It's About Time : Landscapes

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Swiss artist Félix Edouard Vallotton 1865-1925 paints rather non-traditional andscapes

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1913 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Rising Tide

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1895 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Moonlight

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1915 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) the sheaves

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1921 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) View of Cagne from Horseback

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1922 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Part of the Town of Pont-Audemer

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1917 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Verdun

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1920 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Alyscamps morning sun

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1923 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) A Vallon Landscape

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1922 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Family of Trees

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1925 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Landscape Rocamadour

Sunday, April 20, 2014

The countryside comes alive with Stanley Spencer 1891-1959

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Cottages at Burghclere

Stanley Spencer allows reality to dominate in his silent landscapes & intimate portraits. My landscapes, he once wrote, are places waiting for their figures. "My landscapes compared with my other work are carried out with a hard relentless persistence and dogged determination to go through with it, which gives them a competent and finished but lifeless and hard look," he complained. Once Spencer injects figures into his landscapes, they become stories & reality gets distorted. "Distortion arrives from the effort to see something in a way that will enable [the painter] to love it." Stanley Spencer, out of Sermons by Artists (1934)