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HOW TO

APPRECIATE
PAINTING
MODULE #7
MOST PAINTINGS ARE
REPRESENTATIONAL OR OBJECTIVE AND
THE BASIC POINTS TO BEAR IN MIND
ARE:
 THROUGH-THE-WINDOW REALISM
 SELECTIVE REALISM
 LIGHT-AND-SHADOW REALISM
 FRINGE REALISM
 FOCUS-AND-FRINGE REALISM
 DYNAMIC REALISM
 DREAM-WORLD REALISM
THROUGH-THE-WINDOW
REALISM
Eyck, Jan van (b. before 1395,
Maaseik, Bishopric of Liège, Holy
Roman Empire [now in Belgium]--d.
before July 9, 1441, Bruges), Flemish
painter who perfected the newly
developed technique of oil painting.
His naturalistic panel paintings,
mostly portraits and religious
subjects, made extensive use of
disguised religious symbols. His
masterpiece is the altarpiece in the
cathedral at Ghent, the Adoration of
SELECTIVE REALISM
 Functions on the principle that
nobody can see every object in front
of him but sees only what he is
interested in. Here, the painter
paints only what comes into visual
attention and leaves out all the rest.
He is thus not burdened by
organizational problems and can
present his subject in unbalanced
composition, achieving a freshness
LIGHT-AND-SHADOW
REALISM
 Jan or Johannes Vermeer van Delft, b.
October 1632, d. December 1675, a Dutch
genre painter who lived and worked in
Delft, created some of the most exquisite
paintings in Western art.
 His works are rare. Of the 35 or 36
paintings generally attributed to him, most
portray figures in interiors. All his works
are admired for the sensitivity with which
he rendered effects of light and color and
for the poetic quality of his images.
FRINGE REALISM
What is known as Impressionism is a
painting of the fringe without focus.
The painter paints only what
stimulates the eye. As far as
possible, all influences of the mind
should be kept out. The
Impressionists—Renoir, Monet,
Seurat etc., made a careful study of
light, not color. They painted in small
brushstrokes of different colors.
FOCUS-AND-FRINGE
REALISM
Velázquez (or Velásquez), Diego
(1599-1660). Spain's greatest painter
was also one of the supreme artists
of all time. A master of technique,
highly individual in style, Diego
Velasquez may have had a greater
influence on European art than any
other painter.
DYNAMIC REALISM
Paul, Cezanne French painter, one of the
greatest of the Postimpressionists, whose
works and ideas were influential in the
aesthetic development of many 20th-
century artists and art movements,
especially Cubism. Cézanne's art,
misunderstood and discredited by the
public during most of his life, grew out of
Impressionism and eventually challenged
all the conventional values of painting in
the 19th century through its insistence on
personal expression and on the integrity of
the painting itself. He has been called the
DREAM-WORLD REALISM

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