This bold composition reveals the influence of the flat, patterned surfaces, simplified color, and unusual angles of Japanese prints, which enjoyed a huge vogue in Paris in the late 1800s. The dark figure of the man compresses the picture onto the flat plane of the canvas, and the horizon is pushed to the top, collapsing a sense of distance.
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Resource Educational Resource: Civil War and Its Aftermath In a time when the nation
Art for the Nation no. 64 (Fall 2021): 20-21, repro.
[1942]: 1-4. 1944 „Kress Makes Important Donation of French Painting to the Nation
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
The Nation (8 March 1911): 1000–1001. Holmes, Charles John.
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Adriaen Brouwer was one of the most expressive artists of the 17th century. His great contribution to genre painting was to give a face to the peasant, to infuse his images of these lower-class individuals with recognizable and vividly expressed human emotions—anger, joy, pain, and pleasure.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 8, fig. 16. 2000 Art for the Nation
Renoir had his girlfriend Lise Tréhot pose as the ancient Roman goddess Diana. He chose a mythological subject and painted it at grand scale in hopes of getting this picture into the largest art show of the time, the Salon.
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Gerrit van Honthorst (1592–1656) has long been considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. After training in Utrecht, he traveled to Italy around 1615, where he embraced the radical stylistic and thematic ideas of Caravaggio.
Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 50 (Spring 2014): 2-19, repro. 2015 „Art for the Nation
Paris, 1925: 189. 1944 „Kress Makes Important Donation of French Painting to the Nation
