Critique #2 -"Jealousy"

When people become jealous, they have different expressions and emotions. Some express anger, sadness or even hostility. Others might not express any emotions but inside they’re having difficulty dealing with it. Judith Redman’s work reminds people of Edvard Munch’s work with jealousy. She dedicates her art work to express emotions that people see every day in society. In the painting, “Jealousy”, Judith Redman emphasizes on cool colors and abstract contrast in order to express the value of how people show facial expressions of envy.

Redman paints portraits and paintings of how people see others in society showing their emotions towards jealousy. She uses cool colors to highlight the importance of strong feelings of others. There’s a dark shade of blues in the background which symbolizes the gloomy and depressing feelings faced by people in society. Many people uses the word “blue” to show how one is sick, disappointed or depressed. The blues in the background causes the viewer to focus on the three bright yellow faces in the middle. The colors show how one can see the miserable facial expressions that are depicted by the effects of jealousy.

The contrast of the blues and yellows in the painting emphasize the importance of how people express jealousy. In the painting, it is dark blue in the background and bright yellow faces upfront which makes the painting balanced and have realism composition. The facial expression of the bigger woman’s face is more serious and miserable than the other women’s faces. Her face is upfront and more noticeable. The other two faces are more tenuous but still show how people are depressed by the input of envy. Their mouths show the lack of emotions and how people distance themselves from society and everyone around them.     

      

The expressions of one’s face impacts on how others discerned their emotions. Most people either want to get revenge or distance themselves from the situation that is making them jealous. Their facial expression can determine which one they want to do. In the painting, “Jealousy,” Judith Redman provides cool colors and abstract contrast to show the importance of people’s facial expressions of envious. Many people demonstrate different actions to express their emotions.

"Jealousy"- Judith Redman

Painting and Sculpture of Envy

(painting)

Artist: Francois Lemoyne

(sculpture)



Artist: Gustav Vigeland

Critique #1

During the isolation of time, Edvard Munch expressed his feelings through his artwork. These emotions were from his past experiences. The paintings would be about the feelings that he found unacceptable in people, such as jealousy, hostility and depression. To release these painful emotions, Munch creatively showed it through his artwork. In the painting, “Envy,” Edvard Munch carefully uses vivid facial expression, severe realism and opposite composition in order to express jealousy and loneliness that people feel every day.

  In the painting, the man’s face shows how people distance themselves from others and society. The artist uses complementary colors to emphasize the man’s facial expression showing a strong feeling of both misery and jealousy. The shade under his eyes shows how tired he is. By feeling lonely, from the blissful couple standing in the background in a doorway, the man suffers from being distanced from everything else in the world. The dull skinny face symbolizes how lost and jealous people get from being alone. Jealousy makes people want to get away from everyone and be distant from society.

Munch uses severe realism in the painting to emphasize how jealousy is present in everyday life.  When someone is jealous of something else, such as love or a couple in love makes them take drastic actions. Some could cause destruction to their relationship or deal with it alone. Munch isolates the man from the couple and is left alone. As the couple continues to be happy and full of life, the man continues to feel lonely and hopeless. While the man continues to see them happy, it makes him feel worse than before.

Munch contrasts the couple’s emotions and the man’s emotions to make the painting balanced. In the background of this painting, the elated couple is showing their love for each other while the man is isolated and is jealous of their happiness.  The opposite composition of the couple’s and man’s feelings comes together to form unity. When couples are happy and enjoying life, others become jealous and feel replaced from their contentment. When people become jealous, they tend to take their anger or get revenge on the situation.

Munch realized that his artwork resembled unpleasant emotions that people see everyday. Most of his paintings represent painful experiences from his past. The artwork shows emotions such as anger, envy and misery. Edvard Munch uses vivid facial expression, severe realism and opposite composition, in the painting “Envy”, in order to show the feeling of jealousy and loneliness that people notice every day.