George Frederic Watts - After the Deluge, also known as The - TopicsExpress



          

George Frederic Watts - After the Deluge, also known as The Forty-First Day circa 1885 - 1891. Oil on canvas. Watts Gallery. Watts’s vast empty landscape, dominated by a sunburst, is an experimental painting. It imaginatively represents the phenomena of the sun bursting through clouds that have hung over the earth for forty days in the biblical story of The Flood. The rain has stopped to reveal the earth covered by slowly receding water. Noah and his family are not seen here. The painting presents an image symbolising forgiveness, offering renewal and re-creation. Watts was one of the first artists to directly paint the sun and the effects of light as the main image of an artwork.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:47:12 +0000

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