ARTH 3312 Lecture 15: arth lecture 15
Document Summary
Genre and sentimentality: b. s. chardin and j. Chardin - moved to genre, slice of life paintings - figures. Owe a debt to 17th century dutch tradition. Direct, commonplace: woman drawing water from a cistern (la fontaine), 1733, stockholm, Figures in paintings are absorbed in their being. Different when figures are engaged with viewer: the laundress (washerwoman) 1733, stockholm, nationalmuseum. Antoine de la roque, owner of mercure de france - newspaper of the day. Praised for naturalism and truth in presentation and subject matter: return from market (the kitchen maid), 1739, paris, louvre. Mastery in technique as in his still lifes. Mundane subject - repetitive world of work: boy blowing bubbles (soap bubbles), ca. Boy blowing bubbles, new york, metropolitan museum of art cf. Boy blowing bubbles, los angeles, county museum of art. Vanitas - ephemerality, inevitable death: goltzius, quis evadet? (who can evade it?) Yet he showed middle class: the philosopher (the alchemist), 1734, paris, louvre.
