Jan Van Eyck's Use Of Fraggerary Realism In Art
In my own definition, fragmentary realism is pieces of artworks put together to tell a story. Jan Van Eyck did the artwork that was described in lecture that display fragmentary realism and it is Called Ghent Altarpiece painted in 1432. There are 12 different pictures grouped together to make a story in his work. In the upper center of the painting there is God the Father, Jesus on his left hand side and Mary the mother of Christ seated at his right hand side. At the upper end of the painting there are Adam and Eve naked and standing in the opposite direction of each other. Below God and Jesus, there is the sacrificial lamb on a platform with people kneeling down to it. The lamb is the symbol of Christ coming on earth to die for our sin. The