GUGLIELMO CIARDI

 

SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Guglielmo Ciardi (1842-1917) was an Italian landscape Painter. He first enrolled in 1861 at Venice Academy of Fine Arts, for studying perspective (with Federico Moja), and landscape and seascape (with Domenico Bresolin). On trips to France he was acquainted with the Barbizon School.

Ciardi, from 1869, adopted more luminous colour style for realistic scenes of the lagoon and the peasants’ life. His sense of composition was natural in spite of learning perspectives. His works are rooted in preparatory pencil sketches. He has drawn several rural cottages, both, in plains and hilly terrains, but without any superfluous or sensorial extras. His drawings for sail boats in the seas and canals show preference for brown to orange colours. At places he has experimented with impressionist to pointillist effects through the colours and brush strokes.

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THOMAS COLE

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Thomas Cole (1801-1848) was Britain born, and America settled Painter. He was a romantic and realist painter of local American Landscapes. He was initially trained by a portrait artist.

Thomas Cole is credited to be the founder of the Hudson River school, a group of artist working along the river. He travelled on foot, sketching scenes with the pencil. These were used later, to compose paintings, during the winter period in the studio. He captured the virgin beauty of An American country side instead of America turning to industrial culture.

Thomas Cole was skilled in preparing large canvases of dramatic scenes, with minute detailing of elements as well as grand colour effects. He spent years in Florence. He implanted human figures for the make-believe sense of life. His compositions of landscapes were well managed but lacked innovations seen elsewhere in contemporary times. In his landscape there was greater emphasis on trees than architectural form. He used colour contrasts but not with the evocative sunlight. 

 

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CHARLES-THÉODORE FRÈRE

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Charles-Théodore Frère (1814-1888) was a French Artist, of oriental locations (including Africa and the Near East). He painted architecture, desert climate life, and landscapes. Frère studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. He settled in Algiers in 1836, then in Constantinople from 1837 to 1839. In 1853, he opened a studio in Cairo and also became a painter of the court.

Frère was a prolific realist painter. He was good at integrating local people, animals and architecture, etc. in the landscape scenes. He portrayed local people sensitively without any class bias. He painted whatever was seen, truthfully. He became the leader of the ‘sympathetic art’ movement in France. He was charmed by the brilliant sunlight. He painted whatever was seen, truthfully. His natural portrayal of local people and places made many in France, aware about the ethnological value of their African colonies.

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