Author: A. J. Finberg
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Written by an art historian, the following book documents the development of Britain's landscape painting that uses watercolors as a medium. It also discusses the works of the following artists: J.M.W. Turner, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Peter de Wint.
Author: Alexander Joseph Finberg
Publisher:
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Category : Landscape painters
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Author: Andrew Wilton
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791318790
Category : Watercolor painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The revolution in watercolours of the later eighteenth century and its Victorian aftermath is acknowledged to be one of the greatest triumphs of British art. Its effect was to transform the modest tinted drawing of the topographer into a powerful and highly flexible means of expression for some of the Romantic era's greatest artists, among them Thomas Girtin, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. The painters of the next generation were no less ambitious, and the range of subject-matter and technical inventiveness that was sustained for much of the Victorian period was to set a standard in watercolour painting that was without equal abroad. In this magnificently illustrated survey of the great age of British watercolours, Andrew Wilton and Anne Lyles trace the development of attitudes to landscape and to the human figure in the landscape from 1750 to 1880. They show how once the traditional pen and ink drawing and its augmented washes of colour had been abandoned in order to paint directly in watercolours without pen outlines, the way was open for the powerful Romantic landscapes of the following decade and beyond, many of which were painted in the wild mountainous regions of Wales and Scotland. During the nineteenth century, as the gilt-framed exhibition watercolour began to challenge the long-established oil painting in terms of size and in brilliance of colour and effect, the range of subject-matter was broadened to include scenes of country and town life from every part of Britain and, increasingly, from the Continent too. By mid-century the Near East was attracting many of the greatest Victorian watercolourists, including J. E. Lewis, David Roberts and Edward Lear. Other leadingVictorians who regularly worked in watercolour include the Pre-Raphaelite painters John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, and the American-born James McNeill Whistler, all of whom are included in this book.
Author: Matthew Hargraves
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116586
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Paul Mellon (1907--1999) assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. In his memoirs he wrote of their “beauty and freshness… their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” This catalogue celebrating the centenary of Mellon's birth features eighty-eight outstanding watercolors from the fifty thousand works of art on paper with which he endowed the Yale Center for British Art. The selection spans the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-18th century to its apogee in the mid-19th. These works highlight the diversity of British watercolors, showcasing both landscape and figurative works by some of the principal artists working in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, and J. M.W. Turner.
Author: Kim Sloan
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500026403
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A fresh perspective on British landscape drawing in the Victorian and Modern eras. The attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey not merely the physical properties of a landscape but also its emotional and spiritual impact - landscape as 'places of the mind', as the critic Geoffrey Grigson put it - is the focus of this fascinating new study of British watercolours produced between 1850 and 1950. Drawing on the British Museum's impressive collection, this book explores artists' spiritual quests to capture the essence of landscape and convey a sense of place. Artists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries drew on earlier traditions but developed and extended the genre through their imaginative, personal responses to the artistic, cultural and social upheavals of the time. The book includes works by Victorian artists Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Poynter and by many well known twentieth-century artists, such as John and Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore, some of which have never previously been published.
Author: Alexander Joseph Finberg
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Category : Landscape painting, British
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Paul Sandby
Publisher: Royal Academy Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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First published on the occasion of Paul Sandby (1731-1809): picturing Britain, a bicentenary exhibition, first shown at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 25 July-18 October, 2009.
Author: Joseph Mallord William Turner
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Author: Katharine Baetjer
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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This aptly named volume brings together 91 masterpieces in oil and watercolor by 44 artists, the zenith of England's sublime landscape tradition. These beautiful, innovative works represent the most talented artists of the genre -- including Gainsborough, Wright of Derby, Turner, and Constable.
Author: A. J. Finberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781332589470
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Excerpt from The Development of British Landscape Painting in Water-Colours The direct bearing of these remarks on our immediate subject-matter will, I hope, be evident to all who are familiar with the literature of the history of British water-colour painting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
