JACOBUS VREL

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Jacobus Vrel (1654-1670) was Dutch, Flemish, (or Westphalian =NW Germany), painter of interiors and town street scenes. He worked through the Dutch Golden period (1588–1672).

In terms of pictorial ideas, Vrel was a forerunner of Vermeer, rather than a follower. He has in common with Vermeer, the simplicity of composition, lesser attention to details. Vrel painted without glazes. He painted intimate atmospheric scenes of everyday life of the Dutch middle class. But he never painted any historical or important events. Due to little historical evidence, he has been called, ‘the most elusive painter of 17^th C. Holland’. It is believed that he lived in a provincial town, rather than a major art centre. The places in his scenes are possibly imaginary. 

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CORNELIS SPRINGER

 

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Originally published on 7 JAN 2018, Now refreshed presentation.

Cornelis Springer (1817-1891) was a Dutch Painter of town views. He learnt painting from his father, Carpenter Willem Springer. and Hendrik Gerrit ten Cate, Kasparus Karsen, Jacobus van der Stok. His brother Heindrik was a professional architect and he introduced Cornelis to the principles of perspective and architectural design.

Springer was a prolific painter. He began with imaginary town scapes and images of bygone age. His paintings include views of Amsterdam, Alkmaar, Den Briel, Enkhuizen, Haarlem, Oudewater and Zwolle, as well as German towns. He worked with diverse mediums like water colours, chalk, pencil, etchings, and oil paintings. He had no particular bias for certain perspectives, and has handled the visual space from many different facets. He has used natural light to define the space and its extent without resorting to make-believe contrasts. 

 

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HIROSHI YOSHIDA

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) was a Japanese painter and wood-block print-maker. He began his artistic training with his adoptive father. Hiroshi Yoshida is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style. Around the age of twenty, he moved to Kyoto, and later to Tokyo. Yoshida travelled widely across the world. He is known for the excellent depiction of local architecture and people, but yet maintained his Japanese flavour.

Yoshida, From 1920, started giving attention to print making. His wood-block style prints are characterized by neat edge delineation of the form, and nearly shade-less in-fill of colour into the formed zones. He adapted, both, the oil and water, colours in art, He was the key person in the Meiji Fine Arts Society.

Yoshida had excellent sense of colour contrast, and capacity to form complex composition of visual elements. His, this talent was nearly unmatched. He was an artist of the industrial age and wars, but these have not affected his art subjects.

 

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