To Honor Old Masters - Landscape as a Mirror of Human Emotions by Jacob van Ruisdael

Jacob van Ruisdael ( 1629 – 1682 ) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is considered to be the leading master of landscape painting in the Netherlands. He managed to turn landscape painting into a mirror of human emotions. The manner of painting with small strokes characterizes the variety of forms seen in the landscape motif and at the same time their emotional experience, figurative perception. The movement of each motive is composed of a broad, powerful process of interconnection and interaction of the elemental forces of nature and all its creations on earth. Ruisdael loved to paint forest thickets, swamps, waterfalls - places where people are just a passer-by, little Dutch cities or villages, lost in the spatial distance of the plains under the huge, triumphantly domineering sky.

'' Woodland Vistas '' , oil painting on canvas , 67 x 53.7 cm , Museum of Fine Arts Boston Image Source

'' The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede '' , oil painting on canvas , 83 × 101 cm , Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Image Source

'' Landscape with a mill-run and ruins '' , oil painting on canvas , Art Gallery of South Australia Image Source

'' A Cornfield with the Zuiderzee in the background '' , oil painting on canvas , Museum Bojimans Van Beuningen , Image Source

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