I found today's class very interesting with its pieces of art that accompanied the course textbook. More particularly, it was the painting by Charles Willson Peale, "Rachel Weeping," that intrigued me the most. There is so much that this painting tells from what I perceived from it. The use of light and dark colors that evoke both life and death. A hint of both time and culture are also present within this piece, that makes it that much more valuable in present time. Before today's lecture, I never knew of the customs that Americans back in these times had practiced during times of death and mourning. The display of the tying both the child's arms and the jaw is something that I have neither seen or heard of before. I was really fascinated with this painting by Peale. I hope to discover more things about this course that stir my interest, and by how things have been going thus far in class, I'm sure I will.
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