Art+in+Day+of+the+Locust

__Alessandro Magnasco __ (1667-1749)

Chapter 19: “One Friday night in the ‘Tabernacle of the Thrid Coming’, a man near Tod stood up to speak. Although his name most likely was Thompson or Johnson and his home town Sioux City, he had the same countersunk eyes, like the heads of burnished spikes, that a monk by __Magnasco__ might have.”
 * "The Tame Magpie"**


 * A Friar Tempted by Demons, **1660-65

#4 This is how I picture Claude's house[[image:southern-living-home.jpg]]
===="He had lately begun to think not only of Goya and Daumier but also of certain Italian artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of Salvator Rosa, Francesco Guardi and Monsu Desiderio, the painters of Decay and Mystery" (132).====

**__Francisco Goya__**
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=__Salvator Rosa__= == = = =__Francesco Guardi__= == = = == = =

=__Monsu Desiderio__=



=**__Winslow Homer__**=

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"They wanted to talk about certain lively matters of universa interest, but she insisted on discussing Gertrude Stein and Juan Gris," (73). Figure of a Woman and Front of a Window by Juan Gris

//The Third Class Carriage// by Honore Daumier
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** //Crispin and Scapin// **by Honore Daumier Image of Sappho, Daumier, 1842

Two Sculptors by Honore Daumier** Thomas Ryder

Though he doesn't name any particular medieval artist, artists of the Middle Ages are mentioned on page 107. The style is related to Faye's stories in that whenever an artist would deal with a miraculous topic, such as the raising of Lazarus from the dead, he/she would keep the details realistic. I've posted two paintings below from the Middle Ages that depict Lazarus's raising.



"From the moment he had seen them, he had known that,despite his race, training and heritage, neither Winslow Homer nor Thomas Ryder could be his masters and he turned to Goya and Daumier (2). " Winslow Homer painting

Thomas Ryder painting

Goya painting

Daumier Painting

"For all his size and shape, he looked neither strong nor fertile. He was like one of Picasso's great sterile athletes, who brood hopelessly on pink sand, staring at veined marble waves" (83).

Winslow Homer



Reminds me of the previous picture of the Ass playing the piano and reading his musical assnotes. This picture carries a different tone however, more of a heavy lies the crown/loss of innocence tone.

Chapt. 14. Faye, Earle, Tod, looking at miguel's fighting cocks.

Francisco Goya The Colossus


 * Fire of Babylon**, Artist Unknown



This picture is representative of the painting Todd repeatedly talks about creating called 'The Burning of Los Angeles'. The way Los Angeles is talked about and described in the novel, it made me think of the ancient city of Babylon. Babylon was regarded as a cultural mecca, the meeting place of all races, creeds, colors, denominations, etc. It's also where all the money was made, and where people went to become famous, hence it reminding me of Los Angeles and Hollywood.


 * The** **Burning of the House of Parliament** by J.M.W. Turner (1834)



I would have to agree with the person above me. I thought Todd's repeating of his painting "The Burning of Los Angeles" and thought that it would be something that would kind of look like this. The fire would be central to his painting and he would want to make that clear. Having little to no people in the painting can sever the emotional tie of Los Angeles, because people go there to die and once you die you're kind of forgotten.

"**Le Reve**" Pablo Picasso

This is a Picasso piece titled "Le Reve" (The Dream). The model for this painting was Marie-Therese Walter, Picasso's longtime mistress and mother to his daughter, Maya. I chose this because it made me think of Faye, and her life in the novel. Marie-Therese, like Faye, was only 17 years old when she became involved with Picasso. She lived in the shadow of his wife, and later was left by Picasso, alone with their daughter. With the life that Faye leads, it doesn't seem likely that she'll ever become more than someone's flavor of the moment unless she's able to rise above it all.

Walt Disney and Salvador Dali

Dali's and Goya have similarly 'grotesque' styles.

Here is a painting by Goya that nicely represents the novel. The characters in the novel represent hungry locusts in the biblical sense. They swarm, they stare, and they feed off of others, without serving much purpose other than reproducing. They add nothing to society, and instead, seem to actually feed off of the contributions that others make. I thought that this painting was interesting because the figures in it do not seem to be aware that they are grotesques, they are dancing around without a thought in their minds, much like some of the characters described in West's novel.



Francisco Goya "Grotesque Dance"