Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct 
Heggel Akame
Description Paper
English Composition I
10/15/2014
Nature has inspired great works of art throughout generations. Man uses the beauty around him as an inspiration to portray a wonderful environment. Theodore Gericault’s; “Evening: with an Aqueduct”, landscapes capturing the vastness of the great out door; Childe Hassam’s; “Surf, Isles and Shoals”, portrays strong wind blowing from the crashing tide, and Giovanni di Paolo’s; “The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise”; portray God as bathing in the glowing celestial light while an angel shows Adam and Eve out of the beautiful garden after they sin, are examples of great paintings that shows the beauty and magnificence of nature.
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct; Théodore Gericault Size; 98 ½’ x 86 ½’ Gallery #802
The image in the piece looks kind of rough, like the old roman ruins on the left and rocky structures on the right, but the piece still looks smooth. The contrast of the light and dark colors in the sky gives this piece a different theme from the dull-like look at the bottom. The tree that looks like it’s in lava; the roman ruins and the aqueduct in the center differentiate the many shadows in the piece such as on the structural buildings on the left, the rocks and the sky. The people at the bottom were painted in a unique and funny way; they look dream-like yet realistic. It also shows a correlation between nature and people. The humans at the bottom are interacting with nature like sitting, standing, swimming and diving in the water but nature is bigger than them. The sky shows the true colors of nature how it can be versatile, one moment it’s peaceful and beautiful the next it’s bringing down destructive forces. The structures in the piece seem like they were crafted from one massive rock. I choose this painting because I like how wonderful nature can be and Gericault is trying to express its power through the striking appearance in the piece to help us understand its
Description Paper
English Composition I
10/15/2014
Nature has inspired great works of art throughout generations. Man uses the beauty around him as an inspiration to portray a wonderful environment. Theodore Gericault’s; “Evening: with an Aqueduct”, landscapes capturing the vastness of the great out door; Childe Hassam’s; “Surf, Isles and Shoals”, portrays strong wind blowing from the crashing tide, and Giovanni di Paolo’s; “The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise”; portray God as bathing in the glowing celestial light while an angel shows Adam and Eve out of the beautiful garden after they sin, are examples of great paintings that shows the beauty and magnificence of nature.
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct; Théodore Gericault Size; 98 ½’ x 86 ½’ Gallery #802
The image in the piece looks kind of rough, like the old roman ruins on the left and rocky structures on the right, but the piece still looks smooth. The contrast of the light and dark colors in the sky gives this piece a different theme from the dull-like look at the bottom. The tree that looks like it’s in lava; the roman ruins and the aqueduct in the center differentiate the many shadows in the piece such as on the structural buildings on the left, the rocks and the sky. The people at the bottom were painted in a unique and funny way; they look dream-like yet realistic. It also shows a correlation between nature and people. The humans at the bottom are interacting with nature like sitting, standing, swimming and diving in the water but nature is bigger than them. The sky shows the true colors of nature how it can be versatile, one moment it’s peaceful and beautiful the next it’s bringing down destructive forces. The structures in the piece seem like they were crafted from one massive rock. I choose this painting because I like how wonderful nature can be and Gericault is trying to express its power through the striking appearance in the piece to help us understand its