Artwork from a Different Perspective

by Azaleia Lorenzo

As I walked into the Appleton Museum it brought me back to when I was just eight years old on a field trip with my school. I thought to myself I never remember it being this beautiful. Arthur I. Appleton gifted the city of Ocala with this beautiful museum that was established in 1982 ("History of the Appleton”). Walking around the exhibit I had a better appreciation for the art that was constructed by each artist. It was much more fascinating to me now than it was when I was eight. Each of the paintings I saw made me see a story within them. I looked at each of the paintings and sculptures in awe wondering how amazing each piece of art was. Every detail was beautiful and mesmerizing. The time spent on these artworks had to be incredibly tedious. The creativity that the artists portrayed was outstanding and made me wonder what exactly was their state of mind during the process of creating these masterpieces.

My favorite painting of the entire museum was in the European and American Gallery. The painting was called “When Love Is Young,” a painting by an Italian artist named Vittorio Matteo Corcos. His paintings are made with oil on a canvas. He pays attention to the detail of the colors in his paintings. Corcos is well known for painting images of men and women in beautiful clothes and their composition (“Vittorio Matteo Corcos”).

When Love is Young

When I look at this painting the first thing I can tell is emotion. The emotion I see between the two people in the painting is intimacy. I think the creator's mental state while creating this painting was maybe he was missing his wife or loved one and decided to depict a painting on his feelings. Since there is a chair in the painting and the sailor is on the other side of the railings it seems to me as if the two are separated for some time when he leaves for sea. As the man is gone the women sits waiting for her loved one to return back to her. I can see a possible sense of the two suffering minor depression when they are apart until they are together again united happily. I could also sense some separation anxiety as the woman has a chair beside her waiting for the return of her lover. It seems as if she cannot bear to do anything else but think of when he will come back, so she sits and waits.

The feeling that I get when I see this painting is contentment. The image clearly shows that the two young lovers have been apart from each other, and as they reunite the emotions and joy of their love is shown by the way that they look at each other. When two people are young in love they, cannot even imagine being away from each other, so the painting exhibits an appropriate depiction of what love may be seen as.

Works Cited 

"History of the Appleton." College of Central Florida Appleton Museum of Art,

         2016, appletonmuseum.org/about/history/

"Vittorio Matteo Corcos: Biography." Artnet,   
         2016, http://www.artnet.com/artists/vittorio-matteo-corcos/biography