Gerard Ter Borch A Musical Company
Formal Analysis A musical company
The painting A Musical Company, part of the leiden collection, painted in 1642 by Dutch painter Gerard ter Borch is now on display as part of the vermeer suite exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. The painting depicts a young woman playing the virginal accompanied by two men: the one on her left is plays a viol da gamba and the other plays a violin. Gerard ter Borch is widely known for his small scale paintings of everyday peasant life known as genre scenes.(insert citation). He frequently depicted small groups of musicians in which the relationships between the individuals remain ambiguous.
The painting is relatively small as it was made to be hung the houses of the merchant class. The lack of sheet music …show more content…
He used implied lines to direct the viewer's eyes around the artwork. The man playing the violin line of sight takes us to the woman in black and her line of sight points us to the man playing the viol. Borch also carefully manipulated gradations in values to create the appearance of natural light. He created the shadow of man playing the viol feet to show the direction of the light source. He created chiaroscuro on the viol de gamba to produce an illusion of space in the painting. This is particularly important because it helps emphasize the trio playing the instruments. He also used the light to create atmospheric perspective by fading out the the old woman in the background . Borch used neutral and low-intensity colors to create a low contrast painting. The viol player dress is a low saturated color and the bed in the background is a warm color. The low saturation of colors can also be used to infer the time is in the evening.The old woman in the background is seen struggling to carry the fire place. This gives us a sense of motion of the painting. In the painting, the people are symmetrical to their instrument which gives us Balance. (finishbtime and motion, unity and
The painting A Musical Company, part of the leiden collection, painted in 1642 by Dutch painter Gerard ter Borch is now on display as part of the vermeer suite exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. The painting depicts a young woman playing the virginal accompanied by two men: the one on her left is plays a viol da gamba and the other plays a violin. Gerard ter Borch is widely known for his small scale paintings of everyday peasant life known as genre scenes.(insert citation). He frequently depicted small groups of musicians in which the relationships between the individuals remain ambiguous.
The painting is relatively small as it was made to be hung the houses of the merchant class. The lack of sheet music …show more content…
He used implied lines to direct the viewer's eyes around the artwork. The man playing the violin line of sight takes us to the woman in black and her line of sight points us to the man playing the viol. Borch also carefully manipulated gradations in values to create the appearance of natural light. He created the shadow of man playing the viol feet to show the direction of the light source. He created chiaroscuro on the viol de gamba to produce an illusion of space in the painting. This is particularly important because it helps emphasize the trio playing the instruments. He also used the light to create atmospheric perspective by fading out the the old woman in the background . Borch used neutral and low-intensity colors to create a low contrast painting. The viol player dress is a low saturated color and the bed in the background is a warm color. The low saturation of colors can also be used to infer the time is in the evening.The old woman in the background is seen struggling to carry the fire place. This gives us a sense of motion of the painting. In the painting, the people are symmetrical to their instrument which gives us Balance. (finishbtime and motion, unity and