Masters

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• Masters
• of the Painting
• I
• The Masterpieces

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• A Winter Scene
• with Skaters
• near a Castle

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• Venus
• and Mars

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• The Adoration
• of the Kings

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• The Concert

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• The House
• of Cards

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• The Hay Wain

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• Miss La La
• at the Cirque Fernando

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• The Arnolfini Marriage

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• The Sunflowers

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• The Ambassadors

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• Masters
• of the Painting
• I
• about
• The Artists

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• Hendrick Avercamp
• painted
• A Winter Scene
• with Skaters
• near a Castle
• between 1608-1609

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• Profoundly deaf, and unable to speak, Avercamp
  was know as the mute Kampen.
• He specialized in finely details winter scenes,
  filled with movement and dotted with lots of tiny
  figures.
• Although he painted old cold, snowy scenes, he
  usually used a palette of warm colors, such pink
  and brown in his pictures.

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• Sandro Botticelli
• painted
• Venus and Mars
• in 1485

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• Botticelli worked many in Florence, painting
  religious pictures for his patrons, the powerful
  Medici family.
• He decorated the walls of the Sistine Chapel in
  the Vatican in Rome (The fanous ceiling of wich
  was painting twenty years later by Michelangelo.

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• Jan Brueghel
• painted
• The Adoration of the Kings
• in 1698

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• Jan Brueghel was the youngest son in a family of
  famous painters, led by his father Pieter
  Brueghel.
• Jan Brueghel usually painted flower pictures,
  landscapes and small, finely details painting of
  people.
• He gave the pictures such a polished finish that
  he earned the nickname of velvet Brueghel

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• Hendrick Ter Brugghen
• painted
• The Concert
• in 1626

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• Ter Brugghen lived in Italy for ten years and
  became an admirer of the work of the master
  painter, Caravaggio.
• He liked the way in which Caravaggio used dark
  shadows and bright highlights to create mood in
  his paintings.
• Ter Brugghen barrowed this technique for his
  gentle, atmospheric pictures.

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• Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin
• painted
• The House of Cards
• in 1735

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• Like the Dutch painter de Hooch, Chardin liked to
  capture the lives ordinary people in his
  paintings.
• His pictures were bought by royalty and members
  of the upper classes who enjoyed them for their
  simplicity and calmness

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• John Constable
• painted
• The Hay Wain
• in 1821

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• The son of a mill-owner, Constable grew up in
  Soffolk.
• As an adult he lived in London, but frequently
  returned to his home country to paint the
  countryside he had known as a child.

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• Edgar Degas
• painted
• Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando
• in 1879

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• Degas was born in Paris, the son of a rich
  banker.
• Although he is known as an Impressionist, Degass
  work was in very ways diferente from the rest of
  the group.
• Degas particularly loved theatrical and sporting
  subjects, specially scenes of ballet dancers and
  racehorses.

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• Jan Van Eyck
• painted
• The Arnolfini Marriage
• in 1434

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• Van Eyck was admired in his time for his
  delicate oil painting technique and his amazing
  realistic scenes.
• In 1422 he was made court painter to Count John
  of Holland and went on to finish the great
  altarpiece at the Ghent Cathedral, Belgium, which
  had been started by his brother Hubert

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• Vincent Van Gogh
• painted
• The Sunflowers
• in 1888

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• Van Gogh is now considered to be one of the
  worlds best painters, despite having very little
  training as an artist and only selling one
  picture during his lifetime.
• He suffered several periods of madness and
  famously, cut off part of his ear during one of
  them.
• He went on develop his own very individual style
  known as Post-Impressionist.
• Van Gogh worked energetically, using paint
  straight form the tube and laying it on thick
  brushstrokes.
• He painted a number of similar paintings to
  decorate a room in his house which was often used
  by Paul Gauguin

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• Hans Holbein
• painted
• The Ambassadors
• in 1533

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• During the 16th century, Europe became bitterly
  divided by a religious revolution know as the
  Reformation.
• Like many artist, Holbein was unable to make a
  living in Germany and so moved to London.
• A few years later he became court artist to King
  Henry VIII

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• Masters
• of the Painting
• I
• about
• The Paintings

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• The buildings in A Winter Scene with Skaters near
  a Castle are painted from the imagination but the
  skaters and toboganners are based on watercolor
  drawings made form life.
• Returning to his studio, Avercamp would use his
  sketches to create his carefully composed
  painting, grouping the figures, holding hands and
  dancing, to make patterns within the picture.

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• In Venus and Mars , Venus, the goddess of love,
  sits watching her sleeping lover, Mars. The god
  or war.
• Even the sound of trumpet in his ear will not
  wake him and the satyrs are able to playfully
  steal his lance.
• This beautifully detailed picture was probably
  used as a bedroom decoration, either for the wall
  or as part of a piece of furniture.

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• The Adoration of the Kings shows the three kings
  bringing gifts to the baby Jesus,
• To the right stands King Balthazar carrying a
  golden ship.
• Brueghel chose to set the painting in his own
  time and places the rickety old stable in a busy
  town, surrounded by people and animals going
  their daily business.

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• The mood of The Concert is a one of warmth,
  closeness and just a little mystery.
• Three musicians face each other in a ring, lit by
  a low candle. This gives the faces a golden glow
  but at the same time cast strange, dancing
  shadows in the wall behind.
• The young boy focuses on his book, beating out
  the rhythm of the music with his hands, lost in
  his own world, The other two musician seem to be
  aware of us looking at them.
• The candlelight catches their eyes as they glance
  out toward us but they keep their back turned,
  shutting us out of the circle.

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• The House of Cards is a natural scene, in which
  the boy seems unaware of the painters presence
  and gives his full concentration to the game.
• In this painting Chardin used think brushstrokes
  in Layers. Up close, these seem blurred and
  careless. From a distance, however, they take
  shape and give the picture a warm, still quality.

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• Constables landscapes often take the harmony
  between humans and nature as their subjects.
• The Haywain is a peaceful scene, which shows an
  empty hay wagon (haywain) in the River Stour,
  next to the house known as Willy Lotts Cottage.
• Constables great skill lies in the way he
  captures the tiny movements of nature- the tops
  of the trees shimmering in the breeze and the
  shadows of the clouds dancing across the meadow.

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• Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando captures the
  famous Parisian acrobat as she dangles by a rope
  clenched between her teeth. Degas catches this
  breathtaking moment by painting it form the pint
  of view of a member of the audience.
• The strange diagonals of the arms, legs and
  rafters, and the strong, yellow lighting all add
  to the drama and suspense of the scene.

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• The Arnolfini Marriage is a full-length portrait,
  showing a rich Italian merchant and his wife.
• Although she looks as if she is pregnant, in fact
  she is wearing a very long dress-in fashion at
  the time- and is holding it up in front of her.
• The beads on the wall and the fur on Mr
  Arnolfinis coat show that van Eyck was
  particularly interested in capturing all the
  textures and details of a scene.
• A close look at the concave mirror reveals two
  other people in the room, One of them is probably
  the painter himself, and this ties in with his
  signature on the back wall which, when
  translated, reads, Jan van Eyck was here 1434

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• In Sunflowers van Gogh used the technique of
  paint straight from the tube to gives texture to
  the seed-heads and to make the petals radiant a
  vibrant warmth.
• Van Gogh loved sunflowers for the simple shape
  and brilliant colors.

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• The Ambassadors is a portrait of two French
  diplomats who visit Henry VIIIs court in
  1533.The clothes and the surrounding objects show
  that these man are highly educated, powerful and
  very wealthy.
• Each object has been selected to give the
  painting meaning, The instruments on the upper
  shelf are for examination of stars and measuring
  dates and time. They contrast with the objects on
  the lower shelf which relate to human life on
  earth.
• Looking closely at the floor we will see a
  strange object, it is a skull that has been
  stretched. This technique is call anamorphosis.