On the Museum of Fine Arts I choose a painting called Twelfth-Night Feast by Jan Havickzzz Steen. A combination of lights, cloth’s color, decoration of the room, and facial expression are used by Steen in order to express the happiness and joy that people shared and celebrated during Twelfth-Night Feast.
In Twelfth-Night Feast, Steen is focused more on the people in his painting instead of the food. His painting is about feast. People have smile in their face and enjoying the time with each other. This painting is made by oil on canvas which makes the painting looks shiny and new even though this painting is done in 1662. Also it makes the painting to look real and impressive. The size of the frame and painting is 131.1 x 164.5 cm which makes the viewer see the painting clear.
According to Novareinna, Twelfth Night is a holiday in which people celebrates the arrival of Three Kings to the birthplace of Christ. The purpose is to drive away evil spirits by making sounds of horns and the horns can be heard up to three miles away. At the beginning of the festival the king and all people who were associated with him would become peasants and vice versa. On this day a cake is baked and whoever finds the bean inside is king of the day. After twelve days of Christmas, the …show more content…
The colors go together with each other. Steen uses black, brown, green, white and yellow colors. He has mixed the colors in order to balance the darkness with the light that is coming from the fire. Also based of the clearness of the color he describes the youngest age. For instance an old man who is sitting on the corner of left hand side has not a clear view of his color cloths which make him look the oldest in the room. On the other hand, a girl who is sitting in the end left side of the table on the left corner of the table has a clear orange color on her dress which represents her young