Dutch Painting

World of Art

by Rudi Fuchs

Dutch art spans the history of Western easel painting from the Middle Ages to the present, and has a psychological development of its own which makes it a fascinating field of study. With a fresh and critical eye, Fuchs reviews its evolution from the foundation of Netherlandish realism in the fifteenth century with the Van Eycks, through the elevated style of Renaissance history painting, the language of symbols of the seventeenth century and the work of its masters--Claesz's still-lifes, the portraits of Hals and Rembrandt, and Ruisdael's landscapes--and on through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century realism, right up to Van Gogh's pioneering Expressionism, the radical simplification of Mondrian, and the art of Dibbets and Brouwn. 197 illus., 20 in color.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

Reviews

[Jesse Roth]

This was kind of pretentious of me to read. Who do I think I am?

[Chris Bertagnole]

Good place to start!

[Carly7384]

Reading it for a Baroque art class and I'm taken by the Dutch. Their art is so bizarre and completely hilarious. It's interesting, but Dutch art seems so plain.