Wednesday, March 10, 2010

For March 12th

This is a painting that is not in our textbook. Name the artist and your reasons for the choice.

22 comments:

Nina said...

This painting looks like a Rubens painting. This is because you can see his detail in the muscular form and there is a lot of movement. He paints people in an ideal shape and has a light source from all around. Rubens is a good example of the transition from High Renaissance, Classical art, to Baroque art.

Sarah M. said...

I think that this painting is very similar to works done by Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish Baroque painter. This scene is very similar to his "Raising of the Cross" with one character being lifted and another at their feet. The women in his paintings are also very voluptuous, like in his "Marie de' Medici Cycle", and the rugged man on the right strongly resembles the men in the "Raising of the Cross".

Lauren said...

i think this is a Peter Rubens painting. In looking st the picture there is a lot of movement and defined musculature. Rubens also does not have one single light source but the light is around the painting which means it was probably painted just before the Baroque began.

Kristen said...

This painting seems like a work of Flemish Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens.This painting is very similar to the "Raising of the Cross" by him. The muscular figures are alike. This painting uses rich colors,and different textures, characteristics of the Flemish style in which Rubens painted. Also, there is alot of movement within both scenes and a realism to both paintings.

Anonymous said...

I think that the artist of this painting is the Flemish Baroque painter, Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens often painted mythological scenes and this painting and this painting is mythological containing sensual and eloquent elements. Additionally, the diagonals and light source present in the painting indicate Rubens and typical Baroque art.

Steven said...

This painting was clearly done by Ruben. For example there is no one single light source which is similar in many of his paintings. In addition, there is a lot of movement which is similar in all of Rubens paintings. There is also a diagonal which is a part of Ruben's work.

Ilya said...

The artist of this piece is most likely Ruben, the Flemish painter. This is because of the bright and flamboyant colors used. The muscular figures depicted are also typical of Rueben. The movement of the figures depicted as well as the light source of the painting are two characteristics of Reuben's paintings.

William Kimak said...

This is a painting by Rubens which does not seem to be as well known as other works of this artist. Still, there are traces of Classical effects by the artist, along with Baroque elements, especially the depicting of dramatic movement. Still, Rubens uses more than one light source in this mythological work.

Anonymous said...

This specific piece is by Peter Paul Rubens. He was a seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, who is characterized by his use of an ornate Baroque style that accentuated movement, color, and sensuality. He is famous for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. This piece is called the Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus. This was one of his more well known works that he created in the early seventeenth century. Some other commonly know pieces of his include The Elevation of the Cross (1610)and The Lion Hunt (1617-18). He depicted many religious and hunting themes, as well as landscapes, but is best known for his unclothed figures. He enjoyed portraying women.

Tyler Carroll said...

due to the strong connection with the "raising of the cross." Both pieces have a similar triangular arrangement and the body of the women in this piece is contorted and rendered just as Ruben depicted Christ in the raising of the cross. Although based on pure speculation there are two houses depicted in the right panel of the raising of the cross piece. two identical horses appear in the piece on the blog.

Peter said...

This is most likely a painting by Rubens. The work is very similar to his "Raising of the Cross" with the triangular set up as well as the bright and vivid colors which were present in Rubens' works. The unclear and perhaps multiple light sources help affirm this.

Anonymous said...

This painting is full of movement and the figures muscles are extremely defined and prominent. Also the figures are arranged in a diagonal. The colors are rich and the scene is a mythological scene. All of there descriptions are characteristics of the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Rubens

Kassie said...

This painting is likely by the Flanders painter, Peter Paul Rubens. This is due to the use of rich colors and fabric detail, likely from northern influence, and heroic nude, muscular figures and dramatic lighting from Italy. However, instead of other artists of the Baroque period, Rubens has a level light source, without the extreme tenebrism exhibited in other paintings.

Calli K. said...

This work was most likely painted by the Flemish artist, Peter Paul Ruben. Throughout the Baroque period, Ruben characterized his works with the use of bright colors and a single light source. Ruben depicts a great deal of movement in this piece, which he combines with extremely detailed musculature.

Áine said...

The artist of this piece is probably famous Flemish Baroque painter, Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens is noted for his characteristic portrayal of light, depicting not a singular light source but light from all around. The colors used in this painting are quite rich, also a trademark of Flemish Baroque. This piece shares several traits with Rubens' "The Elevation of the Cross" such as the portrayal of male/female bodies and the textures used.

Mina said...

Based on compositional and stylistic elements, the painting was most likely done by Peter Paul Rubens, an influential Flemish painter during the Baroque period. When comparing this work to Rubens's Raising of the Cross, the diagonal forms and painterly style are very similar. In addition to this, the incorporation of nude figures (minus limited drapery) as well as horses are common between the two works. Finally, the rendering of both the sky and the musculature of figures serves as a tie between the two works.

Caitlin said...

Based on features such as detail, movement and the shape of the figures, I believe this painting was done by Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens was a flemish painter who's paintings featured very detailed musculature, sensual female forms, meticulous detail in texture and bright colors that is characteristic of flemish painting. Also, there is no single light source.

Megan O. said...

Peter Paul Rubens is most likely the artist of this Baroque work. Like many of Rubens' works, this piece incorporates harsh diagonals, expressive facial features, and muscular tension. The styles within this piece art also represented in Rubens' the Raising of the cross, where both exhibit a sense of an event taking place in a random point in time. Both works also express movement, commonly seen in the Baroque era and is frequently exaggerated in Rubens' works.

Unknown said...

This work is most likely done by the Flemish painter Peter Rubens. LIke most of Rubens work this painting displays great movement, musculature, and diagonals. In addition, the lack of a single light source is characteristic of Rubens.

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Justine said...

This painting looks like it was done by Flemish painter Peter Rubens. It is full of movement, has diaganals, there isn't one light source, and there are rich colors.

Unknown said...

The piece posted was done by the Flemish Baroque artist, Rubens. I could tell the painting was a Rubens due to the many similarities in style between his piece "The Raising of the Cross," and the painting exemplified on the blog. For example, both pieces include intense emotion, a diagonal composition, nude figures, rich colors, and dramatic lighting.