Sunday, February 19, 2012

Seductive Orient

Potiphar’s Wife a modern Illustration, maybe from a religious book for children.

Despite the costumes and architecture seem well done it’s anything but a good painting. The gestures are ridiculous, it looks much more as if they are playing or acting in a cheap theatre. But above all it’s very interesting that she is depicted as an oriental woman our hero in contrast looks like an all American boy.

3 comments:

  1. Artist: Del Parson, illustration for LDS Church teaching material.

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  2. Thanks for the information. Just discovered that he did a lot of these paintings.

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