Rijksmuseum Masterpieces

We talked a little bit about the Dutch Golden Age a little bit in class. If I ever go to Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam I would really like to see, The Little Street by Vermeer, Morning Ride Along the Beach by Anton Mauve, and Stillevan Met Vergulde Bierkan by Willem Claesz. First off The Little Street by Vermeer was eye catching to me because of the uniformity it had as a landscape, but then the brighter more vibrant colors that Vermeer had access to, which we spoke of in class, popped out quite intensely in comparison to the rest of the building atmosphere. It is also the feeling it gave me that made it stand out to me it reminds me not of 16th century, but of small towns in cities today, favela's and communities similar to that nature.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Johannes_Vermeer_-_Gezicht_op_huizen_in_Delft,_bekend_als_'Het_straatje'_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/827px-Johannes_Vermeer_-_Gezicht_op_huizen_in_Delft,_bekend_als_'Het_straatje'_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Next was the Morning Ride Along the Beach, this caught my eye because of the realism and over all good feel it brought about just by looking at it. The brush strokes where kind of sloppy (in an intentional way) and to me it looks like the beach, the water and the horses all blend into the scenery but it isn't a bad thing because the scenery is somewhere I'd like to be and reminds me of pure relaxation. Also I feel like a lot of the tones sort of mend together to draw attention to the men on the horses and makes you wonder where they are headed while trekking through this beautiful area.

http://paintingandframe.com/uploadpic/anton_mauve/big/morning_ride_on_the_beach.jpg

Lastly the Stillavan Met Vergulde Bierkan was the most amazing to me because it was insanely realistic and the almost perfect attention to detail in certain areas of the painting. The perfect details in my opinion were with the realism added to the metals displayed in the painting. If I was to not know this was a painting and looked at just the metal instruments on the table specifically I would have a really tough time knowing if it was a photograph or not, and to me that is impressive. Then another minor touch was showing the light sources off the class in the center, via window panels and that kind of draws your eye to the center of the painting and helps it make more sense in regards to lighting.

https://lh4.ggpht.com/yf01__YGn2oSRGIl3CW32IifUK7AoJc2J7vkSVr3EaWouHwiRmonJVxJNfE3RkKZHvd1Rvk1ZEfarN1JXi1sKcP1vWk