38 - Dutch school of the 20th century.

Dutch school of the 20th century. "Tavern scene". Oil on táblex. Measurements: 67 x 54 cm; 85 x 73 cm (with frame). In this painting there are clear echoes of the Dutch school of the Baroque period, a key influence among the painters of the nineteenth and twentieth century both in Holland and in other European countries. It is a popular scene, related to the genre painting of the XVII century and, more specifically, to that of taverns. In it we see a group of men gathered at a table playing dice with mugs of beer and smoking a pipe. All of them are dressed in 17th century clothes, clearly detailed, as well as the faces of the characters created based on the tradition of baroque naturalism, bringing realism and narrative to the scene. At his swords, a typical window of Dutch painting lets you see the outside and provides depth to the scene, while it becomes the illuminating focus of the interior of the tavern. A luminous resource typical of the interior scenes so characteristic of Dutch Baroque painting. The painting of taverns was during the 17th century the vindication of the popular, and this idea is taken up again from the end of the 19th century, after the appearance of realism and the revaluation of the costumbrista themes. The nineteenth-century painters frequently drank from the sources of the past, within the context of historicism, but always being the baroque past itself one of the most important sources.