ELWIN HENRY HAWTHORNE

 

ELWIN HENRY HAWTHORNE

SUNDAY Series on ART of Architecture -by -Gautam Shah

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Elwin Hawthorne (1905-1954) was a British painter. He and his wife, both were members, of the ‘East London Group’ (which emphasized urban realism through shared outdoor painting trips to locations in Essex, Kent, and Sussex ). His father was also a painter and decorator. Elwin had no formal training, except few ‘hobby’ classes. He was often described as an English Utrillo (a Paris-based urban artist).

Hawthorne painted a number of buildings of London, including, St John-at-Hampstead, St Andrew's church in Vanbrugh Park, North Foreland Lighthouse. He was a versatile artist, in oils, watercolour and printmaking. He concentrated intensively in oil painting, just for fifteen years (1925-40). He met Walter Sickert, and became his studio assistant for three years.

Hawthorne’s style of painting was of extensive use of subdued colours, good rendering of architectural form and urban ordinary urban scenes, but without embellishment. He captured melancholy quietude, nostalgia of urban environments with characteristic softness.

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ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE

 

ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE

SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah 

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ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE (1587-1630) was a Dutch naturalistic landscape painter. He was also a prolific etcher, engraver and draughtsman. His earliest works are in the Mannerist tradition, in which, the landscapes were constructed in a fantastic and unrealistic manner, showing turbulent and hilly scenes from a low point of view so that the sky or the horizon almost disappeared.

By 1615s, he moved away from the panoramic effect, high viewpoints to adopt simple triangular compositions, often with a strong diagonal, tighter conception of the individual forms, clear outlines, and the use of chiaroscuro (the treatment of light and shades). The colouration was now local, tonal, uniform and undramatic. He reduced the number of figures that were typical in traditional in 16^th C northern landscape painting.

He created 180 pictures, 117 of which are landscapes. Graphic works number 200 and engravings and etchings are of 120 prints. He signed his paintings in two different ways: In the early period (1614–16) as ‘E Van Den Velde’ and in the later periods as ‘E. V. Velde’.

In addition to pure landscapes, Esaias painted various figures in landscape settings. He also collaborated with architectural painter Bartholomeus van Bassen (1590-1652), to draw figures and also the representations of ‘pictures within the picture’.

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