Monday, October 24, 2016

Three Dutch Baroque Artists

Leonaert Bramer
Still life with traveling trunk
17th century
etching
British Museum

atrtributed to Leonaert Bramer
Rearing horse
17th century
drawing
British Museum

Leonaert Bramer
Sorrow of Hecuba
ca. 1630
oil on copper
Prado

Leonaert Bramer
Study for an oval ceiling
17th century
drawing
British Museum

"Tourism is the dominant mode of our culture. It turns time into space and cancels the latter in the ubiquity of the image. For production in the symbolic, it substitutes consumption in the imaginary. The world is a museum where the imaginary museum has preceded us  it's banal to reiterate this, so long after Valéry, Benjamin and Malraux. What is curious is that the educational system still hasn't registered it. Great consumer of audio-visual techniques, it pretends not to have anything but an instrumental relation to them, which leaves it unscathed. And it is precisely by being blinkered to the fact that cultural transmission happens in the mode of simulation  in other words, in Flash Art rather than at the museum  that educators, whose mission is to transmit culture, have morphed into welcoming hosts of a great cultural Disneyland. Hello young people, let us guide you to the realm of simulation."

 Thierry de Duve, translated by Ian Farr, from Talent, Creativity, Judgment (1993)

Willem van Mieris
Nymph pursued by Apollo
late 17th century or early 18th century
drawing
British Museum

Willem van Mieris
Cheiron the Centaur bearing the infant Asclepius meets his daughter Ocyroe, a Prophetess
1694
etching
British Museum

Willem van Mieris
Drunken man
1691
watercolor on vellum
British Museum

Willem van Mieris
Courtesan
1691
watercolor on vellum
British Museum

Abraham Bloemaert
Six women wearing headscarves
17th century
drawing
British Museum

Abraham Bloemaert
Village with thatched buildings
ca. 1595-1605
drawing
British Museum

Abraham Bloemaert
Thatched stables and a thatched cottage
ca. 1595-1605
drawing
British Museum

Abraham Bloemaert
Pollard willows in winter
17th century-
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Abraham Bloemaert
Two figures beneath a tree
1650
drawing
British Museum

Abraham Bloemaert
Bears devouring the children who mocked the prophet Elisha
17th century
drawing
British Museum