11.08.2018-04.12.2019
CARAVAGISM IN EUROPE
At the height of the Golden Age, Flemish and Dutch painting, marked by its prestige and prosperity, had for a long time carried an ambivalent heritage regarding its autonomy towards the Caravagesque invention of the chiaroscuro. The Baroque, as a period of major artistic upheavals, saw the emergence in Europe of a good amount of representatives of the Caravagism and the Tenebrism. Certain exhibitors of Flemish and Dutch painting, coming in particular from the school of Utrecht, embraced however a strong evolution at the heart of their own culture as a reply to this artistic movement, wethever they had chosen or not to undertake a sojourn in Italy.
By exploring the traditional genres of the painting of the 17th century, the exhibition “Caravagism in Europe”, which will be held at the Gallery Salomon Lilian, will focus on the main characteristics of works such as “The denial of Saint Peter” of Adam de Coster (Mechelen, 1585, - Antwerp, 1643) or “The portrait of a man” of Hendrick Bloemaert (Gorinchem, 1564, - Utrecht, 1651,) who, while underlining from the darkest to the most innocent aspects of the human being, brings into account the specific treatment of the northern chiaroscuro, interesting thanks to certain of its own figurative innovations, that the beholder.
Image
HENDRICK BLOEMAERT
1601/02 – Utrecht – 1672
Democritus
Huile sur toile
95.5 x 73.9 cm