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A Pair of Skating Owls | 25 mai 2008

 

 

Artist
Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne

Technique
Engraving
 

Year
17th C.

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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn | 24 mai 2008

 

 

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

 

 

Using vigorous lines Rembrandt has drawn a corpulent man leaning across a table-top with his arms crossed. The man's floppy hat tilts forward slightly, casting a shadow onto his podgy face. Rembrandt used brown gallnut ink - a type containing iron - and this has run in most places in the portrait. He used his finger to smear the ink to indicate shadow. The subject is Willem Ruyter, an actor who features in several of Rembrandt's drawings. On this occasion Rembrandt portrays him as a peasant, wearing a smock and a shapeless hat. Ruyter may have performed frequently in the 'boertigheden', popular burlesques with a country yokel in the principal role, a favourite at Amsterdam's theatres.

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Title Pierrot (Oudezijds Achterburgwal) | 08 avril 2008

Title Pierrot (Oudezijds Achterburgwal)

Year 1889

Artist James Abott McNeill Whistler

Technique Ink on paper/Dry-point and etching

Dimensions 22,9 x 16,1 cm





The back of a house reflected in the water of an Amsterdam canal. There are two people in the doorway on the waterfront: a man leaning against a post (a dreamy figure, perhaps the Pierrot of the title?) and a woman leaning over the water. The building and the water are rendered with rough areas of hatching which leave large areas of black. A vague reflection of the two figures is visible in the water. James McNeill Whistler made this print in 1889, when he spent two months in the Netherlands. In fact, the artist visited this country several times. He found the rivers and canals inspiring and was especially enthralled by Amsterdam. In a series of prints he recorded his favourite parts of the city: the picturesque canals of the slum areas with their delapidated houses and rows of washing lines.

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Woodcuts from portfolio Der begeisterte Weg | 13 mars 2008

One of the most potent graphic cycles is the series of wood cut illustrations
by the Dresden Secession artist Constantin von Mitschke-Collande
for the Walter Georg Hartmann's allegorical book
Der Begeisterte Weg ( The Inspired Way; ) Haartmann
tells of a young soldier who experiences the beginnings of the Revolution,
the funeral of Liebknecht, and the outbreak of street violence, during which he was killed.
His spirit does not die; it wanders through revolutionary Germany, observing.
Mitschke-Collande focuses on the religious salvation promissed in hartmann's text.
He combines images from the Crucifixion and the Revelation of St. John
( for instance, the horsemen of the Apocalypse ) to intertwine Expressionists
religious imagery and a message about revolution.
The illustrations are a symbol of the political and spiritual awakening
of the second-generation Expressionists.
They reflect the crossroads that many artists felt they had reached.
Mitschke-Collande's style also reflects that eclecticism of the second generation.

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Woodcuts from portfolio Der begeisterte Weg | 13 mars 2008

Constantin von Mitschke-Collande

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