GIORGIONE

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Giorgione (1477-78 -1510) was extremely influential Italian Painter, initiators of a High Renaissance style in Venetian art, characterised by use of colour and mood. Giorgio Vasari said he surpassed the older and contemporary masters, by adopting a modern technique.

He died due to plague, at a young age, in his thirties. Very little details are known. Only six of his paintings are assuredly attributed to him. His qualities of mood and mystery are seen in The Tempest (1505), an evocative pastoral scene. His worked with softer tones, and is known for the elusive poetic quality.

He worked with his younger contemporary Titian. Titian painted much of the landscape and perhaps integrating the scene. His scenes paintings have both, religious and secular contents. But in both, he always included architectural objects, without letting them over-power the scene composition or subdue the scene characters. 

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FILIPPO CARCANO

 

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Filippo Carcano (1840-1914) was Italian Artist. He studied art at the Brera Academy in Milan. He began painting with everyday life, but shifted to drawing landscapes and other scenes, as impressed with Naturalism of School of Lombard. He captured the surroundings of Lake Maggiore and the Mottarone, mountain peaks on the border with Switzerland. In spite of rapid industrialization across Europe he remained a traditional naturalist. 

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JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER -Etching art

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James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was Britain based, American Painter. He worked in oil, watercolour, pastels and extensively practised printmaking. Whistler produced hundreds of etchings, lithographs, and dry-points. Lithographs.

Whistler followed two principles through his career, 1 Line is more important than colour and 2 Black is the fundamental colour for the tonal harmony. He sketched and painted back alleys, canals, entrance ways, and many other rarely perceived points of views. In simple black-white presentations without the use of colour, he had the craft of feeling in live atmosphere. In 1859, he lodged near the Thames, London in the docklands south of Tower Bridge and began to make etchings of the river surroundings. He rendered the distant warehouses in sharp details, but treated the closer forms broadly.

Whistler avoided sentimentality and symbolism. He was a leader in the Aesthetic Movement, promoting, writing, and lecturing on it. He professed for simpler compositions but his sketches show his way of capturing the scene directly in a well-composed manner.

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