Search results for: “Pieter de Hooch”
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Eye Candy for Today: Pieter de Hooch interior
Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard, Pieter de Hooch In the Rijskmuseum. This is another of Pieter de Hooch’s marvelous “keyhole paintings”, in which we are not only invited to enter the painting, but to effectively pass through it — first in the form of the window behind the women, which offers a glimpse…
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Pieter de Hooch (update)
In recently writing an article about Pieter de Hooch for Answers.com, it occurred to me that despite a few “eye candy” posts, I haven’t done an update with current links and resources since my original article about him in 2008. Given the similarities between the compositions and subjects of de Hooch and his contemporary Vermeer,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pieter de Hooch elegant interior
Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting, Pieter de Hooch. I love the subtle play of light in the areas outside the main focus. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today is Pieter de Hooch’s birthday. I took the suggestion from the Met’s mention of that fact, and this painting, on Twitter. See my previous post…
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Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch (pronounced de HOOGH, with a hard “g”) is a fascinating painter, both for his own oeuvre and for the inevitable comparisons to his brilliant contemporary Johannes Vermeer. Like Vermeer, de Hooch is noted for his paintings of quiet, light-filled interiors, and occasional tranquil street or courtyard scenes. De hooch was for a…
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Eye Candy for Today: De Hooch courtyard
A Musical Party in a Courtyard, Pieter de Hooch In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. Another of De Hooch’s wonderful explorations of space and light, into which we are irresistibly drawn. Here, De Hooch invites us into a foreground space that, at first glance,…
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Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
In reviewing the exhibition currently at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age, Blacke Gopnik writes in his Washington Post article The ‘Golden’ Compass that contemporary viewers may not know how to correctly look at classic Dutch landscapes and cityscapes. He suggests that this is more than…