Deucalion’s people is the oil painting made in 1943 by Josef
Sima. It shows the landscape with some dry tree parts and peoples parts coming
from the ground. It isn’t creepy but it disturbs in some way.
Going more detailed, the landscape looks like a forest, because
of lots of trees and green grass with rocks, but at the same time we see it as
a path – all trees are located on left and right sides of a painting, it the
middle its only grass and more trees going into perspective and creating the
trail. The sky is full of clouds. On the front of the painting, some wood
parts could be seen. Something like a dry bush or tree roots looking upside
down. On the front it is also another dry looking tree part, laying on the
grass. It looks like a cut or broken pies of the tree. And of course, the main
thing we actually see when looking on this picture is an arm, raised to the
sky, and piercing the small cloud. And something bent, like a leg or another
arm, and unrecognizable because the beginning and the ending does into the land.
To describe the meaning, it is important to look at the name
of the art. Deucalion is a hero from the Greek mythology, who the bibles Noah was
inspired from. The person who build a box (the ark) and survived with his
family after the flood sent by Gods. In these points, we can make several interprets.
First one, I thought about, without looking on the name, is the hand, raised up
represents people and the humanity by itself, trying to reach the sky in their dreams,
but steel being underground for some reason. It is also intersecting the cloud,
the hand pierced, could be understood as a sky by itself (because people are
really tended to reach the sky literally and figuratively), or as a reaching
gods (sky is the place for gods to live, for some reason). At the same time,
looking at the picture with Greek mythology influence, we could say, the hands
and all other, is people from past, people who used to ignore gods, and to
think they are better than them. In this way, a path, created by trees could be addressed
to the nowadays people, and hands are just an illustration of our past and a reminder of what we shouldn’t act like. In this way cloud on the arm has more
ironical or even sarcastic meaning, like if you were reaching the sky, but the
only sky you really ever reached is that far from the real one, and means
nothing the real clouds up there.
It is too many ways to describe the picture. It depends on
your historical knowledge, and on the way how you feel about this painting,
humanity and yourself. But it definitely makes you think “what could it mean”
without any effort, because of its anxiety. So this painting is really good to
think about, because it has lots of details, to give meaning to, but at the
same time it is not overloaded with it, to think it about is as about a chaotic
mess.
I guess it is pretty important to have those type of art in our
life, because it makes you think, and helps you to understand yourself better,
to make your knowledge wider.
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