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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 614482, member: 5066"]This 1670 Dutch painting by Jan Steen, "Family Scene" illustrates the point perfectly, notice the lady in the chair who is feeling no pain, leaning the only way possible in this type of chair, straight back.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]180296[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>"What’s going on at this rowdy family party?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here, Jan Steen exposes the spectacle of a rowdy family gathering. At the centre of the chaos, a mother restrains her toddler who stands on the table and reaches towards the plume of smoke curling up from the father’s pipe. It’s a clever illustration of the Dutch proverb: ‘as the old pipe, so pipe the young’, meaning that children mimic their parents’ behaviour. And here, the behaviour is less than ideal… In the foreground, a richly-dressed woman leans back in drunken abandon, a wine pitcher dangling from her hand. At the right foreground, an overturned bowl and broken eggs are evidence of the family’s carelessness. A servant girl carries a fresh pie into the room, but the over-indulged family have still left half-eaten waffles and pastries on the table. And in the background, a couple of sombrely dressed visitors seem to disapprove of this uncouth household. Prosperity gave the Dutch middle class access to a rather luxurious lifestyle, but over-indulgence was at odds with their values of temperance and humility. No painter illustrated this irony better than Jan Steen."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 614482, member: 5066"]This 1670 Dutch painting by Jan Steen, "Family Scene" illustrates the point perfectly, notice the lady in the chair who is feeling no pain, leaning the only way possible in this type of chair, straight back. [ATTACH=full]180296[/ATTACH] "What’s going on at this rowdy family party? Here, Jan Steen exposes the spectacle of a rowdy family gathering. At the centre of the chaos, a mother restrains her toddler who stands on the table and reaches towards the plume of smoke curling up from the father’s pipe. It’s a clever illustration of the Dutch proverb: ‘as the old pipe, so pipe the young’, meaning that children mimic their parents’ behaviour. And here, the behaviour is less than ideal… In the foreground, a richly-dressed woman leans back in drunken abandon, a wine pitcher dangling from her hand. At the right foreground, an overturned bowl and broken eggs are evidence of the family’s carelessness. A servant girl carries a fresh pie into the room, but the over-indulged family have still left half-eaten waffles and pastries on the table. And in the background, a couple of sombrely dressed visitors seem to disapprove of this uncouth household. Prosperity gave the Dutch middle class access to a rather luxurious lifestyle, but over-indulgence was at odds with their values of temperance and humility. No painter illustrated this irony better than Jan Steen."[/QUOTE]
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