#JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE THE MAGIC CIRCLE FULL#
What happens outside the circle, deserves special attention because it is also full of symbolic meaning. Inside it is closed all the energy women: herself, her magic potion, that is the power and authority over people and the future, as well as flowers, signifying purity, youth and beauty. The magic circle is a concentration of magic and protection from hostile forces. Waist women strapped a broad cloth belt, which can be surprised to discover the flowers. The neck witch is encircled by a heavy necklace in a snake - symbol of wisdom and cunning. Dress artfully decorated with diamond pattern on the cuffs and embroidery with the image of soldiers along the hem. Released strands bring forward the coal Association on the way the women style their hair in the days of pre-Christian England. Impression complements a characteristic profile that can be seen on antique vases. Black hair up in a messy hairdo that vaguely brings to mind images of Roman matrons. The fitted dress gives a fatal image of softness and grace. The woman's face, the viewer is able to discern with difficulty: it is facing a rising column of vapor. Rounded lines are contrasted sharply vertical, almost real smoke emanating from the boiler. It characterizes the magician as a sovereign not only of the real world and the supernatural.
In the Ancient East, the sickle was an essential symbol of Royal power, and in antiquity meant the division of the world of the living and the dead. In his left hand the magician holds a scythe, which is also known as the magic circle, and a shiny gold pot forms a circle and gives a special rhythm of the composition. Woman outlines in the sand with a thin cane magic circle around himself, while making it easy, if the staff moves by itself, continuing the line of the arm. She's obviously a witch, a prophetess or priestess. In the center of the composition in all growth shows a woman near a boiling pot of potion. The picture is permeated with Oriental motifs is one of the earliest Hobbies Waterhouse. And this is another feature of the painting is not a literary character and not an illustration to the poem, the play or the novel. "The magic circle" envelops these two pillars, forming a collective, but the individual appearance of the sorceress. Woman and magic for him is almost identical, they both have inexplicable power, both the power to decide the fate. The theme of magic, sorcery, and the underworld is one of the dominant in painting Waterhouse along with his famous female images. It falls in the center of his career and is the concentration of all the artistic ideas of the author. "The magic circle" - work brush Waterhouse, completed in 1886.