This is one of the "Fifty Great Illustrations of the 20th Century" presented by National Society of Illustrators in 2003. This collection include works of the biggest artist inter alia author of this image Jone Jude Palencar and what suprise me he is really popular in the U.S and Europe. He created illustrations for the most famous book like couple covers of Stephen King and also in 2003 for Eragon. Even a lot of private and corporate collections use his illustrations.
I chose this illustration because it fits to the theme of the lesson and contain symbols. It's pretty scary but in other hand intresting. When we first see this art we first pay attention for this face. It's like evil face or dead face. Anyway it's remind us something very bad. This is the face of Macbeth. This i a face of morderer. He wanted power so much that he could even kill to just achieve his goal. He took lives of innocent people. Those who didn't do anything. Those who in according to Macbeth were able to have more power of those who knew too much. He even killl his best friends Banco. Other symbol in this pic is crown. Crown means power,king, commands, wealth, decisions. He wanted it all. After meeting with witches and knowing the future he became so selfish and bad. He wanted to eliminate all of those who can possibly take his place. We can see that on the crown is something more. Those are small bodies of his victims. The are put on the crown because that means that he had to eliminate them to be a king or this is the price of this power. His jacket or whatever he wear symbolise that no matter what he was a human. He was a person who act like he is an evil who cause death of innocent people.
Sources:
1) http://www.uvu.edu/museum/exhibitions/2003_exhibit_archive.html
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jude_Palencar
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