La Liberte guidant le peuple

Art is beyond the limitations of sylvan boundaries and its determine should be sh ared by citizenry from all over the instauration eternally. When talking about art, I have to say that France Is my favorite country for the compriseation of art, as the country has a long history for act art and fashion since Louis XIV, the King of Sun, who Is a king keen on the pursuit of art and fashion. Thitherfore In this summer I took the hazard to go to Louvre Museum In Paris to pay a maunder to the famed 011 pictures in the museum.In this essay, I would like to choose one of the famous oil moving picture La Liberty guiding el people from my personal perspective of gendered art. On entering the museum, I could sense a warm atmosp here of history and a deep sense of fear rose deep from my soul. Then I saw the famous painting drawn by Delicacies. In the middle of the painting is a raw French lady who is calling on her villagers to fight against the Restoration of Bourbon in July Revolu tion.The womanhood is half naked in the upper classify of her body, with her breasts out. On her right hand, she is holding a flag with three colors, which represent freedom, equating and philanthropist. Now the flag has become the national flag of the Republic of France. On her left(p) hand, she was grasping a long gun with a swell knife on It. Though she Is wearing a long dress, we squeeze out see her legs are powerful and firm, and she Is leading the soldiers to move forward crossways the dead bodies and the ruins of the bulldogs.The background of this painting is inflexible before Notre Dame in Paris where there is full f the smokes from gunpowder, which shows that the war is in its hottest point. approximately of the critiques believe that she is the symbol of freedom, with great passion and quixotic characters. To look at the female in detail, we can find that this woman shows a disposal of masculinity different from her own gender.Different from John Burgers traditi onal opinion on man and woman in artistic drubs, which means that a mans heraldic bearing is dependent upon the promise of power, tour a womens presence expresses her own sketch to herself, or his belief that men focus on the out human face while women focus on the inner part Noon Berger, 1 990), here a sense of cross-gender Identification Is emphasized In the work as a way of showing opposition to the old binary system. As a result, the symbolic meaning In this painting Is evident.Just as the view from feminist that gender is a social construction this painting seems to rejuvenate our social norm about the binary system. Traditionally, gender is presented as biological and predetermined instead of a culturally constructed, external performance (Sloop, 2004). So although the women act like men, their female dies are inscribed with sexual frailnessa weakness that can only be matched by masculine strength as their rescuer is physically privileged (Sarah Cornfield, 2011).This pa inting seems to discredit that why men should be prior to women? As is seen, on the left side of the painting, there is a dead, thin male body, whose lower part of the body Is naked. Also, beside the leg of the woman, there Is a male enemy whose seems to be begging for the forgiveness of the woman and the working class. These two characters are unwonted in the paintings, as they show the weakness of male In trench. end-to-end the history of OLL painting, male Image seldom appears weaker than female public figure, according to the understructure of John Berger.What is more, on the painting he is holding his gun risque up his head alongside with the woman. Contrary to use a weapons-grade and matured male as the hero in the painting, the existence of a young boy, though not so powerful than a strong male, represents the hope emerging in the new world. On the left side of the woman, there are two men dressing very fashionably. They represent the emerging working class who are fig hting against the Bourbon. But they are not the main characters in this painting, as their existence is for the purpose to set off to woman representing freedom.After all, all of the unusual and creative arrangements by the painter here in fact want to suggest us that everything old go forth be ruined and a new social norm found on love freedom and equality will be set up in the future. To sum up, the bold imagination, the rich implied meanings in this work all contribute to its successes during the whole history. This painting gives us a romantic and ideal feeling in the severe war, and constructs our traditional conception on gender, that women not always appear as a weak image and women can be more powerful men to some extent.However, in the same time I also admit the fact that differences in the midst of male and female do exist. And in the whole painting history, as Berger has pointed out, the ideal is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flat ter him. In my opinion, as long as the painting present people with the aesthetic characters of masculinity and femininity instead of torturous them. I admire the painter Eugene