Contents: The Market Paintings of Pieter Aertsen and Joachim Beuckelaer: Reflexy-Const, Recognition and the Pursuit of the “Real” Julia Trojanowski Elevating Architecture: Examining the Impact of Flying Buttresses and Other Innovative Strategies in High Gothic Cathedral Design Austin Dwight Ruddle The Innovative Downtrodden: The Importance of Primitivism in Ukrainian Modernist Art Katrin Zavgorodny
Katrin Zavgorodny-Freedman Ukrainian modernist painting often gets lumped in with the larger Russian modernist and avant-garde painting of the time. While being acknowledged as unique to the Western modernists, the Eastern European modernist and avant-garde narrative requires more nuance to better appreciate the innovations of nations within the larger category. The unique characteristic of inwardly-focused […]
Austin Ruddle The integration and evolution of the flying buttress into the architecture of high gothic cathedrals was the defining paradigmatic entity that shaped structural organization, and lead to the establishment of the period’s aesthetic typological identity. Innovative architectural elements such as these allowed the iconic structures of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to soar […]
Julia Trojanowski Pieter Aertsen’s (1508-1575) The Market Woman with Vegetable Stall (fig. 1) features a gleaming, pulsing heap of vegetables that appears to spill out into the viewer’s space.[1] The seller opens her arms and invites us to behold nature’s bounty: we cannot help but think of the taste, texture and smell in addition to […]
Brittany Myburgh In recent years, vases depicting women working with wool have received increased attention. Images of textile production have been linked to the role of women in the oikos, and textile production has been defined as both an economic activity and one that reinforces the ideal of woman as mother and homemaker. This paper […]