GIACOMO GUARDI

 

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Giacomo Guardi (1764-1835) was an Italian painter from Venice. He was the youngest son of famous veduta painter Francesco Guardi. He worked in his father’s studio and continued his father's line of work. He collaborated with his father for large formats and completed, many of his father’s large format oil paintings.

Giacomo, unlike his father, painted in mixed media and Gauche but in small formats. He also sketched in pen and grey wash. He painted with few atmospherically rendered scenes. He ‘continued with the Venetian Baroque art, at a time when Neoclassicism and Romanticism had come to prevail’. He did not achieve the level of originality and mastery of his father reached. 

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PIERRE HENRI DE VALENCIENNES

 

PIERRE HENRI DE VALENCIENNES

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture by Gautam Shah

Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, was a French painter (1750-1819). He was the pioneer of French Landscape painting. Valenciennes created a new kind of landscape painting that included styles all genre. He worked with historical myths and Greek antiquity. He spent several years (1769-1785) in Rome and Italy. He generally concentrated on ordinary vistas and ruins, ignoring the well-known sites and panoramas.

Valenciennes belief was, ‘work in haste, so as to seize the Nature as she is’, this was well before the ‘Plein air painting’ became popular in the art world. It was novel approach to the art of landscape painting.

Valenciennes also urged artists to capture the distinctive details of a scene's architecture, dress, agriculture, but his human figurations are too casual or perfunctory.

At the turn of the century, he began to lighten his palette, using more oil and emphatic brush strokes. It was a less polished manner, yet a decorative style.

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STUART DAVIS

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Stuart Davis (1892-1964) was an American Modernist painter, best known for his brilliant pure colours, abstractions of buildings, street scenes, and landscapes.

Stuart’s compositions seem to be of abstract collage of geometrical shapes. Many of his paintings have strong drawn frames, but he often breached the rectangularity of the image. He worked in 2D planes, using flat extensive colour to define the space, calling it Color-Space Compositions.

Stuart once said ‘My concept of form is very simple and is based on the assumption that space is continuous and that matter is discontinuous.’  

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