Post 207 -by Gautam Shah
SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture
William Edwin Atkinson (1862 -1926), (also known as W.E. Atkinson), was a Canadian painter. His oeuvre consists of landscape, village streets, farms, beaches, boats and greens. He loved to draw atmospheric effects such as dawn, dusk and moonlight. He worked in ink, graphite, watercolour, gauche and oil.
Atkinson was influenced by many art manners of the day. He worked with realism, tonalism and impressionism. He was also inspired by the Barbizon school and the Hague School. He depicted women in the scene setting without any specific emotions.
One day, when Atkinson was painting the ‘old mill’, Gauguin who passing by told him “to use stronger colour. If the sky is blue, paint the roof red, and, If the roof is blue, paint the sky green’. Atkinson followed Gauguin’s advice and pitched the colour contrast scheme. ‘The light in his work might be hazy, but the forms are luminous and his use of colour was fairly brighter in comparison to others’.
Atkinson worked in Paris, Devon, England and in Holland before settling down in Toronto.
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