Saturday, May 9, 2009

Painting

The Linen Closet, by Pieter de Hooch
The key words of this paining are "plunge through". This is something can draw your eyes in and through the space. As Martha Hollander states in An Entrance for the eyes: space and meaning in Seventeenth Century Dutch Art "[o]ur composition should enjoy a fine quality, for the delight of our sense, if we there allow a view or vista with samll backgroung figures and a distant landscape, into which the eyes can plunge. We should take care sometimes to place our figures in the middle of the foreground, and let one see over them for many miles."

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