Art Analysis: Charming The Animals By Albert Cuyp

Albert Cuyp was a Dutch painter who painted the Charming the Animals. As I walked on the second floor in the Dutch room at Yale Art Gallery in New Haven, I saw a beautiful painting hanging against the wall that quickly caught my attention. This is an landscape painting. As you see the painting, you see varieties of different animals and a guy sitting in the middle of the painting. This painting was lent by the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterlo collection. The material used for this painting is the oil on canvas.

In this painting, the artist painted animals. This painting consists of 54 animals from different parts of the world. Color palette is rich and warm and the light, harmoniously mixed with the shadow. As you can see in the middle of the painting, you see guy sitting in the middle probably …show more content…
As I was looking into the painting, I saw Orpheus is sitting in the center of the painting probably focusing on his music surrounded by birds, a frog, lizard, and couple other animals crouch at his feet. In addition to that, horse, deer, an elephant, a sheep, and unicorn draw near as well as the painter has been focused with green and red color, which usually attracts the audience to appreciate the painting. As well as animals are getting attracted to the poet Orpheus as the tow tigers are probably getting more focused and zoomed in the front side of the painting. The painting is probably about the poet Orpheus, that is capable of of attracting animals and his music is so melodious that animals are getting attracting and enjoying the music. As if we start looking at the upper side, we see that the author used brown and light blue colors. In addition to that he used some dark affect to perfectly show the weather. To me personally, the weather looks like early fall because of the way the trees are painted with perfectly used of brushes and color he used seems like