The Attic II
Artist / maker
Jean Brusselmans (painters (artists))Date
ca. 1939Period
20th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
The work is one of a series of paintings of women in an interior, in which the model is Brusselmans’ wife Marie-Léonie. The couple lived in abject poverty and the artist was often weighed down by the misery of everyday life. However, in paintings like this he expressed not only his bitterness at social injustice but also his admiration for…
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The work is one of a series of paintings of women in an interior, in which the model is Brusselmans’ wife Marie-Léonie. The couple lived in abject poverty and the artist was often weighed down by the misery of everyday life. However, in paintings like this he expressed not only his bitterness at social injustice but also his admiration for his wife’s devotion. From the 1920s onwards Jean Brusselmans’ work was dominated by a rigid and classical composition of areas of colour with dark outlines. Increasingly, he reduced what he saw to large clear basic shapes. The outlines emphasises the rigid structuring of reality.
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