Like so many artists of his generation, in the 1920-1930 period Jean Brusselmans sought a synthesis between simple forms based on Cubism and a more lyrical expressionist approach. The artist found his inspiration for the 1928 work Farmers in the labour of his fellow-villagers in Dilbeek, which lies in the hilly landscape of Pajottenland near Brussels. The figures in the painting have no distinguishing features and are only part of the geometric composition. The numerous preliminary sketches, twenty of which the museum has in its possession, show how rationally Brusselmans constructed his compositions and gave shape to the landscape, the figures and the objects in a design of triangles, diagonals and grids.
| Artist |
Jean Brusselmans
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| Title | Farmers |
| Date | 1928 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom right: Jean / Brusselmans. / 1928. |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1999-Q |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1999-Q |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/118/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
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300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25G3
trees
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26A clouds Iconclass 31A231 standing figure Iconclass 31AA231 standing figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D12 youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass 31D120 Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 41A771 container of metal: bucket, can, canister, drum, tin, etc. Iconclass 41A7751 container made of plant material other than wood: basket Iconclass 46A14 farmers Iconclass 46A222 rural life Iconclass 46AA14 farmers - AA - female farmer, farmer's wife Iconclass 46C122 wheelbarrow Iconclass 61E(DILBEEK) names of cities and villages (DILBEEK) 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. 245) |
| 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.18) |
| 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. 184)) |
| D'Ensor à Magritte dans les collections du Musée de Gand (exposition Lodève, Musée de Lodève-Hôtel du Cardinal de Fleury, 19 novembre 2004 - 27 février 2005) / Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Helke Lauwaert, Bruno Fornari. - Lodève : Musée de Lodève, 2004 ; Milano : Mazzotta, 2004 (p. 248-250, cat. 69) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 85 (ill.)) |
| Jean Brusselmans (tentoonstelling Oostende, Kunstmuseum aan zee, 09.04.2011 - 04.09.2011) / Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Phillip Van den Bossche. - Oostende : Mu.ZEE, 2013 |
| Belgische schone : Ensor tot Magritte ; Hoogtepunten uit de verzameling van het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Laren, Singer Laren, 16.06 - 30.08.2015) / Johan De Smet, Jan Rudolph De Lorm. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2015 ; Laren : Singer Laren, 2015 ; Heule : Uitgeverij Snoeck, 2015 (cat. 55 (ill. p. 77)) |
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