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Item No: 25095
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| Keywords: Smokers, Smokers, Smoker, Man, Smoke, Broom, Table, Dutch, Flemish, Baroque, Genre, Figures, Men, Tavern, Interior, Drinking, Smoking, Brown, Oil, Painting, Humour, Masters, Baroque, |
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Brouwer, Adriaen (1605-38),
Adriaen Brouwer, a leading Flemish-Dutch genre painter, was born in Oudenaerde, Holland. He travelled to Antwerp in 1620, then spent time in Amsterdam in 1625. He lived in Haarlem from 1626 to 1631, where Frans Hals, with whom he may have studied, influenced him. Brouwer returned to Antwerp in 1632 and remained there until his death.
His earliest works, produced before 1626, are bright, colourful peasant scenes that show the influence of Brueghel. After his contact with Hals, however, his style became more atmospheric, free in brushwork, and full of expression. His subject matter - peasant life, drinking bouts, tavern fights - may very well have come from his own experience, for he is said to have led an excessive life, and heavy drinking eventually caused his early death.
Brouwer's short career is marked by constant artistic growth. His peasants, although marked by the seamy side of life, are robust, dramatic, exceedingly real, and picturesque. Brouwer is not kind to his subjects, but sees them clearly and without sentimentality. After his return to Antwerp, his style changed again. He began to use figures that were larger in relation to the space they occupied; he emphasized facial expression, often rendering it almost in caricature. Toward the very end of his life, he began to paint dreamy, poetic landscapes of twilight scenes that are as indicative of his ability to observe nature as his genre scenes are of his feeling for the life around him. |
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