Een bijna abstract schilderij van een kaal landschap waarin het land bestaat uit bruine, blauwe en rode tinten. Witte palen doorbreken dit landschap. In de verte zijn bomen te zien. De lucht is hard blauw en uiteengerafelde wolkenpartijen.

Nog een nieuw schilderij van mijn grootvader Joub Wiertz kunnen fotograferen | I was able to photograph another new painting by my grandfather Joub #Wiertz.
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𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘇 (𝟭𝟴𝟬𝟲–𝟲𝟱)
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘂𝘀
Bram van Oostveldt, Stijn Bussels, Caroline Van Eck (eds)

𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦

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Nog een nieuw schilderij van mijn grootvader Joub Wiertz kunnen fotograferen | I was able to photograph another new painting by my grandfather Joub #Wiertz.
#art #impressionism #artoftheday #artcollectible #collector #ebay #artauction #oil #color #colour #painting #oilpainting #joubwiertz #landscape

Nog een nieuw schilderij van mijn grootvader Joub Wiertz kunnen fotograferen | I was able to photograph another new painting by my grandfather Joub #Wiertz.
#art #impressionism #artoftheday #artcollectible #collector #ebay #artauction #oil #color #colour #painting #oilpainting #joubwiertz #landscape

Gisteren weer nieuwe schilderijen ontdekt van mijn grootvader Joub Wiertz | Yesterday, I discovered some new paintings by my grandfather Joub #Wiertz.
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The Studio of Giants: Inside the Wiertz Museum in Brussels - ChannelDraw Exploring the legacy of Antoine Wiertz, the most controversial and colossal figure in 19th-century Belgian art.

The Studio of Giants: Inside the Wiertz Museum in Brussels.
Step into the world of Antoine Wiertz—painter, dreamer, radical. Colossal canvases, antiwar visions, and the tragic price of artistic obsession.
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Urban Revolutionaries: 14 Epidemic Plague ravaged cities across Europe and much of the world, cholera came from contaminated water supplies, then there were influenza and tuberculosis.

Painting Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame The tragic story of Quasimodo, hunchback bell-ringer of the cathedral, and Esmeralda, a beautiful young dancer, and her pet goat Djali.

A mother killing and cooking her own child due to hunger. She's holding a bloody knife and the body of her child. One of the child's legs is sticking out of a pot over the fire. Famine, Madness, Crime by Antoine Wiertz (1853)

Faim, folie et crime (1853) or Famine, Madness, Crime by Antoine Wiertz.

It depicts a mother, driven mad by hunger, killing and cooking her own child.

What are your thoughts on this dark painting?

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Reading Visual Art: 192 Curtains as a device Curtains around 4-poster beds, revealing hidden opinions, framing a cameo landscape, showing time and place, and in a trompe l'oeil still life.