The blues, brown, orange, green, and yellow: they are used together beautifully in the portrait but they have definite boundaries where the colors do not mix, but instead show more clearly how they differ from each other. Just by the colors alone, one can see that the author wants to show how men and women differ. Men are free, sometimes childish, and sometimes wild. On the other hand, women are gentle, kind, but ruthless. The figure on the left is hunched over, obviously very engaged in the chess match between him and the figure on the right. As I mentioned before, men are very competitive and therefore, he wants to win. However, women also know how manipulate their opponents. The author reminds us this with the apple, to symbolize Eve’s betrayal of Adam. Women and men fight as if in a chess match, scheming and planning, this can be seen by the lightning in the background. Only when they learn how to coexist can they climb up the stairs to a calmer world, which is slightly shown under the arch of their chess game. In the portrait, it is blatantly obvious that men has and always will have the upper hand. Most of the time, men are catered to, not only by women but by the government. Laws and essentially the whole world were created to agree with men. That is the reason why the figure on the left has three male resembling figures that are there to side with him. The women, sadly has no one there to agree with her.
To Be Continued
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