George Hitchcock's Tulip Culture

The Dutch art was always known as the quiet and mysterious paintings that convey deep and meaningful messages. Dutch arts were famously known of the paintings of flowers. Especially tulip paintings were notoriously known during the seventeenth century of the Dutch Republic. One of George Hitchcock’s painting Tulip Culture (1889) was a gift of Diane B. Wilsey for in the honor of the tenth anniversary of the new De Young Museum. Tulip Culture was shown in the De Young Museum. Tulip Culture is an amazing oil painting inspired by the surroundings lives around George Hitchcock. George Hitchcock is an American painter living from the year of 1850 to 1913. He settled in Holland near Egmond aan Zee during 1833. He had created a series of artwork
For example, a well organized and well maintained house would not be well organized and well maintained without a hard working woman in the house.What drawn viewers’ attention most is Tulip Culture's endless seas of flowers. Noticed that the use of colors in this painting depicts a calm, quiet and smooth characteristics. An ordinary woman stands out the most in the endless seas of flowers, but as I look through those beautiful flowers, the woman disappeared from my eye view because my attention were only capturing those beautiful flowers. In the painting, woman is standing at the left hand side, which is not too recognizable to viewers, but the seas of flowers were obviously amazing and beautiful. To analyze the possible message convey in the painting may be, all of our attention is drawn to the beautiful flowers in the painting, but too few of us will think that the woman is working hard behind the scene and that she must water the flowers everyday to keep them beautiful as they will look in the painting. Another possible message may be, what looks beautiful and successful requires preservation and hard working behind. Furthermore, Tulip strongly represents a beautiful hard working woman. Additionally, the composition of this painting is an triangle shape. The invisible triangle lines were wide and slowly extends to an narrow line that forms a triangle shape. Lines starts from the view of flowers and ends at the top of the mountain. In contrast, the Flemish Baroque paintings, uses strong contrast of colors to create paintings that surrounds the subjects of sexuality and nudity. Flemish Baroque paintings were loud, dramatic, and exciting. The message of the painting is pretty straight forward by looking at the paintings. Whereas all the Dutch Baroque paintings acquire viewers screen carefully throughout the paintings, searching little objects that may contain a certain clues for solving the