Dragon by Theodor Severin Kittelsen (Interpretation and Analysis)
Dragon (1892) Source: WikiArt October is the season of monsters. No Halloween celebration would be complete without guests dressed as vampires, mummies, and werewolves. However, my favorite monster is something a little larger and more fiery: a dragon. Fortunately, there is one artist who celebrates mythological creatures in all their glory: Theodor Severin Kittelsen. Kittelsen—a Norwegian artist—is well-known today for his paintings and drawings representing Scandinavian legends and fairy tales. His style is charming and whimsical, imbued with the spiritual and emotional fervor of the Romantic movement. Well, Kittelsen is especially well known for his drawings and paintings of Norwegian trolls, he also produced many illustrations of dragons throughout his career. The painting I’m featuring today depicts the skeleton of a dragon, made even more fearsome and terrifying in death. The desiccated corpse lays in a shadowed cave, surrounded by scattered pieces of gold and treasure, decorated...