The 17th century Dutch Golden Age is the peak period of traditional life oil painting art, and Dutch life oil painting establishes the most classic aesthetic paradigm and creative standard of life art. At that time, Dutch commerce was prosperous, civilian culture was booming, and the public’s aesthetic demand turned from religious divinity and royal grandeur to ordinary life beauty. A large number of civilian painters devoted themselves to life theme creation, forming a powerful life painting school.
In terms of artistic language, Dutch life oil painting is rigorous and delicate, with stable composition, soft light and shadow, harmonious tone and vivid and real character dynamics. Painters are good at capturing the subtle emotional changes and life details in daily life, making the trivial life scenes full of warm life atmosphere and vivid vitality. The representative works of Dutch life painters fully show the prosperous appearance of civilian life in the 17th century, and establish the core connotation of life oil painting art: art originates from life and serves life.
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