Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1739 - Soap Bubbles - fine art print

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Additional information from the museum's website (© - by Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin's work gained public attention just as a reaction to the elaborate style of rococo art was setting in. He was admitted to the French Royal Academy as a still-life painter in 1728, a rare honor, as still life was then considered far less valid than paintings of historical, mythological, or courtly subjects. Even though his work reflected the ordinary images, decorum, and morality of the bourgeois life from which he came, Chardin's talent was recognized in artistic and aristocratic circles. Chardin began to paint genre subjects in the late 1730s, evoking through his observation of everyday life a contemplative atmosphere that in France had largely remained the domain of religious painting. In some ways his compositions heralded the values of the art of the Enlightenment, with its emphasis on rational content, naturalistic imagery, and qualities of truth and directness in subject matter. Soap Bubbles is carefully composed in the simplest of geometries, with the window forming a rectangular space to frame the pyramidal grouping of the youth and the boy transfixed by the spherical bubble; these shapes are reinforced by the masonry, angles of the youth's arms, and the pair of heads. Chardin renders surfaces carefully but without distracting detail. A sense of timeless contemplation transforms the ephemeral pastime of the pair into a compelling allegory about the transitory nature of life. This is far from being a scene of carefree, youthful abandon.

Background information on the more than 280 years old painting

In 1739 the painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin made the artwork. The original measures the size: 23 5/8 × 28 3/4 in (60,01 × 73,03 cm) and was painted with the technique oil on canvas. This artpiece is included in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collection in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. We are pleased to mention that the artpiece, which is part of the public domain is supplied with courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (www.lacma.org).The creditline of the artwork is the following: . Furthermore, alignment is in landscape format and has a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was a painter from France, whose style was primarily Baroque. The Baroque artist was born in the year 1699 in Paris and died at the age of 80 in the year 1779 in Paris.

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