Post 168 -Gautam Shah
SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture
.
Charles Louis Lesaint (1795-1843) was a French architectural Painter and Lithographer. He was a water-colourist who used Gouache technique extensively. He inherited the penchant for ruins from his teacher Charles-Marie Bouton. He painted the interior and exterior views of Gothic monuments of the Paris region.
The art of Lesaint reflects the rejection of elaborate and d frivolous Baroque style, for simplification. He served to the popularity of landscape and genre scenes of the increasing class of the bourgeoisie.
His art has subdued emotions, symmetrical compositions, masses of rich colours, but without the contrast. He exploits the interiors spatial effects through arches and vaults. He avoids the mountain views, sunsets, skies and other environmental effects. The illumination is from top and indirect glow. He depicts ruins, but without the sense of decay. The human figures are small in scale, but full of active presence.
.
.
No comments:
Post a Comment