John Brack
John Brack is an artist with a distinct interest in life and people and this fascination is reflected into many of his works. A number of his works contain symbols and representations toward his views on life and how people live through it. Such examples of these types of works are The Evening Dance, painting, oil on canvas (1889-90) and The Battle, painting, oil on canvas (1981-83). They are two very different types of paintings with very strong and bold statements about people and the way they live their lives.The Evening Dance is very strong and bold, bursting with movement and hidden meanings of mixed emotions. This work is a painting of many pairs of wooden figurines dancing on a table. Each of the wooden couples is dancing in the same position, but they are painted from a different angle. I feel that this painting is about life and John Brack is proposing that life is like a dance. The wooden figurines represent people, the way that each figurine is exactly identical to another may suggest the way he views people going through life; being totally equal and n
o different from another. The round table that they dance upon and the repetition of the same dance position may perhaps imply the way he sees life, revolving and a constant journey only to take you to where you had begun. The manner in which each figurine are positioned in the same pose, yet seen from various perspectives may also suggest that way he feels about the people and their lives, different people living through the! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Evening Dance's form consists of the center of interest in the middle, with the curtains closing, drawing attention toward the table of dancing figurines. Whereas The Battle's form has no distinct center of interest, but the symmetrical lines all lead toward each other. Although like war, each individual will experience a battle of their own and there is no distinct center of interest that all would focus on. e top, like the red, but from opposite corners from the red and attacking the blue army. The use of pencils to represent people may suggest how people in an army are characterized; weak, us
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