Importance of gesture in Art

Essay #1 Gesture has played a very crucial role in the development of modern art. The gestures alone can tell us which time period a painting is from. In such paintings like, The Night Cafe and The Scream, gesture shows us what kind of message we should be getting when observing the paintings. The gesture shows us how we are supposed to be feeling, agitated and having a sense of isolation and fear. In many other …

…really strange person to paint something like that. In all of these paintings gesture has played a very important role. It shows us how we should react to the paintings. Gesture can express emotion, tell what time period a painting is from and show many other things. Now we can look at a painting and see that the artist painted in that manner for a specific purpose and not just to make it look pretty.