tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30196456732734102802024-03-13T09:04:05.414-07:00Classic Art GalleriaBijoy Varghesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007860537690705637noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019645673273410280.post-72899454831280983702011-06-13T12:38:00.000-07:002011-06-13T12:38:39.406-07:00Carl Larsson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>Carl Larsson</b> (May 28, 1853 – January 22, 1919) was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Sweden">Swedish</a> painter and interior designer, representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He considered his finest work to be <i>Midvinterblot</i> (<i>Midwinter Sacrifice</i>), a large wall mural now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.</span><br />
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</div>Bijoy Varghesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007860537690705637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019645673273410280.post-3775268198257807402011-06-13T12:28:00.000-07:002011-06-13T12:28:59.599-07:00Carel Fabritius<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Fabritius was born in the ten-year old Beemster polder, as the son of schoolteacher. Initially he worked as a carpenter (Latin <i>fabritius</i>). In the early 1640s he studied at Rembrandt's studio in Amsterdam, along with his brother Barent Fabritius. In the early 1650s he moved to Delft, and joined the Delft painters' guild in 1652. He died young, caught in the explosion of the Delft gunpowder magazine on October 12, 1654, which destroyed a quarter of the city, along with his studio and many of his paintings. Only about a dozen paintings have survived. According to Houbraken, his student Mattias Spoors and the church deacon Simon Decker died with him, since they were working on a painting together at the time. In a poem written by Arnold Bon to his memory, he is called Karel Faber.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Of all Rembrandt's pupils, Fabritius was the only one to develop his own artistic style. A typical Rembrandt portrait would have a plain dark background with the subject defined by spotlighting. In contrast, Fabritius' portraits feature delicately lit subjects against light-coloured, textured backgrounds. Moving away from the Renaissance focus on iconography, Fabritius became interested in the technical aspects of painting. He used cool colour harmonies to create shape in a luminous style of painting.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Fabritius was also interested in complex spatial effects, as can be seen in the exaggerated perspective of <i>A View in Delft, with a Musical Instrument Seller's Stall</i> (1652). He also showed excellent control of a heavily loaded brush, as in <i>The Goldfinch</i> (1654). All these qualities appear in the work of Delft's most famous painters, Vermeer and de Hooch; it is likely that Fabritius was a strong influence on them</div><br />
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</div>Bijoy Varghesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007860537690705637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019645673273410280.post-76306722563713685682011-06-13T11:34:00.000-07:002011-06-13T11:34:54.127-07:00Caravaggio<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio</b> (29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting</span><br />
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</div>Bijoy Varghesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007860537690705637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019645673273410280.post-8047872735205528102011-06-13T11:10:00.000-07:002011-06-13T11:10:49.825-07:00Canaletto<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>Giovanni Antonio Canal</b> (28 October 1697 – 19 April 1768<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Pedrocco_0-0" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><span>[</span></sup>) better known as <b>Canaletto</b>, was an Italian painter famous for his landscapes, or <i>vedute</i>, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Bijoy Varghesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007860537690705637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019645673273410280.post-20405808091543400092011-06-13T11:02:00.000-07:002011-06-13T11:02:57.816-07:00Camille Pissarro<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span></div>Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Courbet and Corot. He later studied and worked alongsideGeorges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.<br />
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In 1873 he helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the “pivotal” figure in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Impressionism historian John Rewald called Pissarro the “dean of the Impressionist painters", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also "by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality” Cézanne said "he was a father for me. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord," and he was also one of Gauguin's masters. Renoir referred to his work as “revolutionary”, through his artistic portrayals of the "common man", as Pissarro insisted on painting individuals in natural settings without "artifice or grandeur".<br />
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Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. As a stylistic forerunner of Impressionism, he is today considered a "father figure not only to the Impressionists" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.<br />
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</div>Bijoy Varghesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007860537690705637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019645673273410280.post-50948269772276485012011-06-13T10:46:00.000-07:002011-06-13T10:46:06.494-07:00Camille Corot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot</b> (July 17, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Bijoy Varghesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007860537690705637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019645673273410280.post-60656358476335748592011-06-13T10:11:00.000-07:002011-06-13T10:11:22.524-07:00Balthasar Klossowski de Rola<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>Balthasar Klossowski</b> (or <b>Kłossowski</b>) <b>de Rola</b> (February 29, 1908 in Paris – February 18, 2001 in Rossinière, Switzerland), best known as <b>Balthus</b>, was an esteemed but controversial Polish-French modern artist.</span><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. He insisted that his paintings should be seen and not read about, and he resisted any attempts made to build a biographical profile. A telegram sent to the Tate Gallery as it prepared for its 1968 retrospective of his works read: <small>"NO BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS. BEGIN: BALTHUS IS A PAINTER OF WHOM NOTHING IS KNOWN. NOW LET US LOOK AT THE PICTURES. REGARDS</small></div><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><b>Jan August Hendrik, Baron Leys</b> (18 February 1815 - 26 August 1869), also known as <b>Henri Leys</b>, was a Belgian painter and print maker.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Henri Leys was born and died in Antwerp. He studied with Mathieu Ignace Van Brée (1773-1839) at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp and then with his brother-in-law Ferdinand De Braekeleer (1792-1883). At the start of his career, he worked with the Belgian Romantic painter Egide Charles Gustave Wappers (1803-1874). Both artists were interested in nationalistic subjects painted in styles that owe much to the example of 16th- and 17th-century Flemish painting. In 1835 Leys went to Paris where he visited the studio of Eugène Delacroix and met Paul Delaroche. During the 1840s, Leys began painting scenes set in 16th-century Antwerp, combining details studied from life with a deliberately archaizing style reminiscent of 16th-century German painters like Albrecht Dürer and Quinten Matsys. Some of the pictures have specific historical subjects, but others are genre scenes. With these pictures, he earned a following among many younger artists in Belgium as well as a considerable reputation in France, where he won a gold medal at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1855 for his historical painting <i>The Mass of Berthal de Haze</i> (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels). In 1862 Leys was created a baron by King Leopold I. At the time of his death, he was engaged in decorating the interior of the Antwerp Town Hall with monumental frescoes depicting the city's history (1863-9). There are easel replicas of these in Brussels. Among the artists who studied with him are James Tissot and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. His best-known pupil is his nephewHenri De Braekeleer (1840-1888).</div><div><br />
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</span></h2><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">He is mentioned in Karel van Mander's <i>Schilderboeck</i>. In 1565, after completing his training with Cornelis van Dalem, Jan Mandijn, and Frans Mostaert, he traveled to Paris and Italy.He worked on wall paintings in various churches. At Rome, he became, like El Greco, a protege of Giulio Clovio. Pope Pius V appointed him court painter in 1570. He was summoned to Vienna by Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, who died soon after his arrival in 1576. But his successor Rudolf II was even more keen to employ him, and in 1581 he was appointed court painter, the court being by then having moved its seat to Prague, where he stayed until his death there in 1611, shortly before Rudolf was deposed. Rudolf arranged a wealthy marriage for him, and his house was a centre for artists in Prague.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Aegidius Sadeler, who lived in his house in Prague for some time, and Hendrik Goltzius made engravings of his paintings, spreading Spranger's fame around Europe. Spranger's paintings for Rudolf mostly depict mythological nudes in various complex poses, with some connection to the Emperor's esoteric Late-Renaissance philosophical ideas. His paintings are the most characteristic of the final phase of Northern Mannerism; by far the best collection is in Vienna. His drawings have great energy, in a very free technique.</div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Born in Haarlem, the son of a Haarlem innkeeper, Van der Helst moved to Amsterdam some time before 1636, for he was married there in that year. His first dated picture, a group portrait of the regents of the Walloon Orphanage (currently the location of <i>Maison Descartes</i> in Amsterdam), dates from 1637. It is unknown from whom he learned to paint, but in Haarlem he must have at least known the work of Frans Hals, who like him, never traveled to Italy and specialized in portraiture. Hals refused even to travel to Amsterdam to paint the lucrative <i>schuttersstukken</i>, and a few years after the trekschuit made commuting to Amsterdam possible in 1632 he attempted this in 1636 with the <i>De Magere Compagnie</i>, but gave it up and let Pieter Codde finish it. As the son of an innkeeper with ever-increasing trekschuit patrons, van der Helst would have seen immediately the importance of this and the relative value of Amsterdam above Haarlem. In any case, he moved to Amsterdam and in 1639 he won his own <i>schutterstuk</i> commission, <i>The company of Captain Roelof Bicker and Lieutenant Jan Michielsz Blaeuw</i>. In Amsterdam he may well have trained with Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Bartolomé Esteban Murillo</b> (December 31, 1617 (baptized) – April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively, realist portraits of flower girls, street urchins, and beggars constitute an extensive and appealing record of the everyday life of his times.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>Léon-Jean-Bazille Perrault</b> (20 June 1832, Poitiers - 1908, Royan) was a French painter.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">A student of William Bouguereau and François-Edouard Picot, he exhibited at the Salon from 1863 onwards, producing several works, in the academic tradition. He was famous for his <i>le petit naufragé</i> (The little shipwrecked boy, 1874) and his paintings of children</div></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kJjbQxylLf0/TXxjQemEZEI/AAAAAAAAEks/1u8UpyeSCjM/s1600/Perrault_Leon_Jean_Basile_Vanitas.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kJjbQxylLf0/TXxjQemEZEI/AAAAAAAAEks/1u8UpyeSCjM/s400/Perrault_Leon_Jean_Basile_Vanitas.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Beardsley was born in Brighton on 21 August 1872. His father, Vincent Paul Beardsley (1839–1909), was the son of a tradesman; Vincent had no trade himself, however, and instead relied on a private income from an inheritance that he received from his maternal grandfather when he was twenty-one.Vincent's wife, Ellen Agnus Pitt (1846–1932), was the daughter of Surgeon-Major William Pitt of the Indian Army. The Pitts were a well-established and respected family in Brighton, and it is widely accepted that Beardsley's mother married beneath her station. Shortly after their wedding, Vincent was obliged to sell some of his property in order to settle a claim for "breach of promise" from another woman who claimed that he had undertaken to marry her.At the time of his birth, Beardsley's family, which included his sister Mabel who was one year older, were living in Ellen's familial home at 12 Buckingham Road.</span><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">In 1883 his family settled in London, and in the following year he appeared in public as an "infant musical phenomenon," playing at several concerts with his sister. He attended Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School in 1884, before moving on to attend Bristol Grammar School, where in 1885 he wrote a play, which he performed together with other students. At about the same time his first drawings and cartoons were published in the school newspaper of the <i>Bristol Grammar School Past and Present</i>. In 1888 he obtained a post in an architect's office, and afterwards one in the Guardian Life and Fire Insurance Company. In 1891, under the advice of Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, he took up art as a profession. In 1892 he attended the classes at the Westminster School of Art, then under Professor Fred Brown.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Although Shahn attended New York University as a biology student in 1919, he went on to pursue art at City College in 1921 and then at the National Academy of Design. After his marriage to Tillie Goldstein in 1924, the two traveled through North Africa and then to Europe, where he made "the traditional artist pilgrimage." There he studied great European artists such as Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Georges Rouault, Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee. Contemporaries who would make a profound impact on Shahn’s work and career include artists Walker Evans, Diego Rivera and Jean Charlot.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Shahn was dissatisfied with the work inspired by his travels, claiming that the pieces were unoriginal. Shahn eventually outgrew his pursuit of Europeanmodern art; he, instead, redirected his efforts toward a realist style which he used to contribute to social dialogue.</div></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tLUVR4zQaLA/TXxj378rXpI/AAAAAAAAEps/FebY_DxTtoc/s1600/CAMN0ZTY.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tLUVR4zQaLA/TXxj378rXpI/AAAAAAAAEps/FebY_DxTtoc/s400/CAMN0ZTY.jpg" /></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">The 23 gouache paintings of the trials of Sacco and Vanzetti communicated the political concerns of his time, rejecting academic prescriptions for subject matter. <i>The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti</i> was exhibited in 1932 and received acclaim from both the public and critics. This series gave Shahn the confidence to cultivate his personal style, regardless of society’s art standards.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Prescott_2-0" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Shahn#cite_note-Prescott-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; white-space: nowrap;">3</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">]</span></a></sup></div></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r8ctSNkmrr0/TXxj4Dp6oYI/AAAAAAAAEp0/0Gs0a-vathI/s1600/CAZRD9PT.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r8ctSNkmrr0/TXxj4Dp6oYI/AAAAAAAAEp0/0Gs0a-vathI/s400/CAZRD9PT.jpg" /></a><br />
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</div>Bijoy Varghesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007860537690705637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019645673273410280.post-11419204754451239172011-03-23T01:24:00.000-07:002011-03-23T01:24:40.558-07:00Benjamin West<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fKE79FXAZkc/TYcxmweDAvI/AAAAAAAAE0I/vOjK9UAYZQE/s1600/west1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fKE79FXAZkc/TYcxmweDAvI/AAAAAAAAE0I/vOjK9UAYZQE/s400/west1.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Benjamin West</b>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Academy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Royal Academy">RA</a> (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="England">Anglo</a>-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="United States">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Painting">painter</a> of historical scenes around and after the time of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="American Revolution">American War of Independence</a>. He was the second president of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Academy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Royal Academy</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">London</a>, serving from 1792 to 1805 and 1806 to 1820</span> <br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">West was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Township,_Delaware_County,_Pennsylvania" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania">Springfield, Pennsylvania</a>, in a house that is now in the borough of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarthmore,_Pennsylvania" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Swarthmore, Pennsylvania">Swarthmore</a> on the campus of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarthmore_College" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Swarthmore College</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_West#cite_note-0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> as the tenth child of an innkeeper. The family later moved to <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown_Square,_Pennsylvania" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Newtown Square, Pennsylvania">Newtown Square, Pennsylvania</a>, where his father was the proprietor of the Square <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavern" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Tavern</a>, still standing in that town. West told <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt_(novelist)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="John Galt (novelist)">John Galt</a>, with whom, late in his life, he collaborated on a memoir, <i>The Life and Studies of Benjamin West</i> (1816, 1820) that, when he was a child, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native Americans</a> showed him how to make paint by mixing some clay from the river bank with bear grease in a pot. Benjamin West was an<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidact" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Autodidact">autodidact</a>; while excelling at the arts, "he had little [formal] education and, even when president of the Royal Academy, could scarcely spell" (Hughes, 70).</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">From 1746 to 1759, West worked in Pennsylvania, mostly painting portraits. While in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Lancaster, Pennsylvania</a>, in 1756, West's patron, a gunsmith named<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_(delegate)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="William Henry (delegate)">William Henry</a>, encouraged him to design a "Death of Socrates" based on an engraving in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rollin" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Charles Rollin</a>'s <i>Ancient History</i>; the resulting composition, which significantly differs from West's source, has been called "the most ambitious and interesting painting produced in colonial America."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_West#cite_note-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_(Anglican_priest)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="William Smith (Anglican priest)">Dr William Smith</a>, then the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provost_(education)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Provost (education)">provost</a> of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Philadelphia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="College of Philadelphia">College of Philadelphia</a>, saw the painting in Henry's house and decided to patronize West, offering him education and, more important, connections with wealthy and politically-connected Pennsylvanians. During this time West met <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wollaston_(painter)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="John Wollaston (painter)">John Wollaston</a>, a famous painter who immigrated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">London</a>. West learned Wollaston's techniques for painting the shimmer of silk and satin, and also adopted some of "his mannerisms, the most prominent of which was to give all his subjects large almond-shaped eyes, which clients thought very chic" (Hughes, 71).</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><br />
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: NONE;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Bijoy Varghesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007860537690705637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019645673273410280.post-30663470286527143702011-03-23T01:23:00.000-07:002011-06-13T06:43:52.264-07:00Benjamin Williams Leader<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9JlmmfkPkDc/TYcx2CB0oiI/AAAAAAAAE1w/-z4h3DsiC0M/s1600/Low_Tide_on_the_South_Coast.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="121" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9JlmmfkPkDc/TYcx2CB0oiI/AAAAAAAAE1w/-z4h3DsiC0M/s200/Low_Tide_on_the_South_Coast.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Leader was born in Worcester as Benjamin Leader Williams, the son, and first child of eleven children, of notable civil engineer Edward Leader Williams (1802–79) and Sarah Whiting (1801–88). His father was described as a "non conformist dissenter" and his mother was a Quaker - their marriage in an Anglican church resulted in them being disowned by the Society of Friends.</span><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Leader's father was a keen amateur artist - a friend of John Constable - and Benjamin would often accompany him on sketching trips along the banks of theRiver Severn His brother, also Edward Leader Williams, later became a notable civil engineer who was knighted for his work, and is now mainly remembered for designing Manchester Ship Canal - which was to become the theme of Leader's largest painting. The family eventually came to reside at "Diglis House" - now a hotel.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Leader was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Worcester, and initially worked at his father's office as a draughtsman while studying art in the evenings at the Worcester School of Design. In his free time he also did a lot of "open air" landscape painting.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">In 1854, at the age of 23, he was admitted as a student to the Royal Academy Schools in London, and, unusually, in his first year, had a picture accepted for exhibition there, "<i>Cottage children blowing bubbles</i>", which was subsequently sold to an American buyer for £50 - a large sum in those days.Subsequently his work appeared in every summer exhibition at the academy until 1922 - when Leader was 91 years old! He also had some early works exhibited at the "National Institution", Portland Place in 1857-58.</span></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Xk15KICxyk/TYcx2Qlb-fI/AAAAAAAAE14/YmPCLQFGOCA/s1600/Leader_Benjamin_Williams_A_Fine_Day_on_the_Thames.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Xk15KICxyk/TYcx2Qlb-fI/AAAAAAAAE14/YmPCLQFGOCA/s400/Leader_Benjamin_Williams_A_Fine_Day_on_the_Thames.jpg" /></a> <br />
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