STANISLAWA de KARLOWSKA

 

STANISLAWA de KARLOWSKA (1876-1952)

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah 

STANISLAWA de KARLOWSKA 

Stanislawa De Karlowska (1876-1952) was a Polish-born artist. She was trained as an artist in Cracow, and than at the Académie Julian in Paris. She was a founder member of the London Group, and exhibited with them throughout her life. She married Camden Town Group painter Robert Bevan and they settled in London. As a member of Camden Town Group, she followed a modern post-impressionist style with bright colours to depict the local urban environment, the growing industrial landscape, and the countryside.

Stanislawa was a modernist with traces of Polish folk art. She overcame her initial inability to detail the nature and human figures, with the bold use of colours. She continued to exploit bold colours to achieve her expression of an abstract character. Her paintings have been consistently compared with her husband’s works (Robert Bevan). Her art had flatter perspectives, intense colours, elongated figures and dream-like atmosphere. 

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ROBERT BEVAN

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925) was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group of London, and the Cumberland Market Group (English Post-Impressionist artists). His work shows impressions of Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. He also received encouragement from Renoir, particularly in his drawing of horses. His painting, Courtyard is described as the first exercises in the expressive use of pure colour in this century.

Robert Bevan used simpler colour schemes of large extensive fills. He avoids using the shadows to present the forms including the architecture. He was initially influenced by many of his contemporary artists, but eventually mastered own style. After a break of nearly twenty years, he began working on lithography, but now the works are more as tonal translations of colour paintings. 

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