Most famous Flemish painter in the 16th century. Died at age 44. Traveled to many places, painting, studying. Worked in the printmaking business, engravings, also known for his realistic ways of art. Pieter Bruegel the elder, aka Peasant Bruegel, because he would dress as a peasant to mingle at weddings and parties. That way he could find information about the life of peasants for his paintings. Pieter Bruegel was born on September 9th. No one knows for sure what year but is said to be between 1525-30. Bruegel was born in Netherlands. He is the only member in his family that is artistic. Living in the Brueghel dynasty he dropped the “h” and signed his paintings with Brugel. Pieter worked in many places like France, Italy,and Antwerp. When in 1551 in Antwerp he was accepted as a master in the painters guild. Visiting many different cities he would draw many religious paintings and organic views on the different landscapes, while in his early years. Later Pieter Bruegel was Pieter Coecke van Aelst as his student. Where he studied under him and his other students in a studio learning more about small and full scale paintings. This studio was in Brussels in 1544. Bruegel married Coecke’s daughter, Maycen. Also had two children, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Jan Brueghel the Elder, which both became painters. Their father died when the oldest son brueghel the younger was just 5 years old. So they never got training from their father. After their mother Maycen died they lived with their grandmother, who was also a painter. His early paintings like combat of Carnival and Lent were influenced by Hieronymus Bosch. Bosch was a early flemish painter known for his realistic imagery and to illustrate moral and religious concepts. Many o... ... middle of paper ... ...ces, also different color schemes to make his paintings unlike any other artist. Without Pieter Bruegel the world could not look back to the 16th century and predict what life was like back then without his and other paintings that really showed life threw their perspective. Bruegel introduced the details of life as a peasant or children back then. He gave his opinion on life with the style and detail of the landscapes he painted, and at the time it was different no other artist was really drawing the outside world it was mostly selfies, of themselves or other people. Other Dutch and Flemish painters established new subjects such as landscape painting and genre painting, which Joachim Patinir developed landscape painting, inventing a type of the world landscape, which was perfected by Bruegel then,followed by Pieter Aertsen, also helped popularise genre painting.
Jan Vermeer’s career spread over a century of great change- in art, technology, and social customs. In art, subject matter ceased to be the most important component of great paintings. This allowed artists to discover how to appreciate and portray the sheer beauty of the world. One of the greatest of these masters was Jan Vermeer, born a generation after Rembrandt. Vermeer did not paint many pictures in his life, and few of them represent important scenes. Specializing in genre paintings (subjects of everyday life), he mainly painted ordinary figures engaged in ordinary tasks, such as a lady reading a letter or a young lady playing a lute. Yet what made these paintings such masterpieces was the way Vermeer achieved meticulous precision in the presentation of textures, light, and colors without the paintings ever looking unnatural or harsh.
Brunel was born on 9 April 1806 in Portsmouth. His father Mark was a French engineer who had fled France during the revolution. Brunel studied in Paris for three years and returned to England where he worked with his father.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German artist, a painter, and a print maker. Born in 1880, Kirchner was an expressionist artist. He would paint subjects from a sole perspective, often changing them drastically to bring across a viewpoint or message, which he wanted conveyed. He was a founding member of an artist’s group named 'Die Brücke' or 'The Bridge'. Originally based in Dresden, the group later moved to Berlin where they would have the ability to draw from the city's fast moving pace into their art. Nudes played a large part in their paintings. The group often engaged in casual sex, as well as walked around their studio naked. Spontaneity played a rather large part in paintings. Kirchner often painted subjects in fifteen-minute sessions in order to preserve the spontaneity of the moment. Shortly after the group moved to Berlin, some arguments broke out, which later lead to the dissolution of the group. The many diverse artistic viewpoints which were to be found in Berlin, led to rifts in the group.
Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish painter and diplomat counted as the leader of the Flemish Baroque School. During the last decades of the 16th century the Flemish School of Painting was just struggling along and hadn’t produced a master in the arts for a long time. It was then that Peter Paul Rubens got his artistic training at this school and acquired his belief in the humanistic values of classical antiquity. During his lifetime Rubens acquired a reputation in the art world that brought him commissions from England, Germany, France, the southern Netherlands, Spain and Italy. He was well-known for his unstoppable imagination, immense capacity for work and sheer productivity.
Watteau was born in 1684 in the town of Valenciennes, France. The city had belonged to the Spanish Netherlands in the decade leading up to the birth of Watteau. Because the city had been part of the Netherlands for so long, Watteau’s art had a great amount of Dutch influence, especially the famous Flemish painter Rubens. In addition to the Flemish influences, a lot of French as well as some Italian elements are seen in his work. His hybrid style which drew from many schools of art, including the Baroque, led to him being a pioneer in the new Rocco style of ...
He was born in Braunau on April 20,1889 and grew up in Leonding on the Danube, near Linz, Austria. At age eighteen he left home and moved to Vienna hoping to fulfill his dreams as an artist. He applied for entrance to the Academy of Fine Arts in the Summer of 1907, but his dream of becoming an artist disappeared when he failed the entrance examination. He tried one more time and again failed. Some say this is the start of his fire and rage.
Vincent van Gogh lived from 1853 to 1890 and is arguably the most famous painter of the post-impressionism era of art. His painting style was often
Hieronymus Bosch was born in Brabant, now known as the Netherlands, around 1450. He was a northern European painter of the late Middle Ages, and is considered to be mysterious and elusive in history. His inspiration to become an artist began because his father, brother and uncles were painters, and therefore it is believed he was trained, or mentored, by a relative growing up. He may have been influenced by his religious group, Brotherhood of Our Lady, for a period time, because a majority of his art had religious themes. “In 1488 he joined the highly respected Brotherhood of Our Lady, an arch-co...
Born on June 28, 1577, in the town of Siegen in Westphalia (now Germany), one of seven children of a prosperous lawyer and his cultured wife. Following his father's death in 1587, the family moved to Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium), where the young Rubens received an education and artistic training. He served as an apprentice to several established artists, and was admitted into Antwerp's professional guild for painters in 1598. Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most
Jean Francois Millet, who was a social realist painter who inspired Van Gogh, and he studied at the Barbizon School. He painted rural life to show the poverty stricken people, capturing the lives of peasants at work. Making a statement on what is taking place in the world. Communicating through art to expose the poor conditions and physical hardships that hard working people are enduring. It is an invitation, to look into the working class environment, which is gritty, real and true. This stirred up controversy, because of its honest approach.
Peter Paul Rubens, the epitome of influential educated artist of the 17th century, studied the “works of Veronese, Tintoretto, Titian and Caravaggio.” (Baroque Art n.d.) and even went through the hassle of reproducing one of Leonardo’s drawings to show that he had understood the composition and style of Italian Renaissance art. Having been raised in Belgium, Peter Paul Rubens was familiar with Flemish Traditional art which was primarily landscape and portraiture, consisted of vivid detail with reserved composition.
Although The Triumph of Death was painted late in Bruegel’s artistic career it’s documented that he was registered in 1551 as a master with the Guild of Saint Luke, a prominent art guild founded by Pieter Coecke van Aelst in Antwerp, who is also believed to have been the artist Bruegel apprenticed under (Emile & Charles, p. 62). The work itself depicts
Rembrandt van Rijn, a prolific painter and etcher, is noted as the greatest Dutch artist of the Golden Age. Pasadena’s Norton Simon museum is home to some of his achievements, including one of his many self portraits titled Self Portrait painted in 1636-1638. Throughout his lifetime, Rembrandt documented his life in paintings. This autobiography of self portraits was very uncommon for the seventeenth century and helped establish his reputation as an artist. These portraits created a timeline of Rembrandt’s life, as well as document the evolution of his artistic style and expression. He was an exceptional inspiration to the following generation of artists.
Jan Van Eyck was a Flemish painter who was born around 1390, in Maaseik and works in mostly Bruges and is generally considered one of the most important Northern European painters of the 15th century. “Van Eyck was not the inventor of oil-based paint, but he is recognized as being one of the first to perfect its use” (Kloss 95). Van Eyck is known as the pioneer of oil painting, he made major contribution to the improvement of oil painting. He applied new techniques by using oil-based paint to benefit from the longer drying time of oil-paint because it give him chance to blend wet-to-wet in order to increase three-dimension effect and to add more details. In addition these, using oil paint also allowed Van Eyck to differentiate surfaces and to emphasize different textures. It permitted to him “to capture rich jewel-like colors and subtle changes in textures and surfaces” (Stokstad 596).The brilliant colors also help to heighten the realism effect and to demonstrate the wealth and prosperity of Arnolfini.
Bruegel was born in the province of North Brabant circa 1525. He developed his career as a painter and engraver, launching his career with a series of large