Vermeer is about light seeping into the room onto people and objects. Hopper is more about space, though each painting has these qualities of space and light. Space has more lighter colours in the distance due to moisture and strong colour in the foreground called aerial perspective. Strong light penetrates into a room and depletes. It is good to compare different painting and find similarities.
I'm native Dutch so Dutch is my mothertongue. I too think he got it pretty much right for an English speaker. Most English speakers pronounce Steen like 'stien' (like in Leonard Bern-stein, or Harvey Wein-stein)... but it's actually pronounced almost identical to "stain". And of course our J is pronounced like the English Y in you. So yeah, Yan Stain works very well for me.
45.30 In addition, it was a bit more than a tradition. There were more reasons but the Dutch revolted against the Inquisition with it's bloody and cruel methods. Both protestants and catholics opposed it. Freedom of conscience was codified in the 1579 Union of Utrecht. So the country had just freed itself from religious dictatorship and religion as a private matter was left alone. There was still the public matter of which protestant denomination was in charge and the public matter of religious ceremony. It differed per city but especially the catholics had to keep a low profile with catholic Spain not recognizing Dutch independence for half the 17th century and continuing the religious war. But there was no risk of the jews teaming up with Spain, otherwise challenging protestant power or trying to convert protestants. So the jews were allowed to build the biggest synagogue in the world in Amsterdam and show off. But the Sephardic jews from Portugal and Spain were just one of many groups of immigrants, generally wealthy but so were lots of other immigrants. It's not like the Netherlands was some backward swamp, it had been prospering for 2 centuries and was the cash cow of Spain until the revolt, so besides maybe some invidual maps there was no special contribution to be mentioned. Rembrandt portrayed quite a few jews and he was expensive, so they faired well. There were several reasons why the Germans managed to kill so many Dutch jews and German jew refugees, but the centuries old sense of safety surely didn't, they nor the gentile Dutch were prepared for the worst or could even imagine the worst.
inquisition with their bloody cruel methods? yeah sure honey .... just ignore the protestant terrorists who raided the entire northern europe torturing priests, gang raping nuns and killing hundreds of thousands of people. the inquisitioners were innocent little puppies compared to the utter sadistic genocidal protestant maniacs.
the first two paintings show. ; something I before see in Victorian England. that the upper classes use painters to show a totally fake and bullshit way the upper classes treat and lack of respect to the lower classes ; and fake way those classes interact and fake social mobility; fake social mobility; the same way celebrities beckham and myrus and the stinking cardacians do today mouthing off all kinds of bull ; my key sentence there in these paintings the fake way that the classes interact; you never saw a happy functioning buzz like that ; not at all; those guys would be down the mines nowhere near the door of the upper classes
The difference between The Netherlands ( first republic in Europe ) back then, and the other countries is really different when it comes to social matters and circonstances.......
@@jsb7975 freedom is weird shit; you cant have it without responsibility as well. ( provided you have the basic obvious freedoms) In Amsterdam you can smoke some weed with out being slung in jail. and with less crime ; not more,. and with crime ; again not being a matter of law; but a matter of something else ; because the people who set the laws; will set them in their own interests and the power people who set the laws; are crazy in the head . I went to Amsterdam as a teenager. I walked among the weed dealers and legal prostitutes. and then I took a poster off the wall for an art project. I was questioned for hours by your police. for this fly poster. and I was thinking ; WTF. these power people ; who make laws ; they are insane; messed in the head they really are . all the same; I get that when freedom responsibility and power are all used together; then you have got something in Amsterdam and Netherlands; that does not happen very often
Frans Hals captures every expression in his work. To my eye no other Dutch artist captured the nuance in facial expression and complexion.
Jan Lievens was someone who painted faces in unbelievable detail.
This makes me miss my university days - studied art history. Thank you for the upload - really appreciate it!
Amazing video! I love anything with art and learning more about the Dutch golden age was truly fascinating 🤍🤍🤍
Outstanding lecture.
amazing lecture and answers for questions
Beautiful
Great talk! ⚡️
Vermeer is about light seeping into the room onto people and objects. Hopper is more about space, though each painting has these qualities of space and light. Space has more lighter colours in the distance due to moisture and strong colour in the foreground called aerial perspective. Strong light penetrates into a room and depletes. It is good to compare different painting and find similarities.
It's Jan Steen not Yann Stain
I'm native Dutch so Dutch is my mothertongue. I too think he got it pretty much right for an English speaker. Most English speakers pronounce Steen like 'stien' (like in Leonard Bern-stein, or Harvey Wein-stein)... but it's actually pronounced almost identical to "stain". And of course our J is pronounced like the English Y in you. So yeah, Yan Stain works very well for me.
Whos the artist at 6:40?
Jacob Duck
The old mfa logo was so much lovelier 😒
45.30 In addition, it was a bit more than a tradition. There were more reasons but the Dutch revolted against the Inquisition with it's bloody and cruel methods. Both protestants and catholics opposed it. Freedom of conscience was codified in the 1579 Union of Utrecht. So the country had just freed itself from religious dictatorship and religion as a private matter was left alone. There was still the public matter of which protestant denomination was in charge and the public matter of religious ceremony. It differed per city but especially the catholics had to keep a low profile with catholic Spain not recognizing Dutch independence for half the 17th century and continuing the religious war.
But there was no risk of the jews teaming up with Spain, otherwise challenging protestant power or trying to convert protestants. So the jews were allowed to build the biggest synagogue in the world in Amsterdam and show off. But the Sephardic jews from Portugal and Spain were just one of many groups of immigrants, generally wealthy but so were lots of other immigrants. It's not like the Netherlands was some backward swamp, it had been prospering for 2 centuries and was the cash cow of Spain until the revolt, so besides maybe some invidual maps there was no special contribution to be mentioned. Rembrandt portrayed quite a few jews and he was expensive, so they faired well.
There were several reasons why the Germans managed to kill so many Dutch jews and German jew refugees, but the centuries old sense of safety surely didn't, they nor the gentile Dutch were prepared for the worst or could even imagine the worst.
inquisition with their bloody cruel methods? yeah sure honey .... just ignore the protestant terrorists who raided the entire northern europe torturing priests, gang raping nuns and killing hundreds of thousands of people. the inquisitioners were innocent little puppies compared to the utter sadistic genocidal protestant maniacs.
the first two paintings show. ; something I before see in Victorian England. that the upper classes use painters to show a totally fake and bullshit way the upper classes treat and lack of respect to the lower classes ; and fake way those classes interact and fake social mobility; fake social mobility; the same way celebrities beckham and myrus and the stinking cardacians do today mouthing off all kinds of bull ; my key sentence there in these paintings the fake way that the classes interact; you never saw a happy functioning buzz like that ; not at all; those guys would be down the mines nowhere near the door of the upper classes
The difference between The Netherlands ( first republic in Europe ) back then, and the other countries is really
different when it comes to
social matters and circonstances.......
@@jsb7975 freedom is weird shit; you cant have it without responsibility as well. ( provided you have the basic obvious freedoms) In Amsterdam you can smoke some weed with out being slung in jail. and with less crime ; not more,. and with crime ; again not being a matter of law; but a matter of something else ; because the people who set the laws; will set them in their own interests and the power people who set the laws; are crazy in the head . I went to Amsterdam as a teenager. I walked among the weed dealers and legal prostitutes. and then I took a poster off the wall for an art project. I was questioned for hours by your police. for this fly poster. and I was thinking ; WTF. these power people ; who make laws ; they are insane; messed in the head they really are . all the same; I get that when freedom responsibility and power are all used together; then you have got something in Amsterdam and Netherlands; that does not happen very often
@@GeldorfMcleod agreed
Unlike Victorian England, there wasn't really an upper class (nobility) in the Netherlands, the arts belonged to the middle class
@@GeldorfMcleod this is exactly why Amsterdam is such an absolute shithole.
The pronunciation of Dutch names is a total disgrace!