WILFRED JENKINS

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Wilfred Bosworth Jenkins (British Victorian painter, 1857-1936). Wilfred began with a studio, as a carver and gilder. He than started painting, but exhibited only locally.

He was a little known artist of the era, but is now beginning to be reevaluated for his dusk time paintings. He painted nocturnal images, water scenes, moonlit streets and buildings. He highlighted the twilight with illumination falling out of the glass windows and feeble street lights. He used many colours for the atmospheric effects to express the mood.

He never used impressionistic or expressionistic effects in his paintings. He uses the moon of summer evenings (brighter fortnight), and rarely the west side early morning moon (of the dark fortnight). His water colours are worlds apart in style.

He was possibly impressed by the style of his contemporary Atkinson Grimshaw.

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VLADIMIR BARANOFF-ROSSINÉ

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Wladimir Davidovich Baranoff-Rossine (1888-1944) was a Ukrainian, A Russian and French, avant-garde painter (Cubist-Futurist) and also an Inventor. His studied art in Odessa and St. Petersburg. He was a Jew, so taken by the Nazis to German, Auschwitz, concentration camp and killed there in 1944.

As an inventor he designed an Optophonic piano, synesthetic instrument, capable of creating sounds and synchronized coloured lights, patterns and textures (it was tried out at a performance at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow). He also experimented with colours for the military technique of camouflage.

Baranoff-Rossine ’s early works were Realist in nature, but over the years his sense of colour helped him to achieve composition and organization in his scapes. His sense of colour was excellent. He experimented with all types of media and styles like Cubism, Futurism and Orphism. He showed mastery of the portraiture including self-portraits in different styles. He created sculptural Dadaistic collages, which were too radical for the age.

 

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GIFFORD BEAL

 

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Gifford Reynolds Beal (1879-1956 of New York). His paintings represent the contradictions of life in the 20^th C, but as an optimist he depicted ‘an exuberant side of life’. This was unlike many of his contemporaries who had harsh socialist commentaries to offer. Beal's typical subjects were, city scapes, industrial scenes, rural or coastal activities, scenes of leisure like parties, parades and circuses, all joyous accessions become subject matter of his art.

Beal studied art in USA, unlike the then fashion to go to Europe. Beal exploited media like charcoal, ink, pencil, gauche, water colours and oil paint in as many different styles of painting he came across, like a realist, plein air, impressionist, pointillism. He adopted each of the combinations with mastery. He used fluidity of water colours and thick layered impasto of oil colours. He adopted the art media and style combinations with mastery. With age, Beal's style became austere, but bolder, from the realistic to abstract.

 

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