I've no idea about his intention to convey calm, but life - every day, ordinary, life - isn't frenetic - it is quiet, it is alone, it is calm. For a mother while the children are outside or at school and the husband at work, she lives in her head.
This one shows the mood, the solitude, the unawareness of any other presence in the room. He's captured the stance of the woman perfectly. You can taste the fresh milk that she's pouring from the jug.
True, we do live in our heads when the kids are not around.
But when the kids get home everything is a mess and constant movement and pitched emotion.
Yet, it is almost like he deletes all scenes of those kind of movement and motion.
The motion he paints is minimal as he forces a calm emotional focus onto the viewer. We are not looking at hectic every day life, we are looking at still moments interrupted only by a solid gaze or the pouring of milk.
I think his paintings probably perfectly reflect his personality, calm, deliberate, methodical.
But it is the calm that he overwhelms with. It makes me believe he was doing it on purpose.
My personal favorite. The Milk Maid.
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I wonder if he purposely tried to convey 'calm'.
He obviously had a focus on normal everyday life, but all of his painting, in all of them, there is not any high emotion, or pitched movement.
I wonder about him and his calmness.
I've no idea about his intention to convey calm, but life - every day, ordinary, life - isn't frenetic - it is quiet, it is alone, it is calm. For a mother while the children are outside or at school and the husband at work, she lives in her head.
This one shows the mood, the solitude, the unawareness of any other presence in the room. He's captured the stance of the woman perfectly. You can taste the fresh milk that she's pouring from the jug.
And I forgot to say, I really love this one. Well, I'm a dairy farmer's daughter.
True, we do live in our heads when the kids are not around.
But when the kids get home everything is a mess and constant movement and pitched emotion.
Yet, it is almost like he deletes all scenes of those kind of movement and motion.
The motion he paints is minimal as he forces a calm emotional focus onto the viewer. We are not looking at hectic every day life, we are looking at still moments interrupted only by a solid gaze or the pouring of milk.
I think his paintings probably perfectly reflect his personality, calm, deliberate, methodical.
But it is the calm that he overwhelms with. It makes me believe he was doing it on purpose.
A dairy farmer?
I did not know that. very interesting.
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