Summer in European paintings .ppsx

From Brueghel the Elder's Harvesters to Henri Martin's The Mowers
through
Cézanne's The Bathers and Van Gogh's The Wheatfield behind Saint Paul's Hospital with a Reaper

summer was especially an opportunity for painters to celebrate the joy of living and the harvest …

3. From Brueghel the Elder's Harvesters to Henri Martin's The Mowers
through
Cézanne's The Bathers and Van Gogh's The Wheatfield behind Saint Paul's Hospital with a Reaper
summer was especially an opportunity for painters to celebrate the joy of living and the harvest …

5. Summer
in Europeanpaintings

6. Medieval July …
The month of July is illustrated by
the harvest
and
the sheep shearing …
Four peasants work in the summer fields near Poitiers Castle.
On the other bank of a stream that flows into a river, the Clain,
a man and a woman are shearing sheep with shears.
In the background, the Palais Comtalin Poitiers, owned by the Duc de Berry.
The mountains are imaginary.
Les Frères Limbourg Limbourgbrothers
Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Juillet,
The Very Rich Hoursof the Duke of Berry, July
Las muyricashoras delDuque de Berry, Julio
1412-1416
Musée Condé, Chantilly

10. The Summer of Giuseppe Arcimboldo …
fruits and vegetables …
the border of her hair and also make up her upper lip adorn cherries,
her cheek is made of a peach,
her nose of a cucumber
her ear of an eggplant,
her eyebrow of an ear of wheat,
her dress is made of straw
... an artichoke decorates her chest
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
The Summer
L’Été
Verano
1563
KunsthistorischesMuseum, Vienna

13. The Flemish Harvesters …
the 16th-century rural life
The harvest period is clearly fixed and corresponds
to the month of August in all Flemish calendars
the drowsy heat of harvesttime
fieldworkers who are exhausted, lying or sitting, eating or sleeping
Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Brueghel l’Ancien
The Harvesters
Les Moissonneurs
Los cosechadores
1565
MetropolitanMuseum of Art, New York

18. The dusk of a long summer day ...
an imaginary Italian landscape
a rocky cliff,
trees,
bridge
and
a groups of figures bathing in a river
Joseph Vernet
Summer Evening, Landscapein Italy
Soir d’été, paysage en Italie
Tarde de verano, Paisajeen Italia
1773
Collection
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

22. A summer day in a meadow surrounded by trees …
Boucher, the art of the pastoral,
an entirely imaginary world,
the cousins Lisette and Babette with the Little Shepherd who wins his sweetheart’s affection
and a crown of flowers by serenading her on the bagpipes
François Boucher
Pastoral witha BagpipePlayer or A Summer Pastoral
Pastorale avec un joueur de cornemuse ou Un Été pastoral
Pastoral de Verano
1749
Wallace Collection, London

24. In the heat of summer three ladies bathing under a fountain ...
The fountain is decorated with a sculpture of a dolphin
and two putti
Dolphins were seen as messages of Venus,
as messages of love, and, of course, the two frolicking cupids represent love
a very erotic picture, interestingly enough made for a female patron …
(... particularly adapted to the atmosphere of the Court and characterized by the figure and
tastes of Madame de Pompadour.)
François Boucher
The Four Seasons, Summer
Les Quatre Saisons: l’Été
Las cuatro estaciones, verano
1755
The Frick Collection, New York

28. Summer on the banks of the river Lez in the Montpellier countryside ...
eight male figures basking and bathing
an Arcadia of dreams ...
Frédéric Bazille
Scène d’été ou Les Baigneurs
Summer Sceneor The Bathers
Escenade veranoo Los bañistas
1869
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge

30. Summer evening on the beach ...
The painter Anna Ancherand the artist's wife
strolling on Skagen's Southern Beach
during the blue hour, when the sky
and the sea seem to merge into each other in the same shade of blue
PederSeverin Krøyer
Summer Eveningon Skagen'sBeach
Soirée d’été sur la plage de Skagen
Tarde de veranoen la playade Skagen
1893
SkagensMuseum, Skagen

33. Summer's day on the lake …
The Boisde Boulogne, where Parisians used to escape from their bustling city
Two fashionably dressed women have boarded a boat
and ...
the carriage with its horses speeding past in the background ...
Berthe Morisot
Summer'sDay
Jour d’été ou Le Lac du bois de Boulogne
Díade verano
1879
National Gallery, London

37. Monet's summer ...
ah, that shower of light ...
Claude Monet
Les meules, fin de l’été
Haystacks, end of Summer
Los almiares, fin del verano
1891
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

40. Bright afternoon sunshine in the French countryside ...
characters, trees, baskets, carriage, shadow and light
the harmony of country life …
Camille Pissarro
Apple harvestat Eragny
La récolte des pommes à Éragny
La cosechade manzanas en Eragny
1888
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

43. A summer in the shade of the orange trees …
Caillebotte’s brother Martial,
their young cousin Zoe,
a dog
enjoying the afternoon quietly, immersed in their own thoughts
Gustave Caillebotte
Les Orangers
The Orange Trees
Los naranjos
1878
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

46. Sun on Saint-Rémy ...
Through the window of his room in the Saint-Remy mental hospital,
just beyond the garden wall, a field
Van Gogh to his brother Theo
“I see in this reaper –an undefined figure, struggling in the intense heat
like the devil to finish his work –
I see him as an image of death in the sense that the humans
are the corn that is being cut down....
But this death is not sad, it takes place in bright light
with a sun that covers everything with a light like pure gold.”
Vincent Van Gogh
La moisson. Champ de blé derrière l’hospice Saint-Paul avec un faucheur
La moisson. The WheatfieldbehindSaint Paul'sHospital witha Reaper
La cosecha. Campo de trigo detrásdelhospicioSaint-Paul con un segador
1889
Museum Folkwang, Essen

50. The colors of the southern French countryside in summer …
the warm yellowy-gold of the wheat,
the azure blue of the sky,
the blue-violet of the lavender field
the blue of a cart awaiting another load of freshly-cut wheat,
the medieval abbey of Montmajour.
an Arlésienne,
a small figurof a reaper,
a horse and cart hurries by ...
Vincent van Gogh
The Harvest
La Moisson
La cosecha
June 1888, Arles
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

54. Summer on the banks of the Seine ...
men and boys, immobile as sculptures,
each seems absorbed in his own thoughts
the entire scene has
an almost eerie stillness to it, as if time has been suspended
and all movement temporarily frozen.
... and a bourgeois couple, complete with parasol and top hat,
are being ferried across the river in a boat bearing a tricolor flag
Georges Seurat
Une baignade à Asnières
Bathersat Asnières
Un bañoen Asnières
1884
National Gallery, London

57. Bathing with Cézanne ...
two groups of figures of bathers,
between which there is a white spot that could be a dog
They are on the bank of a river, in which a figure can be seen swimming
Beyond, two figures on the other shore,
and, behind them, a castle
Two groups of leaning trees form a sort of canopy over the bathers
Paul Cézanne
Les Grandes Baigneuses
The Bathers
Las grandesbañistas
1906
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

61. Evening light with long shadows ...
a curtain of poplars with golden outlines, near a river,
men, white shirts and straw hats, working,
three little girls dancing,
a young woman holds her child ...
an ox tied to a cart full of hay,
a man and a woman make small piles of fresh grass hay …
Henri Martin
Les Quatre Saisons, l'Eté, les Faucheurs
Summer, or Mowers
Veranoo cortadorasde césped
1903
Capitole de Toulouse, Toulouse

65. Summer in Europeanpaintings
L’été dans la peinture européenne
El verano en la pintura europea
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