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the late seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries, Holland, seventeenth…
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Holland, seventeenth century
There was a distinction between
- southern Netherlands (Belgium) = which remained Cathloc
and
- Northern provinces of the netherlands = which became protestant
These dutch Northern Burghers of the seventeenth century;
- never accepted the full baroque style which held sway in Catholic Europe
- even in architecture they prefeered a certain sober restraint
The most imporatnt of these branches that could continue in a Portestant community, was portrait painting
Frans hals 1580-1666
- Hals knew; how to attain the impression of balance without appearing to follow any rule
- Art shifted. Then as now, the public liked to know what it was getting. Once a painter had made a name as a master of battle-pieces, it was battle-pieces he would be most likely to sell
Thus it camea bout that the trend towards specilisation
which had begun in the
- northern countries in the sixteenth century
was carried to even
- greater extremes in the seventeenth
simon de vlieger 1601-53
- It shows how these Dutch artists
could convey the atmosphere of the sea by wonderfully simple and unpretentious means
- These Dutchmen were the first in the history of art to discover the beauty of the sky
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Rembrandt van RIjn 1606-69
- We feel that we know Rembrandt more intimately than any of the great masters, because Van Rijn left us an amazing record of his life in a series of self-portraits
- He observed himself in a mirror with complete sincerety
- There is no trace of a pose, no trace of vanity just the penetrating gaze of a painter who scrutinizes his own features ever ready to learn more and more about the secrets of the human face.
- Rembrandt needs hardly any gestures or movements to express the inner meaning of a scene. He is never theatrical
Like
Caravaggio, he valued truth and sincerity above harmony and beauty.
- We have seen how the inventions of Claude so captured the imagination of his admirers in England that they tried to transform the actual scenery of their native land and make it conform to the creations of the painter.
- a landscape or a garden which made them think of Claude they called picturesque like a picture
Etchin
- Instead of laboriously scratching the surface of the copper
plate,
**the artist covers the plate with wax and draws on it with a
needle. **
There is a
visible difference between the laborious and slow work of the burin and the free and easy play of the etcher’s needle.
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And the dutch speciallists who spent their lives painting the same kind of subject matter ended up proving that the subject matter was secondary importance
The greatest of these masters was: Jan Vermeer van Delft 1632-76
- most of the painting show simple figures standing in a room of a typically dutch house
- With vermeer genre painting has lost the last trace of humorous illustration
- his paintings are really still lifes with human beigns
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