The work is one of a series of paintings of women in an interior, in which the model is Brusselmans’ wife Marie-Léonie. The couple lived in abject poverty and the artist was often weighed down by the misery of everyday life. However, in paintings like this he expressed not only his bitterness at social injustice but also his admiration for his wife’s devotion. From the 1920s onwards Jean Brusselmans’ work was dominated by a rigid and classical composition of areas of colour with dark outlines. Increasingly, he reduced what he saw to large clear basic shapes. The outlines emphasises the rigid structuring of reality.
| Artist |
Jean Brusselmans
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| Title | The Attic II |
| Date | ca. 1939 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1999-N |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1999-N |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4354/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
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300124520 interior views AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
22C
light
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22C1 natural light Iconclass 22C8 shadow Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA2321 leaning forward - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 41A255 attic, loft Iconclass 41A33 window Iconclass 41A711 table Iconclass 41A771 container of metal: bucket, can, canister, drum, tin, etc. Iconclass 41A7751 container made of plant material other than wood: basket Iconclass 41C326 jar, jug (used as drinking-vessel) Iconclass 41C341 dish, plate, saucer Iconclass 61BB2(MARIE-LÉONIE BRUSSELMANS-FRISCH) historical person (MARIE-LÉONIE BRUSSELMANS-FRISCH) - BB - woman Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Expressionist (style)
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Modernist AAT |
| Jean Brusselmans : Beschrijvende catalogus / Gita Brys-Schatan, Robert L. Delevoy. - Brussel : Laconti, 1972 (nr. 445) |
| Jean Brusselmans : Tekeningen en schilderijen uit de verzameling (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone kunsten, 1.7 - 3.9.2000) / Norbert De Dauw. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2000 ((ill. p. 20)) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 267 (ill. 189)) |
| Jean Brusselmans (tentoonstelling Oostende, Kunstmuseum aan zee, 09.04.2011 - 04.09.2011) / Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Phillip Van den Bossche. - Oostende : Mu.ZEE, 2013 |
| Herinneringen : veertig Vlamingen en hun geliefkoosd kunstwerk ; met foto's van Elisabeth Broekaert, Michiel Hendrickx, Jacques Sonck, Maarten Vanden Abeele. - Antwerpen : Openbaar kunstbezit in Vlaanderen, 2003 (p. 30-31 (ill.)) |
| Biënnale van de schilderkunst : het genot van het kijken (tentoonstelling Deurle, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens ; Machelen-Zulte, Roger Raveelmuseum, 29.06.2008 - 21.09.2008) / Janus Boudewijns, Piet Coessens, Joost Declercq. - Deurle (Sint-Martens-Latem) : Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, 2008 ; Machelen-aan-de-Leie : Roger Raveelmuseum, 2008 |
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