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Frans Hals | 27 février 2008





Title Company of Captain Reinier Reael, known as the 'Meagre Company'

Year 1637

Artist Frans Hals ( Pieter Codde )

Technique Oil on canvas

Dimensions 209 x 429 cm



Just to see that painting would make the journey to Amsterdam worthwhile.' wrote Vincent van Gogh in 1885, after having seen this work in the Rijksmuseum. He particularly liked the 'orange banner in the left corner,' he had 'seldom seen a more divinely beautiful figure'. The painting that caused such a sensation was the group portrait of the crossbowmen's militia under Captain Reinier Reael, painted by Frans Hals and Pieter Codde in 1637. The painting has been known for centuries as the 'Meagre Company', because the figures portrayed all appear remarkably thin.

In 1633 Frans Hals was commissioned to paint the portraits of Captain Reynier Reael and Lieutenant Cornelis Michielsz. Blaeuw with their militia unit. He had to paint the picture in Amsterdam, where the militiamen lived. Hals himself lived in Haarlem; which meant that he had to travel back and forth regularly.
The Amsterdam civic guard had asked Frans Hals because of his reputation for lively civic guard portraits, and because he avoided staid, formally posed group portraits. But the militiamen could not have taken into account that Hals might start to find commuter travel tedious.

Publié par MMaxi à 01:00:47 dans Art | Commentaires (0) |

Artist Cornelis Troost | 19 février 2008



The Spendthrift

Title The Spendthrift', Act III, Scene V, from the play of the same name by Thomas Asselijn

Year 1741

Artist Cornelis Troost

Technique Oil on panel

Dimensions 68,5 x 86 cm


This tableau shows a scene from the farce 'The Spendthrift or the Wasteful Woman' written by Thomas Asselijn in 1693. Joanna, the woman in the white dress spends money like water, buying the most extravagant items. Her father and husband have disguised themselves as Polish Jewish traders. They plan to catch Joanna trying to sell her expensive clothes for a pittance. She intends to use the money to by new valuables. The eighteenth-century painter Cornelis Troost has turned this into a colourful scene.

Publié par MMaxi à 17:59:17 dans Art | Commentaires (0) |

Gerard Dou masterpieces | 14 février 2008





This is not a picture of a man smoking a pipe, but a picture of a painting of a man smoking a pipe. In front of the painting-within-a-painting hangs a green curtain on a copper rail. It is so realistic you might even mistake it for a real curtain - in the seventeenth century it was not uncommon to protect paintings from strong light. Gerard Dou tried to trick the viewer into actually attempting to draw the curtain. Meanwhile the artist looks on: the man with the pipe in the window is Gerard Dou himself.

Title Self Portrait

Year c. 1650

Artist Gerard Dou

Technique Oil on panel

Dimensions 48 x 37 cm

Publié par MMaxi à 05:18:44 dans Art | Commentaires (0) |

mmaxi08 Art - slideshow - diaporama | 24 janvier 2008

 

+ see full slideshow - voir diapo

Publié par MMaxi à 00:05:35 dans Art | Commentaires (0) |

C.Gama08 | 23 janvier 2008




 +check the link here

I remember in the old days when there was football on the box on the 15 min. break this was the kind of thing they used to put on.
Now there is only, drink this eat that and take this pain killer not that one.

I did not know then, it was music by Wagner or that Brünnhilde could be so charming.

A new year is here not any different than the last, but change is in the wind.
Strange weather, Financial turmoil, Sarko portraying himself as a celebrity, Bush pardoning himself and his administration, for Human violations.
A wet Spring, a hot Summer great Art I think that these are good times to creat Art .
The games in China 
A possible demo-crate on the Oval Office. "knock on wood"

I say let it come 2008
C.Gama08

 

 
 

Publié par MMaxi à 05:57:50 dans Art | Commentaires (0) |

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