The Outcast, Picture Analysis

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This picture is an oil painting made by Richard Redgrave, in 1851. This painting depicts a family’s reaction to a daughter bearing an “illegitimate” child. This painting was made during the Victorian age, a period of time in which there was prosperity for the United Kingdom. The focus point is a woman who is kneeling to a man because she is at the center of the painting and she is presented in bright colors. She is a Caucasian woman, she has brown and wavy hair, and she is wearing a yellow shirt, a dark long skirt and black shoes. By the woman who is on her knees, is a Caucasian man with curt and gray hair, but he is rather balding. He is wearing a brown Jacket, a pink shirt and black pants and shoes. He holds an open door and points out. Next to the open door, at the right side of the painting is a Caucasian woman with long straight and brown hair who is bearing a baby. She is wearing a red blanket, and black skirt and shoes. At the left side of the painting, is a man sitting on a chair and lying on a table. He is a Caucasian man wearing a black jacket, white pants and dark shoes. Next to that man, is a woman with a hand on that man and with the other hand on the table and she is looking at the man holding the open door. She is a Caucasian woman with a kerchief on her head, and she is wearing a red dress. In the background, at the left, is Caucasian woman with long straight and light brown hair, she is wearing a black dress and she is looking at the man on the other side. In the background, at the right, is a man up against the wall, he is a Caucasian man with long straight and brown hair, he has a white band on his head and wears a brown shirt. All this characters are in a dimly lit, with a closed door in the background and a painting on the wall. This painting depicts a stern patriarch of inflexible puritanical morality casting out a “fallen woman”
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