Too Dark Park

So for some reason while we went through the Rurouni Kenshin anime, The Boyfriend decided saying “hamslayer” whenever the word “manslayer” was on screen would be funny.

I was so excited for this scene. So excited.

Seeing Eye Cat Adopts Blind Dog As Best Friend, Guides Him Everywhere

This is the classic story of a dog chasing a cat, though it turns the convention on its tail, so to speak.

However, I would argue that this picture is more Baroque than Renaissance. Notable features of Baroque art are:

Images are direct, obvious, and dramatic.

Tries to draw the viewer in to participate in the scene.

Depictions feel physically and psychologically real. Emotionally intense.

Extravagant settings and ornamentation.

Dramatic use of color.

Dramatic contrasts between light and dark, light and shadow.

As opposed to Renaissance art with its clearly defined planes, with each figure placed in isolation from each other, Baroque art has continuous overlapping of figures and elements.

Common themes: grandiose visions, ecstasies and conversions, martyrdom and death, intense light, intense psychological moments.

In the baroque, artists strove to evoke aesthetic responses. Now I’m not talking about aesthetic as in “oh thats pretty” I’m talking about aesthetic like that punch in the gut reaction you get to something.

One of the ways this was done was through the depiction of intense emotion which we see in this photograph. compare to Bernini