Jupiter and Thetis

Week 9

Jupiter and Thetis

Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres

Oil on canvas, 1811

10’85/8 inches by 8’65/16 inches

Musee Granet, Aix-en-Provence

           

            This painting is depicting what looks like a god in the heavens sitting on his thrown. And there is a woman admiring him. Also there is an eagle in the painting along with another women admiring from afar. Some of the clouds in this painting also look very dark like there is a storm. The lines in this painting are organic and geometric. Warm and cool colors are being used. The man is dressed in a very warm pink. Cooler colors are also being used in the background. This makes the people in the front of the painting really stick out. The man is placed right in the center of the painting. Everything is surrounding him. He is the center of attention.

            The purpose of this work is to represent a godly figure. This man looks very strong and powerful a lot like we think of a godly figure. The social issue I chose to go along with this is religion. When I think about God I think about a mighty man like the one represented in this painting. This painting makes him look like he is glowing like an angle from heaven. Everything looks like it is perfect.

            Paintings of gods such as this one have given us an understanding of how our true God might look like. Because there have been so many paintings of gods such as this one now we think of our God to look like this. They make him look so mighty and powerful. He is the leader of everyone and we look up to him like the other women in this painting are doing.