Golden age dutch still life. They painted still lifes that. The paintings on this board were produced in the northern european low countries between roughly 1600 and 1750. A special genre of still life was the so called pronkstilleven dutch for ostentatious still life.
This style of ornate still life painting was developed in the 1640s in antwerp by flemish artists such as frans snyders osias beert adriaen van utrecht and a whole generation of dutch golden age painters. The emergence of the dutch school of painting in the early seventeenth century is one of the most extraordinary phenomena in the history of the visual arts. Historical painting landscapes and cityscapes genre painting portraiture maritime painting and still.
On one side the generally somber scenes are read symbolically through the lens of. Still life as a particular genre began with netherlandish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries and the english term still life derives from the dutch word stilleven. New zealand was named in 1645 after the dutch province of zeeland.
Building the golden age in amsterdam. Obviously photographic still life falls outside the scope of this board. The dutch golden age led to a tremendous outpouring of still life paintings in the 17th century.
The netherlands had only recently become a political entity and was still suffering from the effects of a long and arduous war against spain. The new dutch republic was the most prosperous nation in europe and led european trade science and art. The art of the dutch golden age was very diverse and can be divided into six categories.
Kevin takes us back to that golden era he has amassed an. For an artist reinterpreting the still life paintings of the dutch golden age in a new medium kevin best could not have been born in a more appropriately named country. Dutch golden age painting is the painting of the dutch golden age a period in dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century during and after the later part of the eighty years war 15681648 for dutch independence.
May 9 2018 almost certainly what first comes to most peoples minds when they think of still life the paintings from the dutch golden age represent one of the definite peaks of the genre. Willem kalf 1619 31 july 1693 was a dutch golden age painter who specialized in still lifeslater in his life kalf became an art dealer and appraiser.