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Baroque - Bourgeious (Working Space) - Coggle Diagram
Baroque - Bourgeious (Working Space)
Johannes Vermeer
a Dutch Baroque Period painter
draw the scenes of middle class life
worked slowly and with great care
used very expensive pigments
Artworks
The Officer and the Laughing Girl (1657-1660)
Technique
Oil on canvas
translating into paint the light effects he observed
used a 'camera obscura' to achieve
used textured brushstrokes in the underpaint to develop contours
Form
Space
Shallow space at the right bottom corner
Balance
Asymmetrical balance
The girl and young man
Line
Psychic line
Eye contact between them
Colour
Warm tone colour
Red shirt of the young man
Earth colour
Texture
Stimulated texture
Soft fur
Subject matter
dashing young officer
A girl from Dutch mercantile family
Girl with the Pearl Earring (c. 1665)
Subject matter
Girl with bright eyes
Gaze front to viewer
she is about to speak
a stock character in costume
Form
Texture
Simulated texture
The clothes looks soft
Value
Soft glow
Contrast
Light and darker value
highlighting the
face and the act
Single light source
Tenebrism
Colour
Earth colour at the clothes
Space
Shallow space at the background
The background very close to foreground
Balannce
Radial balance
Technique
often overlapped colours
left gaps between them to achieve the desired effect
careful rendering of the edges of objects
Content:
young woman's face floats against a dark background, left half in shadow
She gazes out at the audience
representing characteristics of exotic or foreign lands
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch draughtsman
A painter and printmaker
Rembrandt painted approximately 100 self portraits
Artwork
Self-Portrait with Two Circles (1660)
Subject matter
he did not routinely pose himself
He is simply dressed in a fur-lined robe
engaged in drawing perfect lines to prove his superior talents
Form
Colour
Warm colour
Space
Shallow space
Value
3D value
Face looks realistic
Technique
maulstick used as a rest to steady his hands while painting
he drew a perfect circle in one single motion
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633)
Technique
The extremely detailed depiction of the scene
the polished brushstrokes
bright colors characterize
the figures' varied expressions
share an emotional experience
Subject matter
Rembrandt's only seascape
depicts the dramatic miracle
Jesus intervened to calm a violent storm on the Sea of Galilee
biblical story from the New Testament
small wind-whipped boat
Form
Value
Tenebrism
Extreme contrast
of light & dark
one light source from left
Colour
natural colour
golden light illuminating the edges of the dark clouds
Space
Shallow space
Texture
Stimulated texture
was also an avid art collector and dealer.
