Adriaen van ostade biography

 

Unlike Brouwer, Ostade has no part in the life he studies.

He is a gentleman with a hobby for the observation of peasant life. His attitude is kindly and understanding, just a little condescending. Accordingly his peasants have not the raciness and complete authenticity of Brouwer's.

Adriaen van Ostade was a painter and printmaker of the Baroque period known for his genre pictures of Dutch peasant life.

Adriaen van Ostade was a painter and printmaker of the Baroque period known for his genre pictures of Dutch peasant life.

Adriaen van Ostade was Holland's leading painter of peasant and low-life genre painting.

Adriaen van Ostade was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women.

Adriaen van Ostade was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women.

Biography: Painter, draughtsman and etcher; active in Haarlem.

Ostade sees the peasant in terms of a grotesqueness which is not inherent, but relative to a middle-class point of view. Where Brouwer paints individuals, Ostade frequently resorts to types, and practices, in his squat, gnomelike proportions, a gentle and effective caricature.

When Ostade was still in pupil estate, in the late 1620s, Brouwer was at his brilliant beginnings at Haarlem.

His influence is unmistakably dominant in the early Ostades. The peasant fights, at Munich and Dresden, the carouses, at Munich and Darmstadt, are conceived entirely in Brouwer's drastic vein, but are conducted without his conciseness and fine compositional economy.

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