FEDERICO DEL CAMPO

 

EDERICO DEL CAMPO

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Sunday Feature on ART of Architecture 

Federico del Campo (1837-1923) was a Peruvian painter, but more famous for his work on Venice scapes. He toured Italy, and painted in Naples, Capri, Rome, Assisi and Venice. He was very popular for Venice scenes. He painted several of them multiple times for the large international market. English tourist liked his work, and later, he moved to London for the clientele of aristocrats and merchants.

His work shows bright skies and shimmering blue-purple water. There are no gloomy scenes anywhere. Whites, bright colours, and brilliance add cheer to the scapes.  

 

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CHARLES MERYON

CHARLES MERYON  

SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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CHARLES MERYON (also Méryon) (1821-1868) was a French artist. He worked almost exclusively in etchings (since 1848 ), as he suffered from colour blindness.

Meryon is recognized as the most important etching artist of 19^th C France. He, from a young age, wanted to serve with the Navy. In the Navy, he sailed around the world including, Australasia and the South Seas. He sketched his voyages, such as landscapes, houses, or boats sailing near the coast. Many years later, these sketches became part of his etchings.

Meryon’s earliest projects belonged to the conventional history views, but it was after he was forced to etching, he began to work on architectural subjects, often in a romantic style. In his etchings he took Paris as his principal topic, and it was here that his art truly began to flourish.

Meryon was a meticulous person in detailing out the architecture. He would devise a complete building from the multiple sketches, as bottom upwards, the same manner as the builder. His etchings of Paris cover straightforward topographical views along with romantic and disturbing fantasies.

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KONSTANTIN KOROVIN

 KONSTANTIN KOROVIN

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (1861-1939) was a leading Russian colourist, Impressionist, and later An Art Nouveau style painter. Korovin travelled within Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, Italy and Spain, and loved visiting Paris every year. In Paris he visited boulevards at all different times of the day, but preferred painting in the evening ‘because it reminded him of the theatre and he thought the colours were more intense at night’.

Korovin used large flat brush strokes or directions to shape a form. He used large variety of tones, from mixed hues to purest shades, often straight out of the tubes. His colour contrasts were highly skilful that he began exploring in the design of sets. ‘All the colours of the world beckoned to him and smiled at him’.

One pupil has described him, as ‘Unusually emotional and impatient to act, he quickly burned with enthusiasm about everything that fell under his painter's eye’.

‘My major and the only ever-pursued purpose in the art was beauty, aesthetic influence on the viewer, the fascination of colours and shapes. No lecturing, no moral tendency to anybody ever.’

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