DOI issue:
Nr.1-2
DOI article:Brusewicz, Lech; Nason, Pieter [Ill.]: The paintings by Pieter Nason in polish collections
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18863#0025
10. Pieter Nason, Stil-life, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (photo of the Museum)
model's attitude breaks the stiff division line, also the frame not only confines both spheres
in one two-dimensional space, but also implies the existence of the third dimension. The lower
part of the frame is non-profiled and appears to be an integral element of the picture's piane,
thank to the window sili painted on it. Thus the frame introduces the third zone, that of a con-
ventional foreground closest to the on-looker.
The next zone — the middleground is one-dimensional, although the man's right hand moves
back the body and his left arm, emphasizing the position, en trois ąuarts. The relation to the
foreground is shown by the man's left hand fingers, painted directly on the frame; the landscape
presented in far distance is joined to the whole by the suggestive movement of the right hand,
conspicuously exposed. The portrayed is set between the spectator and the landscape; the
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model's attitude breaks the stiff division line, also the frame not only confines both spheres
in one two-dimensional space, but also implies the existence of the third dimension. The lower
part of the frame is non-profiled and appears to be an integral element of the picture's piane,
thank to the window sili painted on it. Thus the frame introduces the third zone, that of a con-
ventional foreground closest to the on-looker.
The next zone — the middleground is one-dimensional, although the man's right hand moves
back the body and his left arm, emphasizing the position, en trois ąuarts. The relation to the
foreground is shown by the man's left hand fingers, painted directly on the frame; the landscape
presented in far distance is joined to the whole by the suggestive movement of the right hand,
conspicuously exposed. The portrayed is set between the spectator and the landscape; the
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