Kodansha Comics

GET EBOOK

Seven Deadly Sins & Recent Works
Language: en
Pages: 64
Authors: Jamie Wyeth
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

The exhibition of Jamie Wyeth's 2007 series of paintings, The Seven Deadly Sins, is a rare example of a contemporary artist taking on a subject long associated
Seven Deadly Sins
Language: en
Pages: 171
Authors: Corey Taylor
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-03 - Publisher: Hachette UK

GET EBOOK

For the first time, Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor speaks directly to his fans and shares his worldview about life as a sinner. And Taylor knows
The 7 Deadly Sins
Language: en
Pages: 186
Authors: Tze Chun
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-01 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

A thrilling and bold take on the classic Western tale of redemption and revenge. ONE DEADLY MISSION.1857. Texas. A group of death row criminals is recruited by
The Seven Deadly Sins 41
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Nakaba Suzuki
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-09 - Publisher: Kodansha America LLC

GET EBOOK

The secret ambition that Merlin has held in her heart since the formation of The Seven Deadly Sins is finally exposed as she awakens Arthur as the King of Chaos