Country folk and city business: a print series by Jan van de Velde

• Autores: Elizabeth Alice Honig
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 78, Nº 3, 1996, págs. 511-526
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A series of prints by Jan van de Velde portrays a countryside market combined with scenes of bourgeois leisure. Numerous details of these superficially realistic images defy conventions of both real behavior and its pictorial representation. These incongruities are resolved through a reference to G. A. Bredero's Spanish Brabanter, a play concerned with the falsity of appearances and the willingness of people to be deceived. The prints work to establish a separation between the new locale of the suburban park as a place of social deceptions, and the urban market where “truth” is guaranteed in the context of economic provisioning.