Dora Lynnell Wilson

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Dora Lynnell Wilson (1883-1946), was a British-born, Australian artist. Dora was educated at National Gallery School (1901-06). She was best known for the street scenes of Melbourne and other places in Europe. 1930s she focussed on historical scenes from Melbourne's history, forming an exhibition entitled 'Milestones of Melbourne'.

Dora was an Impressionist & Modernist painter. She had fresh and 'strong sense of colour' but was criticized showing a 'chocolate box prettiness’. She experimented with drawing people, buildings, and some ‘accidental’ effects of light and shade. Her avoidance of Black helped to create a comforting atmosphere.

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CLAUDE MONET

 

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Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting. He began painting landscapes, seascapes and portraits, but attracted little attention. His mentor Eugène Boudin introduced him to the concept of plein air painting. And he remained a consistent and prolific artist of plein air painting, in the impressionistic style. His oeuvre of sketches, caricatures, paintings, is very large.

The term ‘Impressionism’ is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, which was exhibited in 1874. He painted landscape of Paris city and Normandy coasts. He painted same scene-spot (changing images of the pond, the water lilies), several times to capture the changing light in various seasons.

Monet exploited asymmetry in art that highlighted the form without the use of perspective or colour aided modelling. He exploited brightness of colour to lighten the atmosphere. 

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CLIVE BRANSON

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Clive Branson 1907-1944, was born at Ahmednagar, India. He was an English artist, poet, soldier and an active communist. He studied at the Slade School of Art. He was an Impressionist and Modernist. But he deliberately adopted a naïve manner, as a rejection of high-end art.

Branson fought in the Spanish civil war, where as a prisoner of war at the Nationalist camp of San Pedro de Cardeña, he painted and sketched, the camp and many of its inmates. Later, during the WW-II, he served the British army in Burma (Myanmar), where he died.

Branson painted many Battersea street scenes during the blitz. He painted grounds area with some unsophisticated realism, but the skies are filled with forms of surrealistic nature that belie the actual war-time appendages. He painted exteriors of buildings as part of the scenic compositions, but except for the painting of the Indian home interior, never touched the interiors of British Industrial units. His communism was more of the political activism, and less of socialism. 

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