CARL SKÅNBERG

 

CARL SKÅNBERG

SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah 

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Carl Emmerik Skånberg (1850-1883) was a Swedish artist. He was suffering from severe illness. He lived a very short life. Yet, he became a remarkable artist and famous landscape painter. He, as a colorist, was influenced by the Impressionism, In 1875, he went to Paris and later to Northern France, the Netherlands, Sicily in Italy. He painted port and coastal environments. He created a series of watercolours with motifs from and around Taormina. 

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EGON SCHIELE (Studies and Sketches)

 

EGON SCHIELE (Studies and Sketches)

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), was one of the most prolific Austrian artists, who in a short life of 28 years, produced more than 3000 works. Schiele from young age was fond of drawing trains from his station master father’s house. At the age of 16, he moved to Vienna to study at the Academy of Fine Arts. Here, Gustav Klimt who had formed the Vienna Secession, became his mentor. Schiele, remained close friends but moved away from Klimt’s ‘ornate Art Nouveau and developed own Expressionist style. This was a stark, raw and deeply emotional expression drawn with a darker palette. This post presents his studies and sketches.

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WALTER SICKERT

 

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SUNDAY Feature ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was a British painter and printmaker. He was an Impressionist and part of the Camden Town Group of London. Unlike other members of Camden group, Sickert was famous in his lifetime. He is considered a prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism.

In 1883, Sickert travelled to Paris and met Edgar Degas. He was impressed by the Degas use of pictorial space. Yet he developed own style of Impressionism with sober colouration. Following advice by Degas, he abandoned ‘the tyranny of nature’ and began painting in studio relying more on remembrances or impressions. He painted in heavy impasto and narrow tonal range, but disliked the use thick oil-paints -‘as the most un-decorative matter in the world’.

Sickert's renderings were denounced as ugly and vulgar, and choice of subject matter was deplored as too garish for art. Sickert showed recurring interest in sexually provocative themes. Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric, who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects. His work includes portraits of well-known personalities and in later years images formed from own and press photographs. His range of subjects includes domestic interiors, portraits, town scapes and theatrical subjects. In later part of life he developed many eccentric habits and became a celebrity with stunts. He changed his name and appearance.

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