Raft Of Medusa
... In the picture The Raft of the “Medusa” by Gericault painted in 1819, the struggle is set on the ocean and man is having the ultimate conflict with nature. Observing the picture the viewer is able to see in the foreground a broken down raft with at least 10 half-clad people in various poses. ... Some people look like they are extremely ill or dying and limbs are slipping or hanging off the raft. ... The sky is very dark except for the last rays of the setting sun that illuminate the people on the raft. ... The people closer to the viewer are larger while the people on the back of the raft are smaller utilizing the tools of diminishing and overlapping. ... The people in the front of the raft have some feeling they will be saved because they are actively trying to signal a distant ship towards them. ... There is chaos at the bottom of the raft shown by a heap of entwined limbs, some falling off the raft.