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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