Simon Schama is a Bristish historian and an Art historian. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia College. He is best known for writing and hosting his serious of 15 parts BBC documentary serious. He has a particular interest in solving mysteries, studying very interesting artists suchs a Caravaggio and David. He's won multiple scholarships and likes to study the French Revolution
How does it control your eye? When you look, what do you see first? second? What does it mean?
The most interesting about Caravaggio in his paintings is that his paintings were painted to help paint his way out of trouble.. His paintings give off a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting.
Why did this storyteller chose to use such dramatic lighting and theatrical reenactments to tell his
stories? Did they make the story more believable? Why / How?
He stated that Caravaggio was challenging the very way the painting was supposed to be. That he took a painting and turned it into death, and something rather disgusting.
Question for open discussion: Do you think Carvaggio was in the wrong for showing the paintings in the way that he did? And if so, why?
No, I really do not think that he was wrong in showing his painting the way he did. I feel that artwork should not be censored. If an artist wants to depict something gruesomely, then that is the way it is suppose to be. I think that if an artist were to deny their artwork the emotion they feel while painting, then the work is worthless.
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