HIDDEN MEANING IN FAMOUS PAINTINGS
This painting, regarded as the artist's magnum opus and one of the greatest and most popular paintings in the world, also has hidden meanings in its surface. Many analysts believe that the twisted cypress tree in the back top is associated with death and Van Gogh’s final suicide.
The tree in the artwork stretches towards the sky, creating a direct link between the ground and the sky. This hopeful view of cypress symbolism recalls the artist’s letter to his brother, Theo, in which he compared death to a train that journeys to the stars.
Another meaning to the painting was given by Jose Luis Aragon, a physicist, who connected the tumultuous dance of dark and light in the painting to the mathematical description of disturbance in natural phenomena such as air, streams and whirlpools. He discovered that they were nearly identical.
Arnolfini Portrait
- Artist: Jan van Eyck
-Year:1434
Painted by Dutch master Jan van Eyck, this early Netherlandish panel painting is shrouded in symbolism. The elegantly dressed couple are thought to be Giovanni di Nicolao, di Arnolfini and his wife, Costanza Trenta, wealthy Italians living in Bruges. The unusual composition serves several questions. Does the painting celebrate the couple’s wedding or commemorate some other event, such as a shrewdly negotiated marriage contract? Was the bride pregnant or simply dressed in the latest fashion? And what are the mysterious figures depicted in the convex mirror? The unorthodox placement of van Eyck’s signature directly above it suggests one of the men may be the artist himself.
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