LUIGI NONO

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Luigi Nono (1850-1918) was an Italian painter, known for his genre scenes depicting life among the poor. Luigi had art exposure from his wealthy artistic family. He had his formal training at Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice (1865), under Pompeo Molmenti. At an early age he began to paint Friulian countryside, but later returned to painting genre subjects of everyday life.

He uses darker colours in his early art, but, later, there is a distinct experimental preference for the whites. He least exploits the atmospheric effects for skies or things on ground. His interior scenes of home of the poor are without any definitive illumination. The portraits, like the interiors scenes remain in his old style of darker tones. His inclusion of active human beings enliven his art and make it popular. In later works some impressionist effects can be observed.

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JACOB VAN RUISDAEL

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SUNDAY feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Jacob van Ruisdael (1628-1682) was a Dutch landscape painter, who is considered to be the pioneer of non-religious or non mythological landscapes ‘-as an independent subject matter’ He works, marks the Golden age of Dutch art. He first learnt art from his father and uncle. He became a versatile artist with a wide variety of topics like city panoramas, windmills, canals, water-falls, woody scenes, water streams, and seascapes.

The artist created wide format extensive landscapes, as well as square format scenes, a difficult task to handle. In both, the formats, he created dramatic views of clouds, sun-light, shadows on the terrain, windswept trees, gushing streams and unusual combination of colours to fill-up the skies. He used double the space of canvas for skies, over the lands. The sky-colours were well exploited, by him, in the early 17^th C, well before the colour theories were formed in late 19^th C. 

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