This week's I Heart Art comes from Seams of Thought reader and resident art expert, Lindsay Pomphrett. Lindsay holds a both a B.A. and a Masters in Art History and is devoted to the fine and decorative arts, with a special interest in art of the nineteenth century. Lucky for us, she is willing to share her love and knowledge with all of us!
Take it away Lindsay...
William Degouve de Nuncques
Nocturne au Parc Royal de Brussels, 1897, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Black Swan, 1896, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterloo
The Canal, 1894, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterloo
William Degouve de Nuncques was a Belgian Symbolist painter in the late nineteenth century, known for creating peaceful and harmonious images of solitude and silence. Symbolist painters, often working in France and Belium at the end of the nineteenth century, explored the borders between dreams and reality. The works of Degouve de Nuncques are typical of Belgian symbolism in that he moved away from imitations of nature to create his own emotive interpretations of it. The absence of detail and the lack of narrative in his pictures eschew a specificity of location; the landscape is merely a means of conveying the sense of melancholic solitude that permeates the scene. Devoid of human presence, his pieces suggest a dreamy, timeless other world that still resonates with twenty-first century audiences, transporting us to an internal dreamland.
- Lindsay
Wonderful, no? And there's more where that came from in the weeks to come. Thank you Lindsay!
You too can participate in I Heart Art, here's how.
Happy Friday all! Have a fabulous weekend!
William Degouve de Nuncques
Nocturne au Parc Royal de Brussels, 1897, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Black Swan, 1896, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterloo
The Canal, 1894, Kroller-Muller Museum, OtterlooWilliam Degouve de Nuncques was a Belgian Symbolist painter in the late nineteenth century, known for creating peaceful and harmonious images of solitude and silence. Symbolist painters, often working in France and Belium at the end of the nineteenth century, explored the borders between dreams and reality. The works of Degouve de Nuncques are typical of Belgian symbolism in that he moved away from imitations of nature to create his own emotive interpretations of it. The absence of detail and the lack of narrative in his pictures eschew a specificity of location; the landscape is merely a means of conveying the sense of melancholic solitude that permeates the scene. Devoid of human presence, his pieces suggest a dreamy, timeless other world that still resonates with twenty-first century audiences, transporting us to an internal dreamland.
- Lindsay
Wonderful, no? And there's more where that came from in the weeks to come. Thank you Lindsay!
You too can participate in I Heart Art, here's how.
Happy Friday all! Have a fabulous weekend!
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