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The Morning Walk by Th. Gainsborough




 

Gainsborough is famous for his brilliant sense of composition, harmony and form.: In the foreground of the picture you see a pretty slim young woman of about 25 and an elegant young man. The woman has a very fashionable long dress on, her face is attractive. She has dreamy blue eyes and thick curly golden hair. As for the man, he is tall and handsome, the features of his face are pleasant and expressive. His eyes are dark, his look is proud, his mouth is rather large, his nose is straight, and he has; classical strong figure. I am sure that the young people are happy because they are young, they are in love, because the day is fine, and life is beautiful. It is an idyllic scene in a romantic landscape. Thanks to the soft colour treatment the picture has a lyrical and poetic atmosphere.

 

 

4. " Family Portrait"

Van Dyck created the impressive, formal type of portrait and such masters as Reynolds, Gainsborough, Lawrence and Raeburn owed much to their study of his works. He created a genre of aristocratic and Intellectual portrait which influenced much the development of English painting, Van Dyck created the type of portrait which helped him to convey the sitters individual psychology.

The sitter's individuality is vividly expressed in this portrait. One can easily follow the gentle and even character of the young woman and the outstanding searching, restless; personality of her husband. The artist managed to create the impression,of spiritual relationship in spite of the difference of characters. The colour scheme of this canvas is very beautiful. The prevailing tones are red, 'golden and brown.

 

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

What is the first thing you notice about the sitter on the painting?

What does the facial expression tell us about him or her? His or her posture? His or her gestures?

How about his or her attire? The setting? The props he or she is holding?

Do you think he or she works? What does he or she do?

Would you like to meet this person? Why or why not?

What do you think the sitter wanted his or her portrait to communicate?

What do you see that makes you say that?

1. The general effect. (The title and the name of the artist. The period or trend represented. Does it appear natural and spontaneous or contrived and artificial?)

2. The contents of the picture. (Place, time and setting. The accessories, the dress and environment. Any attempt to render the emotions of the model. What does the artist accentuate in his subject?)

3. The composition and colouring. (How is the sitter represented? Against what background? Any prevailing format? Is the picture bold or rigid? Do the hands (head, body) look natural and informal? How do the eyes gaze? Does the painter concentrate on the analysis of details? What tints predominate in the colour scheme? Do the colours blend imperceptible? Are the brushstrokes left visible?).

4. Interpretation and evaluation. (Does it exemplify a high degree of artistic skill? What feelings or ideas does it evoke in the viewer?)

 

Analyzing landscapes:

 

To start with close your eyes and think about an outdoor space that means something to you. It can be a place you have visited, your homeland, or a place they have lived in. Think of all the details you can remember about a typical day at this place, such as the weather, what was nearby, who you were with, what you were doing, etc. Describe their meaningful place focusing on the following questions:

What does it look like? What is in the foreground? Middle ground? Background? From what point of view are you seeing the landscape?

 

Study the following descriptions:

 

1. Bruegel's use of landscape defies easy interpretation, and demonstrates perhaps the artist's greatest innovation. Working in the aftermath of the Reformation, Bruegel was able to separate his landscapes from long-standing iconographic tradition, and achieve a contemporary and palpable vision of the natural world. For the Antwerp home of the wealthy merchant Niclaes Jongelinck, who owned no less than sixteen of the artist's works, Bruegel executed a series of paintings representing the Seasons, of which five survive: Gloomy Day, Return of the Herd, Hunters in the Snow (all Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum), Haymaking (Prague, Národní Galerie), and The Harvesters (19.164). Though rooted in the legacy of calendar scenes, Bruegel's emphasis is not on the labors that mark each season but on the atmosphere and transformation of the landscape itself. These panoramic compositions suggest an insightful and universal vision of the worlda vision that distinguishes all the work of their remarkable creator, Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

 

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap The Hunters in the Snow

 

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Look at the landscape painting. Try to answer these questions:

If you were in this picture, what would you?

hear?

smell?

feel?

What would you have with you?

Who would you take with you to this place?

Were would you like to be in the picture?

If you were standing in that spot, what is the first thing you would notice about this place?

Do you think this place is real or imaginary? Why or why not?

 

 

Analyzing narrative paintings ( genre painting):

Begin with the following questions:

Why do we tell stories?

How do we learn about stories?

Are they always truthful?

 

Study the following descriptions:

 

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The colouring of the picture is amazing. The artist uses the entire gamut of the pallet from the white to the black. His blues, yellows and blacks are of very high saturation, and yet that does not turn the picture into a merely decorative canvas.

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What is most amazing is that the image of the boyarina, forceful as it is, dominates the canvas without obliterating the crowd. The painter created a gallery of types of characters, one more striking than the other. A most gripping picture, really.

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Oh yes, you don't forget such a face in a hurry. And how well did the artist capture the expression of this proud face and the drama of the moment!

 

3. During the 18th century the truly national school of painting was created, William Hogarth was the first great English painter who raised British pictorial art to a high level of importance. Hogarth (16971764) wasn't a success as a portrait painter. But his pictures of social life which he called "modern moral subjects" brought him fame and position. Among his favourite works are six pictures united under the title "Marriage a la Mode." This famous series is really a novel in paint telling the story of the marriage of earl's son and city merchant's daughter, a marriage made for reasons of vanity and money. Despite the satirical, often amusing details, the painter's purpose is serious. He expects his pictures to be read and they are perhaps full of allusions. At the same time Hogarth remained an artist and passages especially in "Shortly after the Marriage" show how attractively he could paint. The free handing of the "Shrimp Girl" is combined with cockney vivacity. The girl is brushed onto the canvas in a vigorous impressive style. As a painter Hogarth was harmonious in his colouring, very capable and direct in his theme land composition. He painted many pictures. He is well known as a humorist and satirist on canvas.

 

The Marriage Settlement The Tête à Tête The Lady's Death

 

 

Bruegel, Peasant wedding

4. One of the most perfect of Bruegel's human comedies is his famous picture of a country wedding. Like most pictures, it loses a great deal in reproduction: all details become much smaller, and we must therefore look at it with double care. The feast takes place in a barn, with straw stacked up high in the background. The bride sits in front of a piece of blue cloth, with a kind of crown suspended over her head. She sits quietly, with folded hands and a grin of utter contentment on her stupid face. The old man in the chair and the woman beside her are probably her parents, while the man farther back, who is so busy gobbling his food with his spoon, may be the bridegroom. Most of the people at the table concentrate on eating and drinking, and we notice this is only the beginning. In the left-hand corner a man pours out beer - a good number of empty jugs are still in the basket - while two men with white aprons are carrying ten more platefuls of pie or porridge on an improvised tray. One of the guests passes the plates to the table. But much more is going on. There is the crowd in the background trying to get in; there are the musicians, one of them with a pathetic, forlorn and hungry look in his eyes, as he watches the food being carried past; there are the two outsiders at the corner of the table, the friar and the magistrate, engrossed in their own conversation; and there is the child in the foreground, who has got hold of a plate, and a feathered cap much too large for its little head, and who is completely absorbed in licking the delicious food - a picture of innocent greed. But what is even more admirable than all this wealth of anecdote, wit and observation, is the way in which Bruegel has organized his picture so that it does not look crowded or confusing. Tintoretto himself could not have produced a more convincing picture of a crowded space than did Bruegel with his device of the table receding into the background and the movement of people starting with the crowd at the barn door, leading up to the foreground and the scene of the food carriers, and back again through the gesture of the man serving the table who leads our eyes directly to the small but central figure of the grinning bride.

 

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

What moment in the story has this artist chosen to portray?

What is happening at this moment?

How does the artist help us understand this moment in the story?

What do you think is happening in the work of art?

What do you see that makes you say that?

Who do you think is the main character of this story?

Do you recognize any of the characters? If so, how?

What can we say about these characters?

Describe the relationship between the different characters.

Describe the setting.

What time of day is it?

What season is it?

Where does this scene take place?

What do you think happened ten minutes before this scene?

What do you think will happen ten minutes later?

 





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