GEORGE AMES ALDRICH

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah 

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George Ames Aldrich (1872-1941) was an American Impressionist painter. He painted rural, coastal and canal bank-side landscapes of Brittany and Normandy, and genre paintings. He worked as an illustrator for several English and American magazines and newspapers, such as the Punch magazine and The London Times.

Aldrich painted rural village and river scenes, during several visits to France. This was his main oeuvre, which he reproduced with few atmospheric details. His subject, style, and compositions were diverse, often influenced or imitative. He was proud of his skill of rendering swiftly flowing water, though these were inspired by the works of Norwegian impressionist landscapist Fritz Thaulow.

He worked in Impressionists manner, where shadows were muted. In later part of life, he shifted from rural scapes and water fronts, to factories and steel mills.

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ALBERT MARQUET

 

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SUNDAY feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Albert Marquet (1875-1947) was one of the best known French Fauvist Painters. He was a close friend and colleague of Henri Matisse. He was a scene painter of quays, waterways and ports in oils and watercolours. He has also produced many figurative works (nudes and portraits).

He began with Fauvist vividness but over the years turned to simplified Impressionism. His forms and details were too rustic and further accentuated by brushstrokes and diagonal or inclined emphasis. His drawings were raw, but composition and presentation were precise and well conceived. He tried to exploit the shimmer of water, but rarely the atmospheric effects. He preferred to draw top-down views, as seen from a high point. His studio window was on a high floor, and he used it for a wider perspective. Marquet used vivid colours but has created the same contrast values in grey dominated paintings.

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ANNA SOFIA PALM DE ROSA

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Anna Sophia Palm de Rosa (1859-1924) was a Swedish water-colour artist. She was famous for her ‘postcard paintings’. Her father, Gustaf Wilhelm Palm, was a well-known landscape artist, and her mother, was the daughter of painter Johan Gustaf Sandberg.

She was influenced by Skagen Painters (The Skagen painters were a group of Scandinavian artists who were active in Skagen in Jutland, mainly during the 1870s and 1880s).

She became, by 1890s, one of the ‘Sweden's most popular painters, with her watercolours of steamers and sailing ships and scenes of Stockholm’. Her coastal scenes have shimmering light, typical of Skagen painters.

He one of the earliest art work, (last plate in this series) was a painting of a game of cards in Skagen's Brøndums Hotel gouache on paper on canvas. This was in 1885, while she spent a summer with the Skagen Painters.

From 1889 to 1891 taught water-colour at the Swedish academy. She painted (post card water-colours) of coastal scenes, boats, sail ships, steamers, scenes of the city of Stockholm, Swedish places, folk life, motifs, young military men and various soldiers. Her paintings were well detailed and colour. Her paintings consisted of terrain views, genre scenes, streets with people. But architectural details and perspectives were perfunctory. This was because her scenes were probably adopted from black-white photographs. Anna Palm de Rosa’s output was extensive, about several hundred works.

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