In 1657, Johannes Vermeer painted “The Milkmaid”. It is an oil on canvas painting and it on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Vermeer was a Dutch painter who liked to get his ideas from middle class life. He used a lot of monochrome shades of grey, browns, greys, and then he would apply primary colors, reds, blues, and yellows on top, to form a transparent looking painting. He used expensive pigments to illustrate the lighting in the painting, which then helped reflect the many colors he used for the background of each painting. “The Milkmaid” was a painting about what women did back in that time period. In the painting, it suggests that Vermeer’s maid is making bread porridge. It is made by using milk and bread.
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This painting symbolizes the domestic housewife, or maid back then. The warm colors make you feel at home, and relaxed. The footwarmer by the milkmaid suggests it might be fall or winter when the cold weather starts to come in. She can also be cold from being next to a window with a cracked hole in it. Making bread porridge was very common in the 17th hundreds, and it is made with stale bread and milk. The act of pouring milk out from the jug to the bowl, captivated the important part in baking. Back in the day milk was very important in daily life. Milk is a life nourishing liquid that every mammal needs, so the pouring of the milk represents feeding and nourishment. He outfit represents the everyday chores of a peasant women. Her skirt is tucked in, so it does not get dirty, and she has an apron covering her yellow top. During this time, artists started painting everyday life people instead of just painting nobles. Vermeer is illustrating what many of the women had the so back in this time, and still today with stay at home moms. The foot warmer by her represents no central heating since electricity did not come into play until the 1900’s. The amount of bread represents the countless hours that go into kneading the dough, letting it rise, and then baking it. The bare walls represents the simple lives that non noble citizens
In this painting, …show more content…
This painting symbolizes the domestic housewife, or maid back then. The warm colors make you feel at home, and relaxed. The footwarmer by the milkmaid suggests it might be fall or winter when the cold weather starts to come in. She can also be cold from being next to a window with a cracked hole in it. Making bread porridge was very common in the 17th hundreds, and it is made with stale bread and milk. The act of pouring milk out from the jug to the bowl, captivated the important part in baking. Back in the day milk was very important in daily life. Milk is a life nourishing liquid that every mammal needs, so the pouring of the milk represents feeding and nourishment. He outfit represents the everyday chores of a peasant women. Her skirt is tucked in, so it does not get dirty, and she has an apron covering her yellow top. During this time, artists started painting everyday life people instead of just painting nobles. Vermeer is illustrating what many of the women had the so back in this time, and still today with stay at home moms. The foot warmer by her represents no central heating since electricity did not come into play until the 1900’s. The amount of bread represents the countless hours that go into kneading the dough, letting it rise, and then baking it. The bare walls represents the simple lives that non noble citizens