This is a painting called The Expulsion from the garden of Eden. It is an oil on canvas. This painting is by Thomas Cole. He was born in England. Cole painted this painting having displeased the lord by eating the forbidden fruit. They give them knowledge good or evil. This painting shows how Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden by disobeying and diseiving god. Cole told the story through the landscape. He contrasts the landscape as paradise lush and tropical with a harsh and violent external world. Adam and Eve are almost swallowed up by their natural drama and seemed propelled by the the shaft of light that represents gods power. Religion influences this painting, because it shows the beleifs in gods power between the nature of the two worlds. I chose this painting because as the tour guide explained the story through the painting it seemed interesting to learn more about, also in this painting I like how on one side it shows the colors of nature with bright colors as the 'paradise' an on the other side it shows the colors of the darker part of the world and how there is a darklife on that side that is oppisite than the other. Language influences this painting by showing how the people who look at this painting can picture this painting in anyway they want to let there minds read it. I chose this piece because I thought it was interesting the the painter painting what made you thing about the shapes she painted and what you think they look like.
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