Yesterday I was made aware that I need to be careful putting pictures up here due to copyrights and all that stuff. Thankfully, blogger has some websites that it claims are safe so here it goes.
The Dutch have trucked out some serious artists, most during the 19th century. I'm not much of an art connoisseur, so thank you internet.
Vincent van Gogh - Born in 1853 in southern Netherlands. He was a Post-Impressionist painter who battled mental illness his whole life. Famously cutting of his ear and mailing it. The story goes that he cut off a portion of his left ear lobe and put it in an envelope which he gave to a brothel wench and told her to "Guard this object carefully."
To the left is his most famous painting entitled Starry Night. He also painted many self-portaits. Again, I'm no expert, but he seems to have a very distinct style. An expert described it as blots of colorful paints when placed next to each other trick the eye into seeing movement. He painted things like people, landscapes, and objects.
Van Gogh died in 1890 at the age of 37, taking his own life. Interestingly, (this is debated) he only sold one painting during his life. He didn't become 'famous' until much after his death.
Jan van Eyck, was a Flemish (part of the Netherlands) painter from medieval times. He is called the father of oil painting because he was the first to ever use it.
ReplyDelete*He did the painting called "the Arnolfini marriage", it is the picture with the ugly guy in a black hat is holding this girls hand who is in a green dress and looks pregnant.*
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