Response
Response
2016
Oil on Canvas
98 x 110cm
“Response” takes inspiration and influence from “Ophelia” by Sir John Everett Millais. The painting attempts to recreate the same tranquillity yet somewhat disturbing image of Ophelia’s floating corpse. However, unlike Millais’ painting, with his abundance of background detail, signs and symbols to create a guide for an audience to read through the painting. Response concentrates on the head and allows an audience to interpret their own narrative rather than being overly prescriptive.
Ophelia, after losing her mind when her father is murdered by her lover Hamlet, drowns herself in a stream. Finally quieting the madness; the bitter resentment. Yet, there are suggestions that Ophelia’s death may have been purely accidental. With this in mind, her father’s murder is the trigger, the cause of her going down to the stream; her response. The tragedy there after is known to us from various arts. Accident or suicide; this is my Response.
Response
2016
Oil on Canvas
98 x 110cm
“Response” takes inspiration and influence from “Ophelia” by Sir John Everett Millais. The painting attempts to recreate the same tranquillity yet somewhat disturbing image of Ophelia’s floating corpse. However, unlike Millais’ painting, with his abundance of background detail, signs and symbols to create a guide for an audience to read through the painting. Response concentrates on the head and allows an audience to interpret their own narrative rather than being overly prescriptive.
Ophelia, after losing her mind when her father is murdered by her lover Hamlet, drowns herself in a stream. Finally quieting the madness; the bitter resentment. Yet, there are suggestions that Ophelia’s death may have been purely accidental. With this in mind, her father’s murder is the trigger, the cause of her going down to the stream; her response. The tragedy there after is known to us from various arts. Accident or suicide; this is my Response.
Response
2016
Oil on Canvas
98 x 110cm
“Response” takes inspiration and influence from “Ophelia” by Sir John Everett Millais. The painting attempts to recreate the same tranquillity yet somewhat disturbing image of Ophelia’s floating corpse. However, unlike Millais’ painting, with his abundance of background detail, signs and symbols to create a guide for an audience to read through the painting. Response concentrates on the head and allows an audience to interpret their own narrative rather than being overly prescriptive.
Ophelia, after losing her mind when her father is murdered by her lover Hamlet, drowns herself in a stream. Finally quieting the madness; the bitter resentment. Yet, there are suggestions that Ophelia’s death may have been purely accidental. With this in mind, her father’s murder is the trigger, the cause of her going down to the stream; her response. The tragedy there after is known to us from various arts. Accident or suicide; this is my Response.