Dutch painter of still life’s notably fruit. Steenwyck was born in delft in the year 1609 (unknown but worked out as an approximation from the time of his works), he died in 1656.
He worked in Lieden between 1628 and 1633 and then in Delft from 1633 to 1656.
He is best known for his painting “An allegory of the Vanities of Human Life” which is displayed at the national gallery, London.
He was considered as Dutch “Vanitas” painter.
Vanitas paintings gave the message that you should not be concerned with the possessions you own in this life, as you cannot take them with you when you die. I would imagine this is symbolised in the paintings by the skull in each of his paintings. “vanities of Human life” has a skull as almost a centre piece in the picture. A skull being a symbol of death, someone has died for it to be there.
(Being a large object a skull could be made using polystyrene, following the same procedures as we did when making the bread. However it would be difficult to make the details of the skull such as the teeth and the eye sockets as polystyrene tends to flake. The other option is to make it using a cast resin. This is a procedure I’m not familiar with and I’ll need to look into this.)
Pieter De Hooch
Shared themes and style with Johannes Vermeer.
De Hooch was a genre painter during “the Dutch golden age”
De Hooch was born in Rotterdam and painted a total of 84 paintings.
One of his famous paintings is “The courtyard of a house in Delft”. Props in this image include an old fashion broom and a bucket that are sitting in the foreground of the picture
“Genre Painter” genre works are representations of scenes and events from everyday life, such as street scenes and domestic scenes. Vermeer’s painting “Young woman with a Water Pitcher”, which features in the film “ The girl with a pearl earring”.
The Dutch Golden Age was a period of time spanning the 17th century, during which Dutch trade, science and art were considered most acclaimed in the world.
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