FILIPPO CARCANO

 

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Filippo Carcano (1840-1914) was Italian Artist. He studied art at the Brera Academy in Milan. He began painting with everyday life, but shifted to drawing landscapes and other scenes, as impressed with Naturalism of School of Lombard. He captured the surroundings of Lake Maggiore and the Mottarone, mountain peaks on the border with Switzerland. In spite of rapid industrialization across Europe he remained a traditional naturalist. 

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JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER -Etching art

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James 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.

Whistler followed two principles through his career, 1 Line is more important than colour and 2 Black is the fundamental colour for the tonal harmony. 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. In 1859, he lodged near the Thames, London in the docklands south of Tower Bridge and began to make etchings of the river surroundings. He rendered the distant warehouses in sharp details, but treated the closer forms broadly.

Whistler avoided sentimentality and symbolism. He 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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JOHANNES ITTEN

 

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Johannes Itten (1888-1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, colour theorist, writer and teacher with Weimar Bauhaus. He first studied at Geneva’s École des Beaux-Arts in 1909, but returned to Bern-Hofwil Teachers’ Academy. In 1912, he came to Geneva to study with abstract painter Eugène Gilliard.

Itten taught fundamentals of material qualities, composition, and colour at the Bauhaus (from 1919 to 1922). He wrote a book ‘The Art of Colour’(1961). He believed ‘Colours must have a mystical capacity for spiritual expression, without being tied to objects’.

Itten adopted a series of basic geometric shapes (the line, the plane, the circle, the spiral), along with the exploration of the colour contrasts. His artworks cover a wide range of styles and experiments in composition. 

 

 

 

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