Jozef Israels (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

J. Ernest Phythian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330743075 ISBN 13 : 9781330743072

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover how a 19th‑century Dutch painter turned everyday life into lasting art.

This engaging study traces Jozef Israels’s move from myth and history back to the world around him, and shows why his work matters today.

In this volume, you’ll follow Israels from his beginnings in Groningen to his leadership in reviving a home‑movingly Dutch art. The book places his life and his pictures in the context of Dutch painting’s long history, from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century, and explains why contemporary life became his principal subject.

With clear analysis and accessible language, the book looks at both his successes and his missteps. It also introduces the artists who stood beside him in the Dutch revival and discusses how his approach shaped later work in portraiture, genre scenes, and everyday life.

• Plainspoken portraits of ordinary people with a humane, empathetic view
• Judgments on his handling of drawing, color, and light in genre scenes
• Context about his role among other Dutch artists who shared the revival of home life as subject
• Guidance to key works and how they fit into the larger arc of Dutch painting

Ideal for readers of art history, museum goers, and fans of Dutch painting who want a grounded, accessible portrait of Israels and his era.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Jozef Israels

The painter whose work is discussed in the following pages had the distinction of being a leader in a movement that took the art of his country back to a vivid and inspiring interpretation of contemporary life, and of the natural world in which that life was lived, from which it had long departed to give instead pictures of mythological and historical subjects that were supposed to have both in their art and in their subjects an importance that records of immediate, ordinary happenings could not have. Dutch painting had been led to make this change by French influence at the close of the seventeenth century, after giving, during that century, the first example of the devotion of a national art to a record of contemporary life, and of the country in which the nation had its home.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330743075
• ISBN 13: 9781330743072
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 190
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