Carolino’s O mundo fez-se grande and Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps both portray what one expects to be pleasant themes — the opening up of the world and the coming of spring — unpleasantly. The painting and song to me feel somber, uneasy and aggressive. Carolino’s painting is made out of six canvases glued to each other, which have stripes of canvas sown on top of them to create texture. This, to me, creates fragmentation, unpredictability and discontinuity in color, which matches the unpredictability, dissonances and rhythmic conflicts we experience in Le Sacre du Printemps.
Carolina Lacs, Psychology, Class of 2021
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