Ekphrases

This painting focuses on a mother and a daughter in a room. The doorway to

the inside of the room is centered along the vertical axis of the painting. The

medium is oil on canvas and was created in 1658/1660. It was painted by a

Dutch artist. There are uses of primary and secondary colors. Such as a red

tablecloth on a brown table with dark color vase sitting on top. The chairs are

dark brown with yellow diamonds. The walls are gray and tan. The mother is

wearing a red shirt with a dark color skirt and a white bonnet. The young girl is

wearing a dress that is brown at the top and yellow at the bottom. The floor is a

reddish-orange brick color in a square formation. The young girl is standing in

the doorway holding the door handle and is glancing at her mother(I assume)

while smiling. The mother is folding a greenish-yellow cloth and smiling back

at her daughter. Above the doorway there is a small painting, with a brown

frame and the picture is blurred. If you look through the doorway you can see

another door leading outside and a window to the left of that outside door.

That door has two parts(top and bottom opens separately)and is open allowing

sunshine into the house along with the light coming through the windows. The

balance of this painting is asymmetrical; the left side is fuller than the right.

The mother is standing on the left side and little girl is slightly to the right of

the vertical axis. The sides are brought together by the light shining in from the

right and through the doorway. The theme of the painting is of human

experience and is representational; descriptive of a work of art that depicts

forms in the natural world.


The artist's style is from the Dutch genre; French meaning scenes showing

people at work, play, or rest. He popularized the style of painting. Some would

also describe his style as cinematic people.


Good luck to whom ever chooses this.