CARL MOLL

 

Post 185 -by Gautam Shah

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture

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Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (1861-1945) was an art nouveau painter of Vienna Austria. He was a founder-member of the movement-group Vienna Secession in 1897. He played a great role with Gustav Klimt in that group. He was inspired by the pointillist techniques of French Impressionists.

Carl Moll’s paintings are characterized by the use of pointillist techniques  within the paintings. He was expert in using light to show the changing hours and seasons. His landscapes reflect a sense of tranquillity and harmony.

He used bright colours, textured by bold and large brush strokes, forming the impressionistic effect. His square shaped landscape paintings are filled up in the bottom space, leaving little for the skies, yet his skill makes the upper section an unmissable element.

 Pointillist Technique was innovated by Artist Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, in 1886. It is said to be a sub-style of the Impressionism, often called Neo-impressionism. The technique relies on the ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to blend the spots of colours into full mixed tone. This is different from traditional method of blending colours on a palette or canvas. For this oil colours are preferred for their thickness, which prevents the 'running or bleeding. Pointillism is analogous to CMYK printing process. Televisions and computer monitors also use a similar technique to generate an image using Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) colours.

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