Common_Links_Among_Molenear_Paintings

Common Links Among Molenear Paintings During the height of the Renaissance creativity flourished. Minds were at work in all fields coming up with new ideas and new artistic expression. Artists captured new feelings and forms never expressed before. Among those artists, was the Dutch genre and portrait painter, Jan Miense Molenaer. Born in Haarlem in 1610, Molenaer was raised within humanist ideals. He learned all about the new wave of thinking and was shown all the art of Amsterdam. By 1629, he himself was at large in the painting world. He actively painted until a few months before his death in 1668, when he became gravely ill. All of his paintings appear to be very different, but upon a closer observation many similarities may be viewed. All of the paintings use realism to illustrate the daily lifestyle of the artists society and to bring a deeper meaning to the moral imperative. In “The Dentist,” Molenaer expresses an average dental visit of a person in the 17th century. The realistic view helps to express the immorality of the dentist and the realization of him as an unscrupulous person. In “The Procuress,” Molenaer expresses the reality of woman being sold as prostitutes. This realistic outlook helps to condemn molenaer, painting, paintings, dentist, allegory, money, light, colors, woman, procuress, person, people, expresses, shows, man, dark, concealed, viewer, view, very, vanity, girl, expressed, express, bright, young, time, story, one, new, moral, meaning, hope, everyday, even, deeper