Wednesday, February 7, 2018

JAN Van Eyck

2/7/18

Jan Van Eyck (possibly active between 1390-1440 according to the existing record of his life) was a Netherlandish painter famous for his achievement of developing the Early Netherlandish painting as well as leading the Northern Renaissance. Living in Bruges, his works included early Gothic painting style and mainly focused on realism and naturalism, especially for some religious subjects, figures and symbols. He continued to work on oil painting with using religious symbols; his work had been copied and imitated but still remained great values, and he was also admired by most artists during Renaissance.

The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434.
The symbolism interpretation in this piece is endless; the hand Arnolfini used to hold his wife was left, indicating that the marriage might be "left-hand marriage" that means the marriage is unequal-in the left-hand marriage female is "obliged to forfeit all the usual rights of property and inheritence." Also the dog standing between the couple was considered to be a symbol of faithfulness-the dog was there to ensure the marriage's success.
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6 comments:

  1. UnknownFebruary 15, 2018 at 5:25 AM

    You noticed a couple more things than I. Niice.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 20, 2018 at 4:56 AM

    Your theories on what the painting meant were outstanding. I would have never thought to have dug that deep into symbolism.

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  3. JinglinZFebruary 21, 2018 at 1:38 PM

    thanks for telling me a lot about jan van eyck and his art works, especially the meaning of the wedding painting.

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  4. Flora AckleyFebruary 21, 2018 at 4:05 PM

    I really like your blog and the symbolism you discovered in the painting, I didn't notice a lot of what you did and it is really interesting and cool!

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  5. Ariel hanFebruary 21, 2018 at 6:23 PM

    I like your blog and your explanation about symbolism.You 're really specific about this, which is really nice

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  6. Some Art Opinions with MackFebruary 21, 2018 at 9:24 PM

    I never quite got the symbolism in the piece until you explained it to me! Very well done!

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