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Peter Paul Rubens Mulberry Tree Analysis

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Peter Paul Rubens is one of my favorite painters, he opened the Baroque style. Rubens was the first European Baroque painter; he was representative of the early Baroque painting. From a viewer’s point of view, people can see that his paintings are colorful, beautiful composition, and all his paintings have story. Rubens thinks that color is just important as the emotion and acting, so he chose the moment when David taken his swords is about to cut the head of his adversary, the acting itself. The style that Rubens used was a very good use of color, he emphasizing the movement; people can see the acting that David is taking. David represents very muscular, he wearing a robe. And this robe is the Roman style robe, ever thought David is not a …show more content…

Like most of his art, the high point and the low point in this period of slf-awareness great time painting, but surrounding the chaos. People can see a tree growing out of the rock terrain. The Mulberry tree represents the asylum garden. It was around on the canvas, and has grown from a rocky hillside alone. The ground is white and brown short quick strokes. It creates a strong contrast to the dark green and brown trunk. On the right, people can see more green, indicating that the growth of trees away, leaves on the trees make up the majority of the painting and the orange against the blue sky of complementary color. It is “superb autumn”, it gave Vincent’s painting bright orange leaves. The ground and sky is mostly straight diagonal strokes, and the leaves of the tree are the orange and black, sometimes with his brush handle made coiled coil. The work of art originally located of displayed and the commissioned it is “Camille Pissarro, Paris, by 1890, by inheritance to; Madame C. Pissarro, Paris; [Ambroise Vollard, Paris]. Alphonse Kann (1870-1948), Saint Germain-en-Laye by 1928, still in 1934, presumably inherited by; Michael Stewart, London.[David Gibbs, London and New York, sold 19 October 1961 to]; [Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London, sold 12 November 1961 to]; Norton Simon, gift 1976 to; Norton Simon Art Foundation.”

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