Dutch Baroque The Dutch School Dutch Baroque 1610

Dutch Baroque The Dutch School

Dutch Baroque 1610 -1670 • Dutch Reform churches didn’t need art • The usual patrons of the art – nobles and the Church were absent • ** This led to a “democratization” of art in subject matter and ownership • Still life • Landscape • Portraits • Family Scenes

Characteristics Early • Used dramatic light/dark contrasts • Design seemed to burst the frame • Groups of figures • Based on physical action • Vigorous, melodramatic tone • Highly finished, detailed technique Late • Used golden-brown tones, subtle shading • Static, brooding atmosphere • Scenes simplified with a single subject • Implied psychological reaction • Quiet, solemn mood • Painted with broad, thick strokes

Baroque Art • • Religious – In Catholic countries Dramatic Emphasis on light and shadow Monumental – the aristocracy, battle scenes

Rembrandt “The Night Watch, 1642

Rembrandt – “The Syndics of the Drapers Guild” - 1662

Ruisdael, “Windmill at Wijk-bij-Duurst-ede 1665

Vermeer – The Girl with the Pearl Earing

Vermeer – The Geographer, 1668

Caravaggio, The Conversion of St. Paul, c. 1601 (Italian)

Bernini, “The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, ” 1645 -52

Velazquez “Las Meninas, ” 1656

William Hogarth “The Breakfast Scene” (English) 1745

French Rococo • Reflected the “frivolous” existence of the aristocracy(nobility) • Playful, superficial, energetic, light, graceful, delicate • White, silver, gold, light pinks, blues and greens • Gilded woodwork, painted panels • Enormous wall mirrors

Jean-Honoré Fragonard “The Swing”

Francois Boucher “Allegory of Painting”

Antoine Watteau The Song of Love