Rachel Ruysch, Fruit and Insects

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Rachel Ruysch, Fruit and Insects발음듣기

(jazzy piano music) Steven: We're in Uffizi, and we're looking at a still life painting by a Dutch artist whose name is Rachel Ruysch.발음듣기

Beth: Ruysch was incredibly successful during her very long career.발음듣기

She painted from a time she was in her teens until she was in her 80s.발음듣기

Steven: More then 60 years.발음듣기

And you can see why her paintings were so widely popular.발음듣기

In fact, her paintings regularly sold for double what Rembrandt's paintings sold for.발음듣기

Beth: In Holland, artists specialized in certain types of paintings, artists like Rembrandt painted portraits, others, like Rachel Ruysch painted still life paintings, others like Ruisdael painted landscapes.발음듣기

They were painting for a widening merchant class in 17th century Holland.발음듣기

Steven: She specialized in flowers, but this particular painting is fruit and insects.발음듣기

Beth: And it seems to be about the Autumn, the subject of the harvest, fruits and vegetables that are harvested in the Autumn.발음듣기

Corn, we have squash. Steven: Chestnuts and grapes, but also wheat and this reminds us that still lifes were often not only simple representations of items that might be put on the table, but would have symbolic value.발음듣기

Beth: Any Christian looking at this painting in the 17th century would have seen the wheat and the grapes and thought of the Eucharist, of the sacrament of communion of the body and blood of Christ.발음듣기

Steven: The bread and wine.발음듣기

Beth: And it's also important to realize that this is not just a scene that she would have assembled on the table and painted.발음듣기

This is likely a composite of studies of grapes, studies of peaches, studies of plums, studies of a nest with eggs in it, studies of a butterfly, that are then combined imaginatively into this composition.발음듣기

Steven: Into a microcosm.발음듣기

This was a time in the late 17th and early 18th century, when the microscope was perfected and we were looking into worlds beyond what we have known before.발음듣기

Beth: And the scientific interest into categorizing the natural world and looking closely at it and in fact a great example of this is Rachel's own father, Frederick Ruysch.발음듣기

Steven: He was one of the most famous scientists of his days, specialized in botany and the study of anatomy, especially human anatomy.발음듣기

Beth: And he was an artist, he had a cabinet of curiosities, a collection of natural wonders, that he published and illustrated himself.발음듣기

Steven: Rachel's mother on the other hand was the daughter of one of the most famous architects in the Netherlands at this time.발음듣기

A perfect preparation for a woman who would spend her long life looking at infinitely small details of the natural world.발음듣기

Beth: And painting these things as though as if they were scientific specimens.발음듣기

Steven: But bringing them together in beautiful compositions.발음듣기

Beth: What I notice are the color harmonies, so we have these reds and greens, red and green are complimentary colors, the green grapes on one side, the red on the other.발음듣기

Balanced by the red plums on the other side of the composition.발음듣기

Steven: You can see them also within individual elements, look for instance at the bunch of grapes on the right side, those red-purple grapes, except they have a little bit of a dust powder blue and we see the same thing in the plum on the extreme left.발음듣기

Beth: The butterfly in the foreground, maybe it's a moth, that's just landing is a good reminder that Rachel's father, Frederick collected specimens like butterflies and preserved them and in fact was a master at preserving parts of human anatomy and animal insect species and had such a famous collection that he sold it to Peter the Great, the Tzar of Russia.발음듣기

Steven: I love that butterfly, it looks as it is just about to land, but perhaps having second thoughts because there is a salamander or a small lizard.발음듣기

Beth: That idea that you mentioned before, of a world of its own.발음듣기

Steven: This is a painting that is about slow, careful discovery and this is an artist whose mastery rewards the patient observer. (jazzy piano music)발음듣기

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