"Les yeux tristes ", IC, Marseilles, 1823
If you look at this picture, the first thing the beautiful, young woman right in the picture. The woman sitting at a table set on a chair.
Next to her is still a chair, the same chair on which it sits well, but this is empty.
The woman turned her head slightly to the right, she looks a very sad look at the empty chair.
At first glance one might think the person is at the center, but that is precisely not the case here. The person is not shown as the main character but as an observer. The decisive proof of this is the look that the person is directed to the right side. Believe it or not, but nothing but the empty chair is the main character in this picture.
Would not that chair there, or would sit on someone, there would most likely not just that sad look.
The image in the midst of the Romantic era was painted. There are all necessary features available:
-The picture was painted in 1823, the era of Romanticism began in the last decade of the 18th Century, and continued until ca 1850.
-The image exudes a lot of emotions, which at first glance may not notice the same.
-As already mentioned, the man is here, the observer and not the main character revolves around the whole incident.
is very critical of this "pain" of the clear in the eyes of the woman is seen.
Now I talk about the interpretation of this Painting ldes.
It is obvious that the woman is disappointed to deeply hurt and very sad.
The reason for this is most likely an unhappy love, or just an unhappy conclusion one love.
But their eyes shine with all its subtle, helpless attitude not only from, these are all also signs of an eternal wait.
She looks hopefully to the side, apparently hoping they finally see someone there, she wants it so much. But the seat next to her empty.
She wonders quietly inside her what she did wrong, she is better prepared to do everything but you do not know what you still can. She makes accusations, it forms itself on being to blame but they know exactly that the blame lies with her.
You shoot, no go, her, no, not even the more, you creep slowly various thoughts through my head, because you have no strength left so much more to think about one thing, the main idea consists of a single word: Why?
She wants nothing more than to be just loved.
This woman was clearly not a happy past and she is afraid of their future, they will not know what to expect there, but it tends to view that in the future nothing LUC , is expected Glad or enjoyable.
Caspar David Friedrich once said
" Every age has its good and evil spirit, recognize only the better the present and not ask how many now do the past as an unconditional model for the presence of. "
If I could come over this woman, I would tell her exactly that sentence!
I am firmly convinced that you have a happy future ahead of him, has shown that I understand from the beauty of the woman.
The artist would have shown this woman not so beautiful when they know that they would expect a bad future, for a bad end is, in most cases a good start.
Karina Siskind
Neu-Ulm, den 13.01.2009
