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Description: | Monticelli was an intuitive, spontaneous artist. He worked quickly, covering his surfaces with jewel-like incrustations of colour. He applied his paint using strong and vigorous gestural brushstrokes. As we can see here, the surfaces of his paintings are often rough, almost turbulent. In the centre of the composition, the Virgin and Child stand, their presence indicated and emphasised by a golden halo of light. Before them the Magi, bearing their gifts, bow, bathed in the warm, golden light that emanates from the Virgin and Child. The subject of the painting, a traditional religious one, almost seems secondary to the artist's purpose. A contemporary viewer may well be overwhelmed by the technique, by the dramatic light and the sensual colours, rather than by the subject. | Subjects: | religion (Adoration of the Magi); figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Monticelli, Adolphe Joseph Thomas (French painter, 1824-1886) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8304... | Go to resource |
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