Dirk’s Comments (group member since Feb 11, 2021)

Dirk’s comments from the Art Lovers..Part 2 group.

Agostino Brunias
(1730- 1796)

Agostino Brunia was an Italian painter who was primarily active in the West Indies. Born in Rome around 1730, Brunias spent his early career as a painter after graduating from the Accademia di San Luca. After he befriended prominent Scottish architect Robert Adam and accompanied him back to Britain, Brunias left for the British West Indies to continue his career in painting under the tutelage of Sir William Young. Although he was primarily commissioned to paint the various planter families and their plantations in the West Indies, he also painted several scenes featuring free people of colour and cultural life in the West Indies. Brunias spent most of his West Indian career on the island of Dominica, where he would die in 1796. Historians have made disparate assessments of Brunias's works; some praised his subversive depiction of West Indian culture, while others claimed it romanticised the harshness of plantation life. Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture was a prominent admirer of his work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostin...


Kingston Harbor, Linen Market, St. Vincent
1780
Oil on canvas
55 x 76.2 cm
Yale Center for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.e...

Utagawa Hiroshige
(1797 - 1858)

Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject, though Hiroshige's approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai's bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige's prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige


Market at Asakusa in Edo
1853
polychrome woodblock print
36 x 24 cm
Private collection and several museums

J. M. W. Turner
(1775 - 1851)

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. His artistic style developed over his lifetime, moving away from Romanticism—bypassing the following rising style of Realism—and, instead, with his later works being a significant precursor of and presaging the later Impressionist and Abstract Art movements that arose in the decades after his death. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W...


The Fish Market at Hastings Beach
1810
Oil on canvas
90.8 x 120.6  cm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects...

Edward Bawden
(1903 - 1989)

Edward Bawden, CBE RA was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had been a student, worked as a commercial artist and served as a war artist in World War II. He was a fine watercolour painter but worked in many different media. He illustrated several books and painted murals in both the 1930s and 1960s. He was admired by Edward Gorey, David Gentleman and other graphic artists, and his work and career is often associated with that of his contemporary Eric Ravilious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...


Covent Garden Flower Market
1967
Lithograph on paper
46 x 161 cm
Tate Gallery, London, UK
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/...

Oswald Achenbach
(1827–1905 )

Oswald Achenbach was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. The two brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_...


Market square of Amalfi
1876
Oil on canvas
128 x 111 cm
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/9...

Jerome Myers
(1867–1940)

Jerome Myers was an American artist and writer associated with the Ashcan School, particularly known for his sympathetic depictions of the urban landscape and its people.He was one of the main organizers of the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced European modernism to America.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_...


Market in Paris,
1920
Oil on canvas
76.5 x 25 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
https://www.phillipscollection.org/co...

Léon Lhermitte
(1844–1925)

Léon Augustin Lhermitte was a French naturalist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was rural scenes depicting peasants at work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Lh...


Apple Market, Landerneau
(c. 1878)
oil on canvas
85 x 120 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
https://philamuseum.org/collection/ob...
Landerneau is a market town in Brittany, France.


Apple Market, Landerneau,
1878
drawing
pen and brown ink over tracing in red chalk
26.6 x 38 cm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland USA
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008...

No food in the next artwork, sometimes markets were used for other occasions…

Thomas Rowlandson
(1757 - 1827)

Thomas Rowlandson was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social and political satires, as well as a large number of illustrations for novels, humorous books, and topographical works. Like other caricaturists of his age such as James Gillray, his caricatures are often robust or bawdy. Rowlandson also produced highly explicit erotica for a private clientele; this was never published publicly at the time and is now only found in a small number of collections. His caricatures included those of people in power such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...


Covent Garden Market
1808
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Plate 23 × 24.3 cm,
The MET (among others)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...

This print records temporary wooden stands erected outside St.Paul's Church in Covent Garden Market to allow politicians running for Parliament in the Westminster election to address voters. On this occasion a large crowd has gathered, carrying banners and spilling out into the square, with some figures perched on a roof at right to listen to a speaker.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
(1699–1779)

Jean Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Si...


The Return from the Market (a.k.a. The Provider),
1738
oil on canvas
46.7 × 37.5 cm
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
https://www.gallery.ca/collection/art...

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
(1617–1682)

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively realistic portraits of flower girls, street urchins, and beggars constitute an extensive record of the everyday life of his times. He also painted two self-portraits, one in the Frick Collection portraying him in his 30s, and one in London's National Gallery portraying him about 20 years later. In 2017–18, the two museums held an exhibition of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolo...


The Little Fruit Seller
c. 1670–75
oil on canvas
144 × 107.6 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich WGA
https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de...

Adriaen van Ostade
(1610– 1685)

Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women.

Ostade was the contemporary of the Flemish painters David Teniers the Younger and Adriaen Brouwer. Like them, he spent his life in delineation of ordinary life, depicting tavern scenes, village fairs and country quarters. Between Teniers and Ostade the contrast lies in the different condition of the agricultural classes of Brabant and Holland and in the atmosphere and dwellings peculiar to each region. Brabant has more sun and more comfort; Teniers, in consequence, is silvery and sparkling, and the people he paints are fair specimens of their culture. Holland, in the vicinity of Haarlem, seems to have suffered much from war; the air is moist and hazy, and the people depicted by Ostade are short and ill-favoured, marked with adversity's stamp in feature and dress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen...


The Fish Market
1659
Oil on canvas
41.5 × 36.5 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53...

Frans Snyders
(1579 - 1657)

Frans Snyders or Frans Snijders was a Flemish painter of animals, hunting scenes, market scenes, and still lifes. A versatile artist, his works depict all sorts of foods, utensils, and tableware and wide assortment of animals. He was one of the earliest specialist animaliers and he is credited with initiating a wide variety of new still-life and animal subjects in Antwerp. His hunting scenes and still lifes engage the viewer with their dramatic and dynamic effects. He was a regular collaborator with leading Antwerp painters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, and Abraham Janssens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_S...


The Fish market
1618
Oil on canvas
225 x 365 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien, Gemäldegalerie
https://www.khm.at/en/artworks/fish-m...

Louise Moillon
(1610 - 1696)

Louise Moillon was a French still life painter in the Baroque era. It is recorded that she became known as one of the best still life painters of her time, as her work was purchased by King Charles I of England, as well as French nobility. Moillon's works show the influence of Flemish painting in their trompe l'oeil effects but are characteristically French in their elegance. Moillon created about 40 paintings during her lifetime which are held in museums and private collections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_...


The Fruit and Vegetable Seller
1631
Oil on canvas
48 cm (18.8 in); width: 65 cm (25.5 in)
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:...

Joachim Beuckelaer
(1535 - 1575)
Joachim Beuckelaer was a Flemish painter specialising in market and kitchen scenes with elaborate displays of food and household equipment. His development of the genre of market and kitchen scenes was influential on the development of still life art in Northern Europe as well as Italy and Spain.He also painted still lifes with no figures in the central scene. He further added the staffage (i.e. the figures) or the garments in works of other local painters, such as Anthonis Mor.
Beuckelaer's market scenes, like those of Aertsen, often incorporate biblical episodes in the background.[7] His Four Elements series National Gallery, London are a good example. The painting depicting the element Water, for example, shows a fish market selling 12 kinds of fish, representing the twelve disciples of Jesus. Through an archway in the background the miraculous draught of fishes is depicted, with Christ appearing to his apostles and telling them to cast their nets on the other side of the boat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim...



The Four Elements: Air
1570
Oil on canvas
158 × 216 cm
The National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/pa...

At first sight this looks like a busy sixteenth-century street scene. A man sells poultry and other produce, piled up in baskets and barrels, in the corner of a market square. He lifts up two hens by their legs, feathers from their flapping wings drifting down and settling on the coop below. On the left, a smartly dressed young woman with a basket on her arm grasps a handsome cockerel by its feet. She turns and looks confidently out at us, as if we are standing next to her at this stall.
There’s more going on here than the daily shop. This is one of four large paintings in which the four elements – earth, air, fire and water – are represented by food, with biblical scenes in the background. In another corner of the market we can see the prodigal son, in red trousers – he is wasting ‘his substance with riotous living’ (Luke 15: 13).

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/pa...

Pieter Aertsen
(1508 - 1575)

Pieter Aertsen called Lange Piet ("Tall Pete") because of his height, was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism. He is credited with the invention of the monumental genre scene, which combines still life and genre painting and often also includes a biblical scene in the background. He was active in his native city Amsterdam but also worked for a long period in Antwerp, then the centre of artistic life in the Netherlands.
His genre scenes were influential on later Flemish Baroque painting, Dutch still life painting and also in Italy. His peasant scenes preceded by a few years the much better-known paintings produced in Antwerp by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_...


The Vegetable Seller
1567
Oil on oak panel
111.2 x 111.6 cm
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/8...

Every month I choose a theme and try to post as many different artists as there are days.
I won’t reveal the theme right away—so for the first few days, you’re invited to play along and try to guess it. I think this one won’t be too hard to figure out.
You’re welcome to comment on the pictures, respond to other people’s comments, or say whatever you like (as long as it follows the group rules, of course).
There’s just one rule for this thread: only the person running it can post pictures.
So please don’t post a picture here. That’s all!
Enjoy!

Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)

In 1893 Monet bought a plot of land next to his house in Giverny. He had already planted a colourful flower garden, but now he wanted to create a water garden ‘both for the pleasure of the eye and for the purpose of having subjects to paint'. He enlarged the existing pond, filling it with exotic new hybrid water lilies, and built a humpback bridge at one end, inspired by examples seen in Japanese prints. The water garden became the main obsession of Monet’s later career, and the subject of some 250 paintings.
Here, the bridge spans the width of the canvas but is cut off at the edges so that it seems to float unanchored above the water, its shape reflected in a dark arc at the bottom of the picture. The perspective seems to shift; it is as though we are looking up at the bridge but down on the water lilies which float towards the distance. The vertical reflections of the trees provide a counterpoint to the horizontal clumps of the lily pads.

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/pa...



The_Water-Lily_Pond
1899
Oil on canvas
88.3 x 93.1 cm
The National gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/pa...

The bridge and he pond are still there in Giverny and you can visit them, but just as with the Mona Lisa, you won’t be alone:



For a list of these 250 paintings you can visit Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_L...

For all the other paintings by Monet and Manet you can visit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

In 2019 I posted a small selection of Monet’s work here in the group, some you have seen this summer but some not:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Édouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (French: Un bar aux Folies Bergère) is a painting by Édouard Manet, considered to be his last major work. It was painted in 1882 and exhibited at the Paris Salon of that year. It depicts a scene in the Folies Bergère nightclub in Paris. The painting originally belonged to the composer Emmanuel Chabrier, a close friend of Manet, and hung over his piano. It is now in the Courtauld Gallery in London.

The painting exemplifies Manet's commitment to realism in its detailed representation of a contemporary scene. Many features have puzzled critics but almost all of them have been shown to have a rationale, and the painting has been the subject of numerous popular and scholarly articles.
The central figure stands before a mirror, although critics—accusing Manet of ignorance of perspective and alleging various impossibilities in the painting—have debated this point since the earliest reviews were published. In 2000, however, a photograph taken from a suitable point of view of a staged reconstruction was shown to reproduce the scene as painted by Manet. According to this reconstruction, "the conversation that many have assumed was transpiring between the barmaid and gentleman is revealed to be an optical trick—the man stands outside the painter's field of vision, to the left, and looks away from the barmaid, rather than standing right in front of her." As it appears, the observer should be standing to the right and closer to the bar than the man whose reflection appears at the right edge of the picture. This is an unusual departure from the central point of view usually assumed when viewing pictures drawn according to perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bar_a...


Un_Bar_aux_Folies-Bergère
1882
Oil on canvas
96 x 130 cm
Courtauld Gallery, London
https://courtauld.ac.uk/highlights/a-...

https://youtu.be/OzBsRjJwbiQ?si=5K-yF...

Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)

Monet, who had already visited London in 1870-1871, made a first six-week stay in London in September 1899, accompanied by Alice and Germaine Hoschedé, with the aim of both painting and visiting his son Michel, had been living there since the spring. They stayed in a suite on the 6th floor of the prestigious Savoy Hotel, which offered spectacular views of the Thames and south London. Monet was invigorated by this visit, commenting, “I so love London! But I love it only in winter, for without the fog London wouldn’t be a beautiful city. It’s the fog that gives it its magnificent breadth.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_...


Charing Cross Bridge, The Thames
1901
Oil on canvas
73,4 x 100.3 cm
Musée des Beaux Arts, Lyon, France
https://www.mba-lyon.fr/en/fiche-oeuv...

Charing Cross Bridge (Monet series)

Charing Cross Bridge is a series of oil paintings by French artist Claude Monet. The paintings depict a misty, impressionist Charing Cross Bridge in London, England. Monet worked on the series from 1899 to 1905, creating a total of 37 paintings depicting the bridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing...

Édouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)

Self-Portrait with Palette (French: Autoportrait à la palette) is an 1878–79 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Édouard Manet. This late impressionistic work is one of his two self-portraits. Velasquez's self-portrait in Las Meninas was a particular inspiration for Manet's painting which despite its allusion to the previous artist's work is very modern in its focus upon the personality of the artist and loose paint handling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Po...


Selfportrait 1879
1879
Oil on canvas
83 x 67 cm
Private collection (Sold at Sotheby’s on 22 June 2010)