April Brown Explorations in Art

                                             First off,  I promise I am not a serial killer with my choosing yet again a decapitated painting to do my art review on.   I chose this piece because I loved the movie Clash of the Titans and there is a great fight scene in the movie with an actress playing Medusa.   I also went to nursing school and did post mortem care often in the hospital setting.  I find it interesting what artists get wrong and right when it comes to painting death.   Last week I analyzed the Renaissance piece the Head of John the Baptist, and after reviewing the Head of Medusa I noted one main difference between the two. In the painting from last week, the peoples faces were more expressionless whereas in this painting, the severed head looked overly dramatic.        While looking for a baroque painting to blog on,  I first typed into google “Baroque Famous paintings”. Two artists that I recognized were Rembrandt and Rubans.  I honestly couldn’t tell anyone wha

        The back story on John the Baptist, John was a profit but not just any profit.  The Gospels describe John the Baptist as being ordained by god as the precursor of Jesus.  He actually baptized Jesus. This man is considered a profit by multiple faiths even Islam.  He was called the baptist because he baptized those who repented their sins.  He didn’t really care about pleasing people and I think that’s what caused him to lose his head.  Whether he was talking about the hypocrisy of the religious establishment or talking about the immorality of King Herod’s second marriage to Salome’s mother he seemed to say whatever he believed even about a king.         I personally believe that women get the shaft when it comes to blame in world history.  As I am a woman, I believe we as a gender were expected to never upset men in any way.  If we were bold and stood out we were generally labeled a whore.  There are exceptions, however I am very glad that I was born in 1974 and not in the time