Time - Art

The Coach to Louveciennes 1870

by

Camille Pissarro 

 

In this painting Pissarro captures Musee D’Orsay Street in Paris Prance. He captures the cold days of Autumn. The trees are changing leaves and the weather is dull and gloomy. The colours are set on a dark shaded scheme. It look like a storm has just passed as all the umbrellas are closed. The time is set to be in the late afternoon, sunset to be exact. This piece of work is of the early impressionists. Camille was a very important focal point in the group at that time

Time - Film

The movie starts of with a man not accepting the lost of his son during the war. This man wanted to turn back time before his son went to war. He built this clock that works anticlockwise trying the turn back time. He displayed this clock in a Museum. Time passed and this couple went to this museum. They ended getting pregnant. While the wife was giving birth she died and the father just couldn't bare the loss of his wife. He grabbed the baby and rushed out of the house without saying a word. After running for quiet a while he stopped and took a look at the baby. The baby was hideous, old, wrinkly and disturbing. The father got shocked and left the baby in front of an elderly home. The housekeeper Queenie (Taraji P. Henson) picked him up and took him inside. She was horrified at first but then accepted that he was a child of God and she decided to take care of him. She named him Benjamin.

Days passes by and instead of this baby growing up to be a year old Benjamin  (played my Brad Pit) was getting younger. He was old in age but young in body and he was getting younger instead of older. He went to school with a 7 year old body but a face of an old man. Benjamin never gave up. In time he would eventually learn and grow.

Eventually Benjamin became a young adult and met a Daisy (Cate Blanche). He fell in love with her and they built a relationship. They had a daughter together and named her Caroline (Julia Ormond). Although she is not quiet seen in the movie.

She found out about his case and she started to take care of him as he started growing young. Everyday she was afraid that she was going to loose him. She was getting old and he was growing young.

Time passed and he became a baby. He died in her arms never knowing what and why this happened to him and why he had to live his life so different from everyone else.

This film is all about time. He has to adapt to his life and by time get used to the idea that he is not like everyone else. He has to face a lot of criticism and problems along the way. He grew young forgetting how to walk, how to talk just like a normal new born baby. The ending is very sad seeing a baby dying after all that he's been trough and not living a very easy life. His time wasn't normal and he could never have a normal life and time didn't allow him.

Time - Design

 

 

 

A sarcophagus is funeral box for a dead body. It is normally  carved in stone, and displayed above ground, but some were also buried underground. In ancient Egypt they used a sarcophagus to bury the body of a royal mummy. They also used to lay her in several different types of coffins before put in the sarcophagus. Normally the sarcophagus was carved with the outer details of the person being buried into it. Here we can see that this design took time and patience to make as it requires delicate handling and perfection. Design of ancient Egypt has changed by time and has become simpler and easier to look at. Also this funeral box is going to hold a person for eternity in it and therefore it has a lot of meaning. By time coffin designs became much simpler and therefore more comfortable.

Time - Film

 

In Time - 2011

Director : Andrew Niccol

Writer : Andrew Niccol

Stars : Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy 

 

In time is based in a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year. Only the wealthy people have a chance to live forever but buying a very expensive shot of immortal youth. Here, Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) talks to Henry (Matt Bomer) a wealthy guy who has grown to be 105 and is fed up of life. Will tells Henry how he would not waste his time if it was limitless. Henry gives Will his shot of immortal youth and commits suicide. Will finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage as he takes her away during a party. This theft turns out to be a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system. Here we see that this film is all about time. Time is everything and people pay an enormous sum to buy it. The poor suffer and die young. Will does everything in his power to change this and make everyone even when it comes to life. Their life's depend on the stopwatch that they are born with printed on their hand. When the time is up they die. All this depends on time, 25 years of life, you have to make the best of it and make your time count. On the other hand rich people don't care about time as they have all the time they want.

 

 

Time - Design

This is the Maltese 'Il-Mara il Hoxna'. It was found in the Hal Tarxien temples located in Malta which were built in the Pre-Historic Times. This figure was very popular in that time as the bigger in size you were the richer you are. The design was carved entirely of out tools made out of bones, wood and rocks. Here we can see this sculpture capturing a moment in time and showing us the culture and modernism of that time. Unfortunately  we do not know who the designer is but what we do know is that they are pieces which will be kept as Malta's treasures.

Time - Art

This painting is titled 'Ophelia' by John Everett Millais (1829-1869). John formed part of the Pre-Raphaelites towards the middle of the 19th Century together with 6 more of his friends. The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of students that were against the meaning of art at that time. While critics and historians adored Raphael as the great master of the Renaissance, the young students rebelled against what they saw. They went against the predictability of academic art and turned to the simplicity of Italian painters that came before Raphael.  In this painting John got inspired from Shakespeare's play called 'Hamlet'. In this scene we can see Ophelia, Hamlet's lover drowning in the lake. He used oil on canvas and he spent four months painting with a real body in the water and the vegetation on the same spot in Surrey, England. Here we see how art can really capture a moment in time and show us the true meaning of Rebellion. Also we can see the movement of the Pre-Raphaelites and the stand they were taking to show the true meaning of what art meant.