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... I choose this particular artist due to the fact that I was immediately taken away with his famous painting “Persephone” (1939), I wanted to dig up the background information of the painting to find the story it portrayed. ... Persephone and his collections of famous murals were the art works he had completed that I had come to love the most out of all his famous works. However Persephone is the most interesting out of the two projects, which is the reason of which the concentration is based upon this particular painting.
Persephone was finished in1939 on egg tempera and oil resin over casein on linen over panel seventy-two by fifty-six, found in Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Persephone is a goddess of fertility who was abducted by Hades, the lord of the underworld. ... The main reason why I personally choose this particular piece of art was in my interest that Benton is able to tell a story from his realistic ways of working, especially in Persephone. ... I flipped the page in a random historical art text and saw Persephone in the making. ... There is little gradation in Persephone however where there is gradation is through the small body over water leading the eye gradually to the background. ... Persephone has some contrast, which includes the light and darkness in the work. ... In Persephone, Benton uses emphasis on the woman’s red dress due to the fact that it is a very bright tone opposed to all the other darker tones of shades. ... Unity in Persephone is brought about with the roads and the farm-like look all around the figures. ... Since there is already a story behind this piece it is hard to determine an interpretation of what he was trying to portray, however, the way I would interpret the story just by looking at Persephone for the very first time, I would say that the woman brings love, peace and life to the new born America, and the old man brings darkness and death to the painting.
Approximate Word count = 2941
Approximate Pages = 11.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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