Art 101

Phoenix University |

From Past to the Present

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Art time line |

5/1/2011

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Figure 1

Artist: Sir Anthony Van Dyck

Flemish (1599-1641)

Title of piece: Portrait of a Flemish Lady

Done on an oil canvas

Created around 1618

Privet Collection of Andrew W. Mellon

www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg42434/gg4243-573.html

Sir Anthony van Dyck created elegant and refined yet sophisticated woman from the past. Dyck made sure to use the lighting techniques to emphasize the gold embroidery going down the front of the dress and the white millstone collar and the lasing around the sleeves. Dyck was only nineteen years old upon this creation. The straight lines show the elegancy and beauty of a woman. The artist’s style was oil painting and printing later in his life. He learned under the great Peter Paul Ruben. Dyck moved back and forth between Antwerp, England and London, creating many portraits along the way. He all so created biblical settings and a few paintings inside churches.

Figure 2

Title is Virgin of the Rosary of Guapulo

About 1680

Peruvian (Cuzco)

Oil on Canvas

Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, (1964)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/64.164.385

Figure 3

Title Richard Bill

Artist John Smibert

1733

Oil on canvas

The Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.davidrumsey.com/amica/amico849566-5299.html

This painting from Cuzco is of a representation of a miracle-working cult figure. It is a native parish in Guapulo located outside of Quito, Ecuador. If you notice that this artist has painted matching robs and you can see the loving gaze upon mother and infant child. As you can see the fine lines and the attention to details on the robs and the crowns, Cuzco painted this Spanish portrait to show how enthusiastically people were about the Spanish ways of dress. As you can see the foot stool that the mother is standing on has faces carved into it and the tradition of the Pre-Columbian Andean customs. The way the...