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Name: Jan van Eyck Date and place of birth: 1390 · Maaseik, Netherlands Burgundy Date and place of death: July 9, 1441 · Bruges, Netherlands Burgundy Discipline: Painting Biographical information about the artist: His name was Jan van Eyck. He was birth in 1390 in Netherlands Burgundy and his discipline was painting, he was once of the most popular in Northern Europe, he with his brother changed the style from the gothic to the flamenco.

Let’s talk about art!

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It´s an attractive space that looks like an apartment located in Brujas, this have red sofa and red details but is based in very simple things, the flour of wood with a window in the left of the grew wall

There were a combination of warm and cold colours but the cold ones predominated because the shadows that made the red like brown

Direct and disperse light, reflecting it off various surfaces to create a description of space within the room.

Represented in a little stance, there are the couple very seriously and so peaceful, she has a very clean and long dress with different formats, also they look that there are going to be a family, that there are going to live in a very attractive place with a dog.

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This talk about the marry day of the Arnolfini couple with this they represented the starts of a family

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Works name: The Arnolfini couple or marry Date: 1439 Location: National Gallery in London. Medium: An oil paint cin canvas

Analising a Painting

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Works name: Ghent Alterpiece Date: 1431-1443 Location: St Bravo Basilica Medium: Polyptych of twelve panels in oil

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An alterpice that was done in St Basilica

The cold colors dominated the image you can see it in any place but in the persons images there are combined cold and warm colours one example the dreses

Lighting is used to great effect to create the impression of depth; Van Eyck handles the fall light and casting of shadow to make the viewer feel as if the pictorial space is influenced .

The panels are organised in two vertical Lines, each with double sets of foldable wings containing inner and outer panel paintings

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Deësis arrangement of God, is next to the the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist. They are colocated in the next panels by angels playing music and, on the far outermost panels, the figures of Adam and Eve, them the lower panels were for the cleargy and sinners.

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Works name: Portaid of Margarita Van Eyck Date: 1431-1434 Location: Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium Medium:Oil painting on wood

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An retrat about his face with an atmospheric prespective.

There were a combination of warm and cold colours, the background black and the retract warm colours like red and white, making their face more visible

Use a direct contrast between the black and warm colors to iluminated to Margarita

Represented symbolizes the connection between nature and human figure and reflects in the renaissance

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Drawing and colours

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This was to represent their sisters face like a powerful one and became to be a sinbol of nature and humanist.

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Analising a Painting

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