Silly Facts About Dutch Painters
Rembrandt van Rijn
Lived
1606 - 1669
Known for
Use of light and shadow, portraits
De Nachtwacht - The Night Watch
This painting used to be much bigger.
Rembrandt was inspired by Italian painters.
Vincent van Gogh
Lived
1853 - 1890
Known for
Strong, colourful strokes
De sterrennacht
The Starry Night
There's a song about this painter and painting
Vincent lived in different countries
Piet Mondriaan
Lived
1872 - 1944
Known for
Abstract painting in
primary colours
Victory Boogie Woogie
Changed his name to Mondrian when he moved to Paris
Lived in the most expensive street of Monopoly
Mondriaan danced to Boogie Woogie at age 70, but as soon as he heard a melody he would say ‘let’s sit down’...
M.C. Escher
Lived
1878 - 1972
Known for
Impossible realities, mathematical patterns
Sky and Water I
Travel to Italy and Spain inspired him
Did not know much about maths
Corneille
Lived
1922 - 2010
Known for
Spontaneous art
Orchestre Be-Bop,
Hommage à Charlie Parker
Named after a bird - member of a movement with a snake name
Inspired by travels around the world
Died in the same French village as Van Gogh
These Dutch painters had one thing in common with you: they lived beyond the
(cultural) borders of their countries.
Celebrate each other's cultures.
They will carry you to a bright future
Both paintings are
AI-generated, based on this photo, via Night Café Studio
Credits
Portrait Rembrandt by Rembrandt - Royal Collection, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=92132921
Portrait Van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh - The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=151948
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh - Transferred from the English Wikipedia, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4603625
Victory Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian - Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37614350
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Credits
Photo La Mezquita by Nicolas Vollmer from Munich [Allemagne] - Colonnes de la Mezquita, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33238939
Sky and water by Official M.C. Escher website., Fair use,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11458408
Fragment of Le poisson et l’oiseau by Corneille, fair use, private collection
Orchestre Be-Bop, Hommage à Charlie Parker by Guillaume Corneille — archives officielles Guillaume Corneille, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=129341727
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Images on Slide 1 and 6 generated with AI text-to-image model SDXL Beta on Night Café Studio
Silly Facts About Dutch Painters
By arjantupan
Silly Facts About Dutch Painters
A short presentation about The Netherlands for International Week 2023 at MIS
