The storm has passed, leaving the land broken, the water shaky, and the sky at bay. I chose this particular canvas because the content makes you inquisitive about the changing sky. This painting makes me feel peaceful; like the calm after the storm. This composition reminds me of places I would like to travel in Germany, I love the old castles. The artist Jacob van Ruisdael oil painted this canvas, using more secondary hues to portray the landscape and the mood. The use of secondary hues makes the painting more bleak, dull, or somber.
The artist adds emphasis to the focal point which is the Castle surrounded by the changing clouds. Your attention is drawn there because the painter used contrasting colors. Ruisdael used directional force by painting light colors on top and dark colors on the bottom of the painting. When you are going through the travel experience in this particular painting, you are use to the local color, then your eyes have to adjust to the darker spots in the painting to see all of the details. However good Ruisdael was at clouds and trees, he was better still at what he observed, rather than scenes he imagined (Lambirth, 2006).
After visiting the Minnesota Institute of Art museum I concluded the lighting of the environment around …show more content…
Who taught the boy? Possibly his father Isaack, who was a gifted but not prolific painter as well as an occasional dealer, but more probably his uncle Salomon van Ruysdael (note the variant spelling), who was a landscape painter of some standing. But from the start young Ruisdael's handling of paint had a different quality to it--it was both denser and more energetic, as can be seen in the examples of his early work (Lambirth,
The artist adds emphasis to the focal point which is the Castle surrounded by the changing clouds. Your attention is drawn there because the painter used contrasting colors. Ruisdael used directional force by painting light colors on top and dark colors on the bottom of the painting. When you are going through the travel experience in this particular painting, you are use to the local color, then your eyes have to adjust to the darker spots in the painting to see all of the details. However good Ruisdael was at clouds and trees, he was better still at what he observed, rather than scenes he imagined (Lambirth, 2006).
After visiting the Minnesota Institute of Art museum I concluded the lighting of the environment around …show more content…
Who taught the boy? Possibly his father Isaack, who was a gifted but not prolific painter as well as an occasional dealer, but more probably his uncle Salomon van Ruysdael (note the variant spelling), who was a landscape painter of some standing. But from the start young Ruisdael's handling of paint had a different quality to it--it was both denser and more energetic, as can be seen in the examples of his early work (Lambirth,