CHARLES MERYON

CHARLES MERYON  

SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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CHARLES MERYON (also Méryon) (1821-1868) was a French artist. He worked almost exclusively in etchings (since 1848 ), as he suffered from colour blindness.

Meryon is recognized as the most important etching artist of 19^th C France. He, from a young age, wanted to serve with the Navy. In the Navy, he sailed around the world including, Australasia and the South Seas. He sketched his voyages, such as landscapes, houses, or boats sailing near the coast. Many years later, these sketches became part of his etchings.

Meryon’s earliest projects belonged to the conventional history views, but it was after he was forced to etching, he began to work on architectural subjects, often in a romantic style. In his etchings he took Paris as his principal topic, and it was here that his art truly began to flourish.

Meryon was a meticulous person in detailing out the architecture. He would devise a complete building from the multiple sketches, as bottom upwards, the same manner as the builder. His etchings of Paris cover straightforward topographical views along with romantic and disturbing fantasies.

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EUGÈNE GALIEN-LALOUE part -2 Winters

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -Gautam Shah

Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854-1941) was an Impressionist French painter. He painted bustling and cheerful urban life of Paris, on its boulevards, and against the famous landmarks. He was born in the era, when urban life was intensely enjoyed in the city, with the illumination of Gas and electric lighting. It was a time, when affordable and easy means of public transportation, such as horse-drawn carriages, trolley cars, and buses became available.

Eugène Galien-Laloue first studied under his set designer father, Charles Laloue. In 1877, made his debut at the Salon des Artistes Français. He worked for most of his life in Montmartre.

Eugène Galien-Laloue was a skilled and prolific painter. He also painted landscapes of Normandy, Seine-et-Marne, Marseilles, Italy and Venice. This set, -part-I (of 3 parts) covers the his ART with Natural and artificial illumination. In this Part (II), his Winter related paintings are presented. 

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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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