While Nicole was in Nora’s office, I noticed a strange photograph on the wall of Nora’s office:
What is so good about this photo? Why do you want to take pictures of tourists looking at the paintings in the art gallery? What is the meaning of the photographer taking this photo? Why is the center of gravity of the composition of this photo squeezed to the right, with a small painting on the left, and an empty chair on purpose?
This was my first reaction when I noticed this work.
I didn’t find the original picture of this photo, but because its scene is particularly like it was taken in the Brera Gallery in Milan, and I just want to go to Brera for a few days, so I went to Brera to find it. The plan of this painting in the photo.
Sure enough, I found it in Brellari:
Brera should have been refurbished in the past few years. Not only has the wall color changed, but the location of many exhibits has also been changed, so the small painting hanging on the left side of this painting in the photographs is gone.
Let's take a look at the original picture of this painting:
This painting is Cena in casa di Simone ("Dinner at Simon's House") painted by the Italian painter Paolo Veronese for the Venetian Monastery . It is a work in the Veronese dinner series. The work depicts the scene where Simon invites Jesus to dinner and Jesus forgives Mary Magdalene. At the feast, Simon told Jesus that Mary Magdalene was a local sinner, but Jesus answered Simon: "I came to your house and you did not give me water to wash my feet, but she washed my feet with tears. And dry it with her hair. You did not welcome me with kissing etiquette, but she kept kissing my feet since I came in. You did not use oil on my head, but she wiped my feet with perfume I tell you, the deep love she expressed proves that many of her sins have been forgiven."
Generally speaking, the main body and focus of the artwork will be placed in the center of the picture, but Veronese drew a cat and a dog fighting for food in the center of the picture. But the focus of the work-Jesus and Magdalene's Maria, was placed on the leftmost position by the painter.
Jesus was not looking at Mary Magdalene, but at what happened at the feast on the right side of the screen. He is watching adults, children, cats and dogs, and observing all the secular plots that happen in the world.
Now when I look back at that photographic work, I can reasonably explain why the photographer vacated the leftmost chair.
The photographer imitated Veronese's special composition, allowing Jesus' observation object to pass through a two-dimensional oil painting, and at the same time, it is included in the real life of human beings.
In this scene of "Marriage Story", the director also imitated the photographer's composition method, placing Nicole on the far right of the sofa, once again sublimating the original oil painting where Jesus observes all the secular stories happening on the right. Scene.
This is the scene where Nicole meets Nora for the first time. Nora is sitting on the left, listening to Nicole.
When Nicole talked to Nora in the office for the last time, Nora told Nicole that women have been responsible for perfection since ancient times and cannot have any flaws, but people can accept that men are irresponsible. When Jesus died, his mother was with him. Not only did the God who created Jesus not come out to help, but even his father Giuseppe did not come out to contribute a sperm when his mother was conceived.
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When the photographer was composing the picture, he also took a small picture on the left to make up for the vacancy of the seat on the left. Although the small painting in Brelari is gone, I found the original painting of this painting, which is a self-portrait of a painter depicting the coming of Jesus.
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