van Eyck

Essentially crowd scenes arranged in a narrow vertical format, both are wonderfully animated examples of van Eyck's meticulous workmanship and eye for minute detail.

Finding Parallels in Paintings Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

Suzzan Blac: My main influences are artists such as [Hans] Holbein, [Jan] van Eyck, Caravaggio and [Francis] Bacon.

Interview with Artist Suzzan Blac, the Goddess of Gore 2010

By contrast, the painted images of the Virgin Mary are imbued by van Eyck and Raphael with an “eternal love” and a “soulfulness” that Greek statues can never match (PKÄ, 142, 184).

Hegel's Aesthetics Houlgate, Stephen 2009

This is a roundabout way of saying that, while van Eyck thought highly of his abilities, and rightfully so, there was also a legitimate philosophy percolating that said that artists were godlike in their ability to create.

The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

What made van Eyck so great was his precision, and this was permitted by his use of oil paints.

The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

We can see this in another work by van Eyck, called The Ghent Altarpiece.

The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

So, although this 1434 van Eyck does not look like a Pollock, Pollock would not exist without van Eyck, and every artist who came between them.

The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

So, van Eyck is suggesting to us that he and God are not so dissimilar.

The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

Thanks to oil paints, and small brushes, and probably much squinting, van Eyck has painted every individual hair on this little dog, in an array of colors that cumulatively look highly naturalistic.

The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

They specified forty masterpieces including works by Raphael, da Vinci, van Eyck, and Rubens.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006