goya
...pe and courage. In ‘Saturn devouring his children’, Saturn was the roman name for Koronus, the god in Greek mythology. He swallowed his children after being told that one of them would dethrone him. Saturn is a symbol of evil, Satan, a monster. The cannibalistic god on bent knees is engulfed in darkness. The mad haunted eyes and black blooded mouth, the rending figures, threaded with blood, and the ravaged figure in their grasp is absolutely horrifying. Goya emphasizes the gruesomeness by the torn and jagged body. Saturn glares in lunatic frenzy while devouring a part of the body, his eyes are huge and bulging as if he is mad. The angle that Saturn is painted on is as if he has just been caught by a photo. In Rwanda Maconde there is a man with three expression pain, shame and duty. This is painted with three different faces in motion. He is holding a rifle in his arms which is un-proportioned, they are elongated. His clothing seems to be his skin, a leopard print or camouflage. The brush stokes of the artist in loose and more expressive. The size of the painting is large; this overwhelms and shocks the viewer to see such a horrible scene. Goya’s painting is also large which overwhelms and shocks the viewer. The background is dark which enables the foreground to be viewed with more emphasizes. The only use of colour in ‘Saturn devouring his children’ besides flesh-tones is the splash of red blood covering the mutilated outline of the upper part of the half eaten body. In Rwanda Maconde Gittoes uses bold and bright colours to attract the attention of the audience. This painting can be seen bluntly as portraying the circle of life, and, when pushed, how far things can go. This whole painting is very dark and drab, like "May Third." Goya paints the god as a man, yet in him has a twist to communicate to the viewer how he is not human. He uses the man figure and the size of the child to mak...