FRANK MYERS BOGGS

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Frank Myers Boggs (1855-1926) was an American-born French painter (since 1923). He began his career as a wood engraver for Harper’s, preparing illustrations, and for the works of Charles Dickens. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts.

Boggs was fast working, spontaneous and an impulsive painter, and so was called an impressionist. But his dark tonal treatment of colours were against any such classification.

Boggs used light primarily to reveal structure and form’. He, though rarely used architectural shadows. He mainly worked in coastal areas drawing harbours, quays in Dieppe, Honfleur, and Grandcamp. He also worked on architecture and street scenes.

Boggs worked extensively with water-colours, crayons, ink and charcoal, oil colours. He also worked on etchings.

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FYODOR ALEKSEYEV

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Fyodor Alekseyev (1753-1824) was a Russian landscape painter. His father was a guardian of the Academy of Sciences. He studied initially at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. In 1773, he was sent to Venice to specialize in decorative painting.

After Venice training, his early life was of struggle, spent as a decorator and set painter. But he learnt the craft of Landscape painting. He began to practice Plein air painting. Between 1793 and 1800, He visited cities and towns of southern Russia, painting local scenes and buildings. His work reflected the atmospheric warmth of Venice, rather than the cold and drab climate of Russian winters.

Alekseyev, contemporaries often called him the ‘Russian Canaletto’, in recognition of his masterful vedute.

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VALDEMAR KORNERUP

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Valdemar Kornerup (1865-1924) was a Danish Painter of Interior spaces. He was the son of a skilled lithographer, who initiated him in the Art field. He, during, 1881-85, worked at the Academy of Arts. He, in 1887, made a debut at Charlottenborg, with two pictures. Kornerup, in 1898, studied in Norway, where he mainly stayed. He travelled in France and Italy, in 1890, he was in Italy, Spain and Greece and in 1895 again in Italy.

He was acknowledged as one of the last great folk life painters in Denmark. Even when the painting styles were changing across Europe, he continued to paint on Danish old school Art that idealized, romanticized and celebrated the simple homely interiors.

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