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Pieter de Hooch
1629-1684
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Dutch
Baroque Painter
Artistically Influenced by the following Painters and Art Movements -
The Northern Renaissance,
Jan van Eyke
Pieter Rembrandt,
Titian,
Raphael and
Vermeer
technique - oil on linen or oak panel
Pieter de Hooch lived during a time of relative artistic freedom compared to the previous centuries. Dutch artists of the 18th century were no longer dependent upon the church or royalty for commissions. The newly prosperous middle class were eager customers.
Distinguished art historian and author, John C. Van Dyke, observed "Pieter de Hooch
was a painter of purely pictorial effects, beginning and ending a picture in a scheme of color, atmosphere, clever composition, and above all the play of light-and-shade. He was one of the early masters of full sunlight, painting it falling across a court-yard or streaming through a window with marvelous truth and poetry. His subjects were commonplace enough. An interior with a figure or two in the middle distance, and a passage-way leading into a lighted background were sufficient for him. These formed a skeleton which he clothed in a half-tone shadow, pierced with warm yellow light, enriched with rare colors, usually garnet reds and deep yellows repeated in the different planes, and surrounded with a subtle pervading atmosphere. As a brushman he was easy but not distinguished, and often his drawing was not correct; but in the placing of color masses and in composing by color and light he was a master of the first rank. Little is known about his life. He probably formed himself on Fabritius or Rembrandt at second-hand, but little trace of the latter is apparent in his work. He seems not to have achieved much fame until late years, and then rather in England than in his own country.
Famous
Quotes About Art
A line is a dot that went for a walk. Paul Klee quote
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. Leonardo
da Vinci quote
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and
whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what
is done in love is well done.”
Vincent
Van Gogh quote
Creativity
takes courage. Henri
Matisse quote
I
shut my eyes in order to see. Paul
Gauguin
quote
The
painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. Leonardo da
Vinci quote
Art is not what
you see, but what you make others see. Edgar
Degas quote
Absinthe is the
only decent drink that suits an artist. Paul Gauguin
quote
Color is my
daylong obsession, joy, and torment. Claude
Monet quote
Art is either
revolution or plagiarism. Paul Gauguin
quote
I
saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo
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