How Did Rubens Contribute To Art Today

Rubens,a Baroque painter, has contributed so much to art more than any other artist, because of his unique expression of form, composition, and color. He created about 3,000 works of art throughout his life, all of which are now scattered in museums across the world. He is well known for his allegorical references, pyramidal composition, landscapes, and depiction of the human form through his depiction of corpulent women. He influenced many painters as well as avante-garde movements such as the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Fauvist, and Neoclassical. Rubens was an important artist who firmly believed in the classical and displayed this interest of classical antiquity and humanism through his allegorical figures, including nude females. This showed off his personal taste in woman as he had a taste for corpulent woman, sensual nudes, with a plump buxom with soft creamy skin. Rubens captured the female nude so perfectly and explicitly, capturing her as a fertile and sensual female nude.
Trough this technique, he achieves a realistic approach at capturing nature as well as the sensual nudes in such movement and drama and realism. This style of painting is seen widely more or less in the Impressionist period. Monet was definitely influenced by Rubens. Who was to say that one was not able to capture nature at it's greatest by using this Rubenesque style of painting? Rubens plays with the light a little in this one. As the light glares off of Marie Medici's dress, the light plays off of the female nudes breasts in the