Characteristic Elements of the Painting of the Flemish Primitives

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Characteristic Elements of the Painting of the Flemish Primitives

Flemish Primitives started the Flemish school of painting during the 15th and early 16th centuries in Flanders (the territories of what would now be Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and French Burgundy).

 

Extreme detail.

Verismo. Real beauty, as opposed to ideal beauty.

The rediscovery of oil which gives the technical possibility of extreme detail.

Vivid and bright colors, also possible thanks to oil.

Disregard for proportions. In contrast to the interest in detailed precision.

Stylized figures. An intentional disproportion, inherited from the Gothic, whose purpose is to achieve greater elegance, greater "grace."

Exaggerated gestures.

Psychological portrait. Highlighting some features regarding the emotional aspect of a character may result in a portrait that may seem like a "caricature."

Importance of genre painting.

 

Recommended links:

The Flemish Primitives.

Artistic Movements I: from Classical Antiquity to Rococo.

The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck.

The Money Changer and His Wife, Quentin Massys.

Van Eyck and the Rediscovery of Oil.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490-1500), El Bosco.

The Grotesque.

Characteristic Elements of Renaissance Painting.

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