THE PAINTER FRANS SNYDERS
In fact, a unique composition by Frans Snyders created in the Flemish art a new direction, as the main part of the works of the painter to the genre of still life applies only conditionally. Size of each canvas is more than three meters in length and two in height, which gives them monumental signs-декоративного art.
These grandiose decorative paintings depicting the shelves piled high with poultry, fish, vegetables and fruit, as well as images of sellers and buyers brought worldwide fame to the Flemish painter.
a Little about the artist
Little Frans was born in 1579 in Antwerp in the family of the owner of a large tavern, which is very popular among the local gourmets. The boy from an early age saw a variety of eatables, subsequently became his main object image.
a Gift for drawing emerged early. And in 13-летнем age he became a pupil of Pieter Brueghel the Younger. And at the age of 22, Frans Snyders was accepted into the Guild of St. Luke @- shop organization, uniting artists.
About a year France is lived in Italy in order to improve skills. And when I returned I became friends with Peter Paul Rubens, working with whom he painted in his paintings flowers, fruits and animals. There are many paintings which are a Testament to their creative Union.
Thanks to the Snyders Rubens managed to find those ways in which" со all the force of his talent". He moved to the large monumental and decorative style, afterwards brought him worldwide fame.
the Artist wrote his works for famous customers, among their number was the Spanish king Philip IV, as well as for wealthy citizens who wanted to see their apartment exceptionally beautiful still lifes, evoking appetite and as if talking about the income homeowners. Typically, these monumental paintings adorned the table.
Looking at the grandiose paintings of the Flemish masters, an Association with a horn of plenty from which on the shelves in a chaotic manner poured out a variety of fruits and vegetables, piles of all kinds of forest game and overseas outlandish delicacies.
What attracts special attention is the fact that along with the dead animals, birds, fish written living representatives of the animal world. It is a monkey, parrots, squirrels, cats, hunting dogs, attracted by the smell of fresh meat, nuts and sweet fruit.
Almost all of the artist"s work is saturated with objects and images, but he very skillfully managed to have all this abundance in the whole compositional range, it is not a burden to his paintings.
Singing in paint the richness of nature and the gifts of the earth, the Snyders with an extraordinary penetration of the passed shape, texture and color of the objects, packing them in decorative compositions. Soaking in this rich color scheme.
However, during the Snyders in fact there was such an abundance in shops. The majority of the artist was guided by fiction and his imagination. He tried just-навсего to emphasize how the land is rich in nature"s gifts.
Source: https://kulturologia.EN/blogs/020318/37969/
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