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Block-B ; Cameron G.

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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The inventor of oil-paints,

Van Eyck had a certain style that renders him, in my own opinion, not nearly as we'll done as da Vinci.
Women typically had very round heads, and men may have looked like manly women.
Eyck had a bit of a perception on depth, but it is rather limited, and not too detailed.
Eyck had a strongpoint with painting portraits, because he could base the art off of a real person, rather than his own imagination.
Eyck was also very talented in drawing ugly babies and Popes with seventy chins.

Van Eyck may have been a religious man, yet not much is known about his beliefs.
He has painted a Cardinal of the holy Church, and ha painted many other paintings relating to religion in some way.
He was not afraid of painting the imperfections on those he was painting, an example was of how he painted Isabella of Portugal, as she was said to be a very unattractive princess.
Van Eyck was also very serious about the way he painted, one of his quotes being; "A reconstruction rather than a mere representation."

Jan van Eyck was born in approximately 1380-1395 AD, July in Maaseik, Byzantine.
Van Eyck died far from his birthplace, in 1441, Jan van Eyck died in the Netherlands, which,at this time, was under Byzantine's control.
The map in the background is of the Netherlands, showing a bit of what it's landforms are.

Van Eyck has two rather famous works of art, one being "Crucifixion; The Last Judgement," the other being "The Man with the Red Turban," which is believed to be a self-portrait.
From 1425 to 1441, van Eyck was under the employment of Philip the Good, the duke of Burgundy.
The duke seemingly had a habit of sending van Eyck on diplomatic missions, as seen in Eyck's coat-of-arms.
Though his art is not very well-known, he was still a revolutionary artist for his time.

Tangible piece of luminous matter, they confront us with a reconstruction rather than a mere representation of the visible world.
"A reconstruction rather than a mere representation" is Jan van Eyck's well-known quote, the elongated version is seen above.

Van Eyck at first seems to be someone originally uninterested in humanism, but he actually did paint a painting so he could understand the human form.
This painting is too inappropriate to paste as a background, it is of a man and a woman, without clothing, standing up and facing one another.
The painting is highly detailed to ridiculous levels, and it may have been a reference painting if he needed to draw a "Regular Joe/Jane."
(The man in the background is the man in the painting of the man and woman.)
Van Eyck clearly had care for the human figure, and human life, if he put this much effort into a random painting.

Van Eyck left behind a grand story for his paintings to tell.
From the people he painted to the architecture he included with them, van Eyck was an unusual man for his time.
So little is known about Eyck, but he did start something that changed the world - Oil paints.
Without van Eyck, paintings would be dull and colourless, and without Eyck, many of Philip the Good's diplomatic missions would have never worked.
Eyck was purely a Renaissance man, earning him the title of one of the most famous artists in history.