#artist is otto marseus van schrieck-

[diioonysus]

insects in art: butterflies

[lightthereis]

Serpent and Butterflies in the Woods (detail) - Otto Marseus van Schrieck

[classicalcanvas]

Title: Still Life with Thistle

Artist: Otto Marseus van Schrieck

Date: 1662

Style: Baroque

Genre: Flower Painting

[visualpoett]

Snakes and Butterflies (1670)

Artist: Otto Marseus van Schrieck

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Snake with a Butterfly.

Artists: Johannes Teyler (after Otto Marseus van Schrieck)

Date: after 1688

Culture: Dutch

Medium: Etching and engraving printed in colored ink.

[transientpetersen]

Nature in its self-similarity across scales recreates a humble Yggdrasil. The artist translates Ratatoskr the messenger to a snail to preserve the appropriate pacing (and general munching nature?) and ensures there is room for  Níðhöggr at the roots and a buttefly/eagle at the top. The addition of the flower in bloom is suggestive of day and light without the awkwardness of needing to place the piece in part sun/part shade.

The Eddas would have been around in 1670 and I wonder if Marseus van Schrieck would feel the connection appropriate.

[huariqueje]

Woodland with blue bindweed and a path -  Otto Marseus van Schrieck ,1660

Dutch, 1613-1678

Oil on canvas, 53.7 x 68 cm.    21.1 x 26.7 in.

[the-evil-clergyman]

Still-Life with Insects and Amphibians by Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1662)

[psikonauti]

(Follower of) Otto Marseus van Schrieck 

Still-life with flowers and plants in a landscape with toads and moths

[flyse]

A Forest Floor with a Thistle, a Snake, a Lizard and Butterflies, Otto Marseus van Schrieck (Dutch, 1619–1678), 1635–1678

Oil on canvas

[petrodragonicapocalypse]

Greetings Queen fans that still follow me in the year of our lord 2021

i wrote a song with a similar vibe to The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke, but based on the fantastic paintings by a 17th century Dutch artist called Otto Marseus Van Schrieck.

here's the song (which bears his sexy, sexy name) if anyone's interested:

all vocals and instruments (except the drums, which are MIDI, and the birds, which are birds) are played by me, recorded on my phone and multitracked in Bandlab (pls ignore the very bad audio quality lmao)

[diioonysus]

animals in art: snakes

[demelza-kingston-hnd1d]

I really struggled to find any product photographs that I felt inspired by so turned instead to the painters of the Dutch Golden Age, in particular Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) and one of her influences Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1613-1678). The paintings shown above are clearly organised compositions but set in a woodland location rather than the more common still life of flowers in a vase in an indoor location.  I am very much inspired by the use of lighting in these examples and the way that the artists find beauty in the darkness of the woods.

The first two paintings by Ruysch shown here are similar compositions and both feature tree trunks and stone which is particularly relevant to my idea to use a chunk of quartz as my object in my triptych. Here, the stone is positioned so as to be lit from the side, which reveals its shape and textures.

[classicalcanvas]

Title: Vase of Flowers with Butterflies

Artist: Otto Marseus van Schrieck

Date: 1669

Style: Baroque

Genre: Flower Painting

[visualpoett]

The snake at the bird's nest / Opium poppy with bird's nest, snake, butterflies and a least weasel

Artist: Otto Marseus van Schrieck

[leelewishnd2c]

Something Told

Research (3) 

Rachel Ruysch

1664-1750

Rachel Ruysch is a Dutch painter, born in The Hague. Ruysch’s Father was a Botanist, physician and anatomist, which most likely what inspired Ruysch’s very botanical subject matter in addition to the style which she had pioneered. Ruysch became the first female artist in the artist society, present in The Hague, working there from 1701-1708. Further, Ruysch went on to become court painter for the Elector Palatine, Johan Willem in Düsseldorf.

Ruysch’s inspiration (as per 1680) was a painter named Otto Marseus Van Schrieck, who painted dark fauna and flora with various wildlife detail. When looking at work of both knowing this, it is blatant how much Ruysch was inspired by this man. 

This is the painting by Van Schriek 

And this is the painting by Ruysch, it is very similar in terms of lighting which both seem to adopt a low key approach. Ruysch’s work seems far more crisp in detail, less of an almost pastel tone yet you can see from the layout and shape to the lighting where the inspirations have come from. 

Analysis

I’ve selected these two paintings of Ruysch’s due to the parallels between her and Van Shriek’s work, low key lighting, both flora and fauna with various prompts from the code which is often in still life, dutch especially.  Most notably however, is the addition of the insects, which seems to be a heavy lift from Van Shrieks work, almost a nod to it. In addition to placing it in a nature scene, in the case of the second image. 

It can be assumed that because Ruysch was part of the Dutch movement in still life, that there is a code of sorts when observing elements within the composition. Firstly, in the first image there is both a bee and a butterfly, the former has been known to represent that which is industrious or to represent our struggles against destiny. Further there is also a butterfly present, in both of the images, this is usually representative of the resurrection of christ and there is also further some ants on the white flower which I’d missed initially. This also represents hard work similarly to the bees, whether this is all code or just simply a nod to van Shrieks work I’m unsure but I adore the aesthetics of each, there is a softer quality of light unlike Caravaggio’s work. 

Sources:

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/rachel-ruysch

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/old-masters/otto-marseus-van-schrieck-still-life-with-flowers

https://www.toledomuseum.org/about/news/mar-4-art-minute-rachel-ruysch-flower-still-life