Saturday, June 7, 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 primary concern of radical Camille Pissarro paintings was accuracy in the recording of sensations felt while someone views nature all around him. One of the largest of oil paintings by Camille presented a view of St. Bartholomew's Church found at Lawrie Park Avenue.

There were 12 oil paintings among Camille Pissarro paintings dating from Camille's stay in Upper Norwood. Among these paintings are the Norwood Under the Snow, Lordship Lane Station, views of the Crystal Palace relocated from Hyde Park, Dulwich College, Sydenham Hill, All Saint's Church and a lost painting of St. Stephen's Church.

Jan Van Eyck paintings showed mastery in the technique of oil painting, so much so, that Jan Van Eyck was often mistaken to be the inventor of oil painting. Of course, this is farthest from the truth since painting with oil dates back as far as the Indian and Chinese painters 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.

The earliest surviving portrait among Jan Van Eyck paintings was the Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon. It presented many elements that were to become standards in Jan's portraiture style. These elements include the three-quarters view, dramatic directorial lighting and elaborate headdress. For single portraits, the framing of the figure within an undefined narrow space, set against a flat black background was the standard element.




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