Art & Soul Short #36
Joan of Arc. Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848–1884). 1879. Oil on canvas. 100 x 110 in. (254 x 279.4 cm) Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art open access. Called How the artist almost cut the scene in half, vertically, into two paintings. Still images. Divided worlds. The seen and not. Two views. One story. Joan on earth dreamy-eyed and looking lost, away, looking for something to save her from brown-green existence. Family who did not understand her talking to hersel