Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Camille Pissarro Paintings And Jan Van Eyck Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Compared to the paintings themselves, Camille Pissarro paintings regarded light and movement to be of equal importance. Camille and Cezanne worked closely together for more than 25 years. They sometimes painted side by side on the very same subject. This was in Louveciennes and around Pontoise where Camille spent much of his working life.

The accurate recording of the sensations one experiences from nature observation was the objective of emphatic Camille Pissarro paintings. The oil paintings of Camille recorded Sydenham and the Norwoods at the time they were just recently connected by railways, but prior to the suburban expansion.

Two oil paintings among the Camille Pissarro paintings done in London was bought by Paul Durand-Ruel, an art dealer who subsequently became the most important of them all as far as the new school of French Impressionism was concerned. In 1890, Camille painted some ten scenes of central London during a visit to England.

Is Jan Van Eyck the inventor of oil painting? His Jan Van Eyck paintings seem to reflect so. However true that Jan was an early master of the oil painting medium, it remains to be a fact that painting with oil dates back to the Indian and Chinese paintings of the 5th century.

An excellent example of Jan Van Eyck paintings can be found in the oil panel painting of the Arnolfini Marriage Portrait. The sitters for the painting are assumed to be Giovanni Arnolfini and his pregnant wife. The painting was a representation of a bethrothal in the bedroom of their home.

Jan Van Eyck paintings showed an adherence to realism and acute observation of the small details in the appearance of a sitter. A 1432 painting, Leal Souvenir, introduced motifs that were to become common in Jan's works, i.e., the stone parapet at the base of the canvas. It simulated marked or scarred stone, containing three separate layers of inscription. Each layer is rendered in an illusionistic manner, giving the impression they were chiselled onto the stone.




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