It's a door sized-oil painting which was used in the film adaptation of the book "The Picture Of Dorian Grey" directed by Albert Lewin in the 1940s. As the painting was a important prop in the movie, the painting itself had to be painted along as the movie was being filmed. It had to show that the picture was changing along with the protagonist as he faces misery, hatred, anger and the death of his loved ones as the days go by, and the painting would change along with him. Turning it into a hideous monster over the years. Making the painting a mirror image of his sins.
Personally, I chose this artpiece because I felt that the composition was really well done. Even though the painting was cramped with many things, you could tell that the main focus was the man in the middle. And although there were many colours used on the painting, it was still a problem back then. As there were only black and white back in the 40s, colours couldn't be shown on the big screen. So they had to play around with the composition and colours to make the painting an iconic thing.
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