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| What is a Vanitas Painting? |
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Satires the value of material wealth/pleasure.
Dutch peope embraces the idea of material existence and the Dutch artist often depicted material existence as superficial, shallow, and fleeting. |
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| What does memento mori mean? |
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Remember death.
Dutch put this in their paintings.
Type of Vanitas Painting. |
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| The Still Life refers to what? |
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Definition
| The type Decorate Art - paints mostly household items such as flowers or fruit. |
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| What did Johannes Goedaert? |
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Definition
Flowers in a Wan-li Vase with Blue Tint
Vanitas symbolism. |
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| What kind of Landscape Paintings did the Dutch make? |
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Definition
They reflected the major accomplisment of the Dutch people.
Example: transforming bog into farm land; an accomplishment they believe to be similar to God creating the world after the biblical flood.
Two thirds of the landscape is Sky. |
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| What did Jacob van Ruisdael paint? |
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Definition
View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overeen
2/3 sky, rural farmlands. |
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| Painings that depict scenes from everyday life. |
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| Jan Steen painted what? What did it show? |
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Definition
The Dancing Couple.
People dancing, happy.
Vanitas tones. |
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| What did Judith Lester paint? What did it show? |
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Definition
The Proposition.
Drama of everyday life.
Contrasting sexuality with morality with respect to gender roles.
Man asking a woman how much for sex. |
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| Who was Jan Vermeer? What type of paintings did he make? Name two. |
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Definition
Specialized in domestic genre scenes.
Recognized as one of the Great Dutch Baroque Painters.
The Geographer
The Music Lesson |
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| Who is Remembrandt van Rijn? What was he known for? Name three Paintings. |
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Definition
Dutch Master Painter.
Used Tenebrism. Produced over 60 self-portraits.
Slaughtered Ox
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
The Summer at Emmaus |
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| The use of contrasting lights and darks in paintings. |
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| What does Slaughtered Ox represent? |
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| The psychological mental state of Remembrandt van Rijn. The Ox was him in his old age, stripped. |
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