Doorzien – a Dutch word translated as “to see through.” In dutch art, doorzien referred to a painting that showed a view from one room into another, making the picture especially beautiful.
Nicholas Maes, 1657 (Danish)
Pieter de Hooch, 1660 (Dutch)
Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1900 (Danish)
Carlos San Millan, current (Ecuadorian)
Edward Hopper, 1932 (American)
Hey, would one of you mind opening the door please?
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I thought I’d collect some turkeys for you. Most, at the moment of rendering, are inedible, but likely so is yours at this point. Be thankful you do not have to pluck, and enjoy the day. From https://www.artic.edu/artworks/21727/thanksgiving : “Doris Lee’s bustling scene of women preparing a Thanksgiving feast became the object …
She studied the pattern and repetition of the pieces. She examined each character in the painting, and figured out the bride was the one with her orange hair out, and in black. Black clothing dye, as our resident textiles expert Lucy Garnett points out, would have been very expensive at that time, so appropriate for …
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Doorzien
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Carlos San Millan
Doorzien – a Dutch word translated as “to see through.” In dutch art, doorzien referred to a painting that showed a view from one room into another, making the picture especially beautiful.
Nicholas Maes, 1657 (Danish)
Pieter de Hooch, 1660 (Dutch)
Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1900 (Danish)
Carlos San Millan, current (Ecuadorian)
Edward Hopper, 1932 (American)
Hey, would one of you mind opening the door please?
Thank you for doorzien, Suzanne Walker!
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