I was so moved by the myriad imagery of our chapter studies this week, and many of the artists and designers I had familiarity with, but the one which stood out to me most was the small seeming vignette of the Three Brides by Jan Toorop, a dutch artist involved with the Art Nouveau. I was unaware of his work or history , so I sought more information, I found little yet quite a few more of his enchanting indescribable works of which I share here. These periods of graphic history and the requisite arts which accompanied the periods are the springboard dreams in my estimation and a well of beauty and ideas to farm from for future work.
FATALISME 1893 / Jan Toorop
Jan Toorop was born in Java in 1858. In 1872 he moved with his family to the Netherlands, and began his studies in Delft as well as Amsterdam. In 1880 he became a student at the prestigious Rijksacademie in Amsterdam.
After his studies he lived in Brussels Belgium where he became a member of the Les XXX, a group of artists. who were inspired by James Ensor. He at the time was primarily an expressionist painter , yet investigated impressionism as well as realism in his many works.
ANARCHIE 1894 / Jan Toorop
He married in 1886, and english woman Annie Hall, and moved between England, Belgium and the Netherland where he developed his personal style for which he became recognized, Symbolist in nature it had dynamic , unpredictable lines based in javanese motifs, with willowy figures and curvilinear designs.
He became part of the Art Nouveau movement in his stylistic leanings there after, creating religious works, book illustrations, grapic designs and stained glass windows.
VROUW ANN DE RAND VAN EEN MEER / Jan Toorop
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