I have a huge soft spot for dolls' houses.
So did Amsterdam's Petronella Oortman (1656-1716), which is why, in the late 17th century, she commissioned a furniture maker to build a unique doll's house.
Petronella then spent a fortune to fill her doll's house with objects made with extreme precision by basketmakers, sewers, glassblowers and woodcarvers on a small scale and in the highest quality.
The precious house itself is glued with tortoiseshell and pewter.
The dollhouse was so expensive that a painting of it was even made in 1710 by Dutch painter Jacob Appel (1680-1751) That painting hangs in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. And you are now looking at a detail of that painting, digitally enhanced not too much and not too little by me and cut to size so you have a good view of rooms and furnishings the doll's house.
Classic art, in a slightly more modern look.
The stylists at Art Heroes call my art style ‘Art with a Wink’. And I couldn't agree more. Life is serious enough as it is, don't you think? ;-)
I mainly make surrealist artworks and collages, because in those artstyles I can so wonderfully unleash my creativity and unbridled..
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