Landscape Scenes by Dutch Artists
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This paper will discuss landscape scenes painted by Dutch artists during the Baroque Era, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Special emphasis will be placed upon five painters of the seventeenth century, namely Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Lievens, Salomon van Ruysdael, Jan van Goyen, and Aert van der Neer. A number of landscape paintings by these artists will be analyzed in detail. Landscapes were a popular subject for painters during the Baroque period. This paper will show that although landscape paintings of the period share many motifs and characteristics in common, the field of landscape painting was broad enough to enable individual artists to express their own unique styles and ideas despite any similarities of subject matter. In fact, individual self-expression in painting was of particular importance to Dutch artists in the seventeenth century. For example, Raffaello Causa has noted that during this time in the Netherlands, "personal experimentation flourished, and the individual artists felt the obligation to achieve an independent manner within the well-defined sphere of a field of specialization" (Causa, 1966, p. 346). Although these artists typically followed a traditional plan in executing their works, they were nonetheless able to express their own identities through their paintings. Many factors influenced the development of the fine arts in the Netherlands during the period from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. The economic
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n the light and dark areas of the work which, although somewhat exaggerated, nonetheless "strengthened rather than diminished the sense of reality" (p. 68). These contrasts were made more striking because the artists used oil paints to render them. All of the works discussed here were painted in oils, either on canvas or panels. This gave the colors a rich intensity and a clarity which was ideally suited to the depiction of natural scenes. Another characteristic of Dutch landscape painting during the Baroque period was that although such works depicted realistic scenes, at the same time they attempted to capture "fleeting atmospheric effects" (Levey, 1992, p. 204). Thus, many of these paintings feature landscapes with changing weather phenomena, such as brilliant sunlight breaking through stormy clouds. This type of effect was intensified by the interactions of color, light and shadow typical of such works, and these elements thus served as a means of expressing the individual mood of the artist at the time of creating the painting.
All of the characteristics described here are present in Jacob van Ruisdael's Woody Landscape with a Pool and Figures. Here we see the intricate detail which was common in landscapes of the ti
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