Post 227 -by Gautam Shah
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SUNDAY feature on ART of Architecture
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Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891) was a Dutch painter, but more active in France. He was a painter of marine landscapes (Netherlands and in France) and an etching artist. He had a very strong and traditional training in Dutch landscape painting, but he worked in a free manner. He is considered the forerunner of Impressionism.
Jongkind’s paintings are characterized by vigorous short and broken brushwork. He experimented with strong contrasts, shimmering light on horizontal surfaces and diverse atmospheric effects. Like the 17th C Dutch painters, his early works had a low horizon. He shifted from dark colours to lighter tones. Édouard Manet used to call him ‘the father of modern landscape.’
Many of his works show river Seine with
Notre-Dame Cathedral. He painted
watercolours out-of-doors, and used the
instantaneous impressions for oil paintings. He
began to work extemporary and with a smaller
range of pallette.
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