ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE

 

ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE

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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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PRESTON DICKINSON

 

PRESTON DICKINSON

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William Preston Dickinson (1889-1930) was one of the first American artists of industrial-scapes in Precisionist # style.

Dickinson’s earliest Precisionist works used basic geometric shapes with abstraction as well as realism. He works, uses many styles and effects of contemporary art, but never consistently or in any definable in a chronological order. Many of his industrial scenes were imaginary.

Dickinson loved fluid effect of water colour and sharp strokes of crayons, and took both to the oil painting. He emphasized the vertical and upward perspective through, towers, chimneys, pipes, columns, grains elevators, water tanks. Very little representation of the nature is seen, be it trees, skies, or water bodies.

The urban structures were depicted in precise, sharply defined geometrical forms. The angular geometry was also part of cubist practice, but here in Dickinson’s works, the abstraction was not as obvious.

# Precisionism was the first exclusively US art movement relating to indigenous style of Modernism, emerging in post WW-1 period, around 1915. It became popular during 1920-30s for dealing with new lifestyles of skyscrapers, bridges, railway stations, automobiles and factories. It has also been called ‘Cubist-Realism. Contemporary critics had tough time to define the emergent trend in art. Another Precisionist artist Charles Chillers work was called the ‘Immaculates’. 

 

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