JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah 

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was Britain based, American Painter. He worked in oil, watercolour, pastels and extensively practised printmaking. Whistler produced hundreds of etchings, lithographs, and dry-points. Lithographs, were drawn on stone and also on lithographic paper.

Whistler was famous for nocturne or night scenes, painted with a near monochrome colour palette. He followed two principles through his career, 1 Line is more important than colour and 2 Black is the fundamental colour for the tonal harmony. (This philosophy was controverted by the Impressionists, twenty years later, who rejected black and brown and preferred dominance of colours over the form). He sketched and painted back alleys, canals, entrance ways, and many other rarely perceived points of views. In simple black-white presentations without the use of colour he had the craft of feeling in live atmosphere.

Whistler formed a distinctive style of his own, from diverse sources, and arrived at a version of that avoided sentimentality and symbolism. For him Art was for art’s own sake. He was deeply attached to music, and described his art work in musical vocabulary arrangements, harmonies and tonal harmony.

Whistler was a leader in the Aesthetic Movement, promoting, writing, and lecturing on it. He professed for simpler compositions but his sketches show his way of capturing the scene directly in a well-composed manner.

 

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JULIAN FALAT

 

JULIAN FALAT

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Sunday Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Julian Fałat (1853-1929) was a Polish painter in water Colour Landscapes. He was a leading impressionistic painter of Poland.

Falat, for a while, worked as a draftsman at the construction of a railway in Switzerland. He first studied art at the Kraków School of Fine Arts, and then at the Art Academy of Munich. He visited countries of the Europe in 1885, and compiled a collection of the studies. He painted landscapes, hunting scenes, winter scapes, cottages, historic sites and portraits. He accepted request of (future) German Emperor Wilhelm II to serve as court painter in Berlin. He was Director of the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, then the Academy of Fine Arts. He reformed and modernized the art education.

Falat was a prolific painter. A museum in Poland, called Fałatówka, is devoted to him. Some of his works were looted during German occupation. 

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MARCIN ZALESKI

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Sunday Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Marcin Zaleski (1796-1877) was a Polish painter. He is considered the greatest Polish vedutist (Landscape Painter) of the 19^th C., representing the Neoclassicism. He painted the cityscapes of Warsaw, Kraków and Vilnius.

Zaleski received his education in Kraków and Warsaw. At the age of 20 he began to work as a stage decorator, while on the side line, producing copies of old paintings.

Zaleski in 1828, for the first time, exhibited own work and received a scholarship to continue the art education in Germany, France and Italy.

Zaleski had interest in capturing 3D built-forms, which led him to adopt the craft of photography. He was among the first Polish daguerreotypists to exploit it (photo-artist expert in the process of making photographs like pictures made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine is developed by exposure to mercury vapour).

In 1846, he was appointed as a Professor of perspective at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. 

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