Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
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<strong>ARAS</strong> Connections Issue 2, 2012<br />
other. They are jumbled rather than unified. The overall effect is of a delightful<br />
cartoon.<br />
Plate 9: El Greco <strong>and</strong> Caravaggio<br />
While El Greco focuses on structure in relationship to the rectangle,<br />
Caravaggio is more concerned with realistic detail.<br />
In the Caravaggio the oval of the lute is echoed by the oval of the woman's<br />
face. There are contrasts, between light <strong>and</strong> dark, between the oval of the lute <strong>and</strong><br />
the rectangle of the music book, between the regularity of the lute <strong>and</strong> the<br />
irregularity of the violin, between the oval of the body of the lute <strong>and</strong> the<br />
jaggedness of the fret, <strong>and</strong> between the smooth surface of the lute <strong>and</strong> the frilly<br />
texture of the blouse.<br />
These contrasts are part of a beautiful composition but in terms of spatial<br />
Plate 9 Left - El Greco. Spanish. Saint Jerome as a Cardinal. ca 1600. Copyright<br />
2000-2009 The Metropolitan Museum of <strong>Art</strong>, New York. Right -Caravaggio.<br />
Italian. The Lute Player. 1596-97. Copyright 2000-2009 The Metropolitan<br />
Museum of <strong>Art</strong>, New York.<br />
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