Willem Van Heythuysen Analysis

Willem van Heythuysen created by the American artist Kehinde Wiley in the year of 2005 is one of the most vibrant art pieces I have seen. Walking along the sides of a wall of the museum I turn the corner and I see an eye-catching piece that had a whole wall to itself along with a label. A great big eight by six piece with a gold gilded frame to match the back ground of the picture, and a dash of history to its pose that it possessed making it hard to miss. Walking up to the piece I noticed it was a painting with oil and coating of a young African American man in his late twenties Hip-Hop look. This man had an odd pose to his look, also considering he is a black man painted in a museum and it’s not every day you see that. Even though the pose
Maybe he was a wealthy man of his time and had a sense of fashion. At the commencement of my thoughts it came to me that the royalty didn’t reflect on his fashion but reflected upon his pose. A pose by which the painting itself was named after. Portrait of Willem van Heythuysen by Dutch artist Frans Hals made in early sixteen hundred. Left wrist on his hip, chin held high, body turned at a slight angle as he had his left foot in front of his right and his right hand holding his sword. Besides the fashion, he held this sword by the grip of his right hand along with showing his beaded bracelet to match his suit. With the sword point connected on ground level of his feet. The sword did have a thin long blade about half the size of his body along with a loop guard connected from its pom mel to the cross guard and a thick gold rain guard (chappe) to match. Last details that the sword held seemed to be a red cloth wrapped around the blade twice: once under the cross guard and six to eight inches below leaving a piece of material hanging. As I analyzed this red cloth I began to realize the animated background flattens the image, overlapping parts of the man’s body especially the