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Heritage Teacher Testing Traditions International Educational System
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Susan Abdella MDA HA |
| For my thesis I am studying the works of Rachel Ruysch. Realism and attention to detail combined with a shared love of nature and florals with this artist have attracted me to study her work. I am combining different floral elements from several of this artist's work to create a different arrangement. The new composition that I am working on will reflect the flow and movement that this artist is known for as a dominating factor. I am staying true to an upper left light source that will retain the drama of a large floral composition. |
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Rachel Ruysch - Flower Vase and Fruit, 1685 Artist: Rachel Ruysch, born in The Hague, Amsterdam, in 1664, was one of the most recognized, successful, and proliferate women artists of the 17th and 18th century. At the age of 15 she began studying under Willem van Aelst, but soon developed her own style reflecting the late baroque era. After producing several outstanding paintings at the age of 18, she began to teach her sister Anna and her father Frederik Ruysch (a professor of botany and anatomy in Amsterdam). Her paintings exhibited a precise knowledge of botany and zoology, her realistic representation of flowers and nature in form, color, and texture, the fact that she was a working mother of 10, produced from 250 - 300 paintings, and was a sensational painter, help explain why she was referred to as the "Holland Art Prodigy. Rachel became a member of The Hagues' Painter's Guild in 1701; from 1708 to 1716 she was the court painter to Prince Johann Wilhelm of Bavaria. |
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