Jacob van Ruisdael
The
Forest Stream
ca.1660
oil on canvas
99,7 x 129,2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
The
old master that came into my life in recent years is definitely Jacob van
Ruisdael. Three years ago, I relocated from the city of Enschede to a small
village near the border. There, I found a studio situated on a farm in the
middle of rural Twente. All at once, I was confronted with the beauty of this
landscape. Everywhere around me, I perceived the paintings of the old Dutch
masters and of Jacob van Ruisdael in particular, who also worked for some time
right across the border in the German town of Bad Bentheim. I became fascinated
by the Romanticism in his landscapes, an idea that was employed in order to
emphasize melancholy or Weltschmerz. The fact that Ruisdael composed his
paintings according to his own taste, appealed to me and led me to reinterpreting
his landscapes.
Nour-Eddine Jarram, 2016
Nour-Eddine Jarram (MA/NL)
No title (after Ruisdael)
2014
pastel on paper
103 x 150 cm
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