GWAR - We Kill Everything

At the beginning of the 19th century, a portrait painted in oil was a piece of art and contained a special meaning, hidden or explicit. In this regard, Mehler’s portrait of Beethoven as the "Orpheus of our day" precisely followed the tradition of ceremonial allegorical depiction, although it was physiognomically accurate. In the portrait of the work of Neugass, he presented an idealized and romanticized image of Beethoven, close to the then notions of aristocratic masculine beauty. Moreover, nothing here indicates that we have a musician and an artist. Not a conditional lyre, not a statue of Apollo, not a music scroll, not a pen with an inkwell. Only a person looking somewhere to the side, and a strict, but elegant outfit. In the background you can see a gloomy sky with thunderclouds - the background is somewhat normal for romantic portraits,but very suited to the image of Beethoven.