ALBERTO PASINI

 

Post 183  -By Gautam Shah 

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Alberto Pasini (1826-1899) was an Italian painter, known for his middle-east scenes of extreme realist quality. But, he was called, by the westerners, as ‘romanticist as well as orientalist’. He, at the age of 17 enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Parma.

He was commissioned (1850-1851), for a series of lithographs ‘Thirty Views of Castles around Piacenza, Lunigiana and Parma’. Pasini was an ardent traveller and visited places like, Tehran, North of Persia, Armenia, port of Trabzon, Paris, Mediterranean, Middle East, Cairo, Arabian desert of Sinai, Lebanese coasts, Athens, Venice, Spain, Cannes, Constantinople and Turkey. He painted about one thousand works.

Pasini paintings were produced from his on site plein-air sketches as he was a follower of the Barbizon school. His capacity to capture the architectural details, draw micro size figures in detail, excellent facial expressions, and the space proportions were excellent. His atmospheric details were sober but pleasant. He worked in an age where other painters were dabbing into diverse styles and trying to find footing, but Pasini captured non exotic urban locations with ease and simplicity. His such works do not show the decadence or the related symbolism of the industrial age.

 

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ANTHONIE DE LORME

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ANTHONIE DE LORME (1610–1673) was a Dutch painter. He was called a Master of Space. He mainly painted real and imaginary church interiors of Rotterdam. Many of his details (depicted in the interior of the Church of Saint Lawrence, Rotterdam) were used for restorations after WW-II.

De Lorme's imaginary views of the church interiors were his forte for the first twenty years of his career, but around 1652, he began to draw accurate or real-life interior views of the local churches with a few figures, probably inserted by a friend. Later he painted church interiors’ close-up, bathed in light. From 1660s De Lorme refined his simple, realistic style into a more decorative manner, using architecture to create spatial effects than an objective scenes. He experimented with bold light effects and shadows, often from a single source like candles and torches at night.

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ALSON SKINNER CLARK

 

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Alson S. Clark (1876-1949) was California's most well known painters. He is remembered for his tonal portraits and figure studies, extensive work on urban landscape scenes like industrial structures railroads, bridges, factories and painting en plein air work in Spanish areas.

He began studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, as a Saturday evening student. He spent his early career in Paris. Clark travelled extensively visiting Normandy, Gavarnie, parts of Italy and Spain, the Netherlands, Dalmatia, and Canada, besides the Panama Canal construction site.

He went to California to recover from a hearing disability incurred during the war After WW-I. ‘He was reluctant to resume his painting career, but found the desert, coast and mountains of the Southern California too fascinating to resist’. He began now working on large plein-air landscapes in a free and brighter mode.

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