Spanish Realist/Impressionist Painter, 1863-1923  Related Paintings of Joaquin Sorolla :. | Biscay provinces draft | Avila Landscape | An experimental study | My Wife and Daughters in the Garden, | Bride |
Related Artists:
Alexandre Roubtzoff
Russian, 1884-1949
Oliver Dennett Grover
American, 1861-1927
WTEWAEL, Joachim
Dutch painter (b. 1566, Utrecht, d. 1638, Utrecht). Dutch painter and draughtsman. He was one of the last exponents of MANNERISM. From c. 1590 until 1628, the year of his latest known dated paintings, he employed such typical Mannerist formal devices as brilliant decorative colour, contrived spatial design and contorted poses. He sometimes combined such artifice with naturalism, and this amalgam represents the two approaches Dutch 16th- and 17th-century theorists discussed as uyt den geest ('from the imagination') and naer 't leven ('after life'). Wtewael's activity reflects the transition from Mannerism to a more naturalistic style in Dutch art. Slightly over 100 of his paintings and about 80 drawings are known. Subjects from the Bible and mythology predominate;