St. George And The Dragon, 1397-1470
“Comparison & Contrast”
Art work can provide excellent opportunities for expression and makes varying impressions on the masses; the beauty is that each experience is genuinely unique. Paolo Uccello (Italian, 1397-1475), created the oil on canvas painting St. George and the Dragon, 1470. Almost five hundred and twenty years later, Uccello’s painting inspired another artist in her own right, Ursula Askham Fanthorpe. Fanthorpe, an English poet, found herself moved by Uccello’s painting and was inspired to write the poem, “Not My Best Side” (1989). The concept of ekphrasis displays how both contrasting mediums can create inspiration individually, as well as the unique experience they can create together, especially in referencing the ambient impression, symbolic variance, an emphasis of the subject matter, and an overall impact on the audience.
The oil on canvas painting by Uccello is based on the legendary story “St. George and the Dragon” which took place in Libya, which was the sufficiently exotic locale where a creature like a dragon might be imagined. The name of the city used in the tenth-century Georgian narrative is Lasia, and it is fictional. The fictitious city had a pond that was as large as a lake, and this is where the dragon resided. To appease the dragon, the people of city would …show more content…
In addition, the humor in the poem can also be placed into perspective by allowing us to understand that even though we sometimes are defeated, we look at the brighter side of things and even make a joke or find humor in our opponents in an effort to cover up the sorrow or bad feelings we may have about them or the battle we lost against
Art work can provide excellent opportunities for expression and makes varying impressions on the masses; the beauty is that each experience is genuinely unique. Paolo Uccello (Italian, 1397-1475), created the oil on canvas painting St. George and the Dragon, 1470. Almost five hundred and twenty years later, Uccello’s painting inspired another artist in her own right, Ursula Askham Fanthorpe. Fanthorpe, an English poet, found herself moved by Uccello’s painting and was inspired to write the poem, “Not My Best Side” (1989). The concept of ekphrasis displays how both contrasting mediums can create inspiration individually, as well as the unique experience they can create together, especially in referencing the ambient impression, symbolic variance, an emphasis of the subject matter, and an overall impact on the audience.
The oil on canvas painting by Uccello is based on the legendary story “St. George and the Dragon” which took place in Libya, which was the sufficiently exotic locale where a creature like a dragon might be imagined. The name of the city used in the tenth-century Georgian narrative is Lasia, and it is fictional. The fictitious city had a pond that was as large as a lake, and this is where the dragon resided. To appease the dragon, the people of city would …show more content…
In addition, the humor in the poem can also be placed into perspective by allowing us to understand that even though we sometimes are defeated, we look at the brighter side of things and even make a joke or find humor in our opponents in an effort to cover up the sorrow or bad feelings we may have about them or the battle we lost against