FRANCES HODGKINS

 

SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture by Gautam Shah

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Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) was a New Zealand-based Landscape painter. She had art education in the local Dunedin School of Art. She also became an art teacher in England for a while. She frequently visited Europe and her stay in England remained most important one.

Frances  was a modernist drawing simple abstract forms. She used the forms to build up the space and than exploited them with contracting colours. She, in her painting handled many different subjects. Her handling of people (including local Maoris) in groups and as single portraits are remarkable.

Frances had a professional life spanning fifty-six years, and she was a prolific artist. She used oil paints, charcoal and watercolour. She mixed the conventions of still life painting landscape painting.

 

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Select List of Blogs on COLOUR PERCEPTION

Select list of my Blogs on PERCEPTION of COLOURS

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These blogs were published at my site, "Design Synopsis" (https://designsynopsis.wordpress.com/) These blogs relate to PERCEPTION of COLOURS .

I have avoided listing blogs relating to specific colours. I have, also not included Longer Blogs published on my other three sites. 

 

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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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