ARTHI 6B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Jusepe De Ribera, Spinning Wheel, Surface Tension
1. Jusepe Ribera, Clubfooted Boy, 1642
not idealized figure - carrying crutch, deformed foot
Jesus carrying the cross, something Christ-like in his suffering
sign: a beggar, collecting alms
2. Francisco Zurbaran, St. Serapion, 1628
white fabric, meditation of stainlessness of character, purity
exhausted face
3. Diego Velazquez, Worship of Bacchus (Los Borrachos) 1628
surrounded by spanish peasants, siesta
enjoying wine, bacchus with wreath; crowning peasant with wreath
guy looking at us, surface tension of wine keeps it in the cup, bending forward (involves us)
field hands usually do not get in paintings, sympathetic, every-day life
4. Diego Velazquez, The Spinners (Las Hilanderas), 1657
women in foreground using spinning wheels
sympathetic work of working class women
background: confrontation of woman with woman in armour (with spear)
Minerva and woman (Arachne) who challenges her to spinning wheel
Arachne turned into spider, continues weaving
heroic artist challenging god, pushing human limits
earthly art in struggle with nature and gods
mortals lose to gods
celebrating ordinary spanish women, the every-day and mythical past
poetic appreciation for humble craftsman (simple handicraft)
5. Diego Velazquez, Portrait of Juan de Pareja, 1650
prove his skill
paint his serving man
not high status, but same directness and honesty
6. Diego Velazquez, Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1650
highlights of silk captured
crimson red against white
looking at something in our space
7. Diego Velazquez, Ladies-in-Waiting (Las Meninas), 1656
him going to do portrait of king and queen
king and queen in mirror, posing
princess comes to watch
representation of every day scene at court (servants intermingingling)
representation of authority
document hierarchy - support monarchy, create society
harmoniously arrange figures in hierarchy
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