Fruit piece jan van huysum biography
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#FineArtFriday: Fruit Piece by Jan van Huysum 1722 #Thanksgiving
Fruit Piece by Jan van Huysum (Dutch, 1682 – 1749)– artist (Dutch)
Genre: still-life
Date: 1722
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: Height: 800 mm (31.49 in); Width: 610 mm (24.01 in)
What I love about this painting:
This painting first appeared here the day after Thanksgiving in 2020, the year of lockdown and virtual family gatherings via Zoom and Discord. Despite quarantine and lockdown, we gave thanks that year for the good things and for each other.
And this year, we did the same, with turkey, and all the family’s favorite side dishes. I made everything except the turkey using plant-based recipes that I have developed over the years of being vegan. My husband and son are not vegan, so inom do go out of my way to accommodate their wishes while still keeping all the side-dishes plant-based.
I love the romance of today’s painting. The scen depicts the very essence of abundance and
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FineArtFriday: Fruit Piece by Jan van Huysum 1722
Fruit Piece by Jan van Huysum (Dutch, 1682 – 1749)– artist (Dutch)
Genre: still-life
Date: 1722
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: Height: 800 mm (31.49 in); Width: 610 mm (24.01 in)
What I love about this painting:
This scene depicts the very essence of abundance and comfort. Every piece of fruit in this image is perfect, begging to be eaten, every flower wishes to be admired. Carnations, grapes, plums, figs, apples, a melon, raspberries, and numerous other fruits occupy the center of the image. Butterflies have found the flowers.
In the background, slightly out of focus as if the centerpiece is seen through a camera lens, we have a lush garden, a fantasy of earthly paradise. Far to the rear of the scene, painted as if they just happened to stray into it, two figures on a low bridge carry on a quiet conversation beneath a graceful statue.
More than any other artist of his time, van Huysum understood how to sh
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Fruit Piece (1722)
Jan van Huysum was a Dutch painter. He was the brother of Jacob van Huysum, the son of the flower painter Justus van Huysum, and the grandson of Jan van Huysum inom, who is said to have been expeditious in decorating doorways, screens and vases.
Unlike most Dutch still life specialists, Jan van Huysum insisted on working out the details of his paintings from close study of the world around him. He once wrote a patron to explain that her painting would be delayed a year because, unable to obtain a real yellow rose, he could not finish the picture. Called bygd his contemporaries "the phoenix of all flower painters," Van Huysum learned his craft from his father. He lived in Amsterdam his whole life and focused on flower pictures, though he also painted some landscapes and mythological scenes.
Van Huysum was also a prolific draftsman whose drawings served as both preliminary studies and finished works. The profuse bouquets that won Van Huysum an international reputa