THE SWING

A description of a work of Art... by Carly Glow

The swing is an oil panting that was created in between the years 1767 and 1768 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, a French artist. In this work of art, we can see a young lady in a swing and, on the grass, a man looking beneath her skirt. Its style is rococo, and it’s very detailed.

In the middle of the painting there’s a woman in a big pink dress on a swing. Her feet are pointing towards a statue while her shoe is falling off. We can see that there’s a man hiding in the bushes, pointing with a hat on his hand to what’s beneath the girl’s dress. Behind her, there is a man pushing the girl.

It is known that the man on the floor requested this painting taken with his mistress (the girl on the swing), in those years it was normal and pretty common.

Fragonard uses soft colors, such as pink, used in the girl’s dress, green for the forest, and a little bit of yellow for the bright parts.

To sum up, the painter was able to express the eroticism his client wanted in a subtle way. I think this masterpiece is beautiful, the colors, the technique…

Carly Glow is now making it through her last year in compulsory secondary education at MITVAL school. She is a proficient reader,  very fond of books, paintings and any type of artistic expression. She also shows a high profile when it comes to use English so as to produce any type of written texts which are usually filled with original descriptions and subtle details.