Italian Painter Masaccio Painting on Adam and Eve

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Italian Painter Masaccio Painting on Adam and Eve
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According to his own way, God created a man
called Adam with clay. And later God took a rib
from Adam to make a spouse named Eve for him.
They lived together in the Garden of Eden. And
there was a rule that no one could eat the fruits
on the tree of life and tree of good and evil.
One day, the snake pointed to the tree of good
and evil and said to Eve who stayed alone in the
garden, ?Are the fruits on the trees
beautiful?? ?Yes?, Eve replied. Then the
snake continued, ?Delicious?? ?I have not eaten
them. I dont know.? ?Why not have
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a try?? Therefore Eve ate the forbidden fruits
and felt very good. And she lured Adam to eat.
Suddenly their eyes became bright. God knew what
Eve did and worried that if she also ate
the fruits on the tree of life, she would
be as immortal as him. Then he sent an angel to
banish them out of the Garden of Eden to the
earth. And he cursed people would toil to make
the land grow crops to feed themselves. So
the earth became peoples purgation
place ?purgatory?. Adam and Eve became the
progenitors of the human race.
This Christian theme had been painted for
many artists. Adam and Eve Banished from
Paradise made by one of the Italian
greatest painters Masaccio in the 15th century
had a dramatic sense. He solved the problem that
Giotto had failed to docharacterization
of the volume and the performance of
the natural sense of space. Early
Renaissance Masaccio endowed with the spirit
of the times and sent to his ideal. In
the works of Masaccio, Adam and Eve were
robust, strong, and emotional people. The men and
women committed crime because of their eating the
forbidden fruits and were reluctant to leave God
who repelled them out of the paradise.
In the painting, the painter had basically solved
the right shaping of human bodies and vivid
creation of the emotional attitudes, which was
quite different from the shaping which the
medieval people could not stand on. The
shameful modality of men and women was very
vivid. Eve's hands clutched her body, which was
influenced by the ancient Greek form of Venus.
The artist used complex perspective
foreshortening method to draw the angel, making
it from reaching toward Adam and Eve to chase the
spatial sense at the same time, the artist began
to use the optical projection, behind in person,
letting Adam and Eve seem to be the trend in the
light. This was a creation, which opened
a precedent of modern painting.
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