ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE

 

ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE

SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah 

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ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE (1587-1630) was a Dutch naturalistic landscape painter. He was also a prolific etcher, engraver and draughtsman. His earliest works are in the Mannerist tradition, in which, the landscapes were constructed in a fantastic and unrealistic manner, showing turbulent and hilly scenes from a low point of view so that the sky or the horizon almost disappeared.

By 1615s, he moved away from the panoramic effect, high viewpoints to adopt simple triangular compositions, often with a strong diagonal, tighter conception of the individual forms, clear outlines, and the use of chiaroscuro (the treatment of light and shades). The colouration was now local, tonal, uniform and undramatic. He reduced the number of figures that were typical in traditional in 16^th C northern landscape painting.

He created 180 pictures, 117 of which are landscapes. Graphic works number 200 and engravings and etchings are of 120 prints. He signed his paintings in two different ways: In the early period (1614–16) as ‘E Van Den Velde’ and in the later periods as ‘E. V. Velde’.

In addition to pure landscapes, Esaias painted various figures in landscape settings. He also collaborated with architectural painter Bartholomeus van Bassen (1590-1652), to draw figures and also the representations of ‘pictures within the picture’.

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JACOBUS VREL

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Sunday Feature on ART of Architecture by Gautam Shah 

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Jacobus Vrel (1654-1670) was Dutch, Flemish, (or Westphalian =NW Germany), painter of interiors and town street scenes. He worked through the Dutch Golden period (1588–1672).

In terms of pictorial ideas, Vrel was a forerunner of Vermeer, rather than a follower. He has in common with Vermeer, the simplicity of composition, lesser attention to details. Vrel painted without glazes. He painted intimate atmospheric scenes of everyday life of the Dutch middle class. But he never painted any historical or important events. Due to little historical evidence, he has been called, ‘the most elusive painter of 17^th C. Holland’. It is believed that he lived in a provincial town, rather than a major art centre. The places in his scenes are possibly imaginary. 

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