17 de dez de 2024 - Ophelia – John Everett Milliais ‘’There, out on the drooping branches, She was climbing to hang her wreath when a cruel tree limb broke. Then she and her crown of flowers Fell into the tearful brook. Her clothes spread out on the water, And kept her afloat for a while, like a mermaid. Meanwhile she was singing bits of old songs, As if she did not understand the danger she was in, Or as if she were some aquatic creature equipped to live in the stream. But it could not be long before her clothes, heavy with the absorbed water, Pulled the poor girl from where she lay singing down To a muddy death.’’ When we look at this painting which depicts Ophelia from Hamlet (world wide known play of Shakespeare) we can see a woman lying motionless in a pool of water and a emphasis on nature by the usage of bright colors. [Continues in the first comment]👇
