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Tonalism _Color-Light_Il colore-luce ✨🌿
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"Green and Blue: The Dancer," James Abbott McNeill Whistler, c. 1893.
Whistler (1834-1903) was famous for disdaining moral didacticism in painting; he believed in art for art's sake. Which is why the famous painting of his mother, being viewed as a sentimental tribute, would infuriate him; it wasn't, it was just an exercise in color.
When he painted this, he was living in Paris and was at the top of his career, doing commissions for many wealthy collectors as well as winning the esteem of many critics as well. (Except famous art critic John Ruskin, who gave a Whistler painting a derisive review, prompting Whistler to sue for libel...he won, but only a tiny sum.)
One of his fascinations in this period was the female form in diaphanous drapery, caught in dramatic poses. This worked well for him, experimenting with color and tone, while paying tribute to Greek and Japanese art, which he loved.
From the Art Institute of Chicago.
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"Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Chelsea," James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1871.
Whistler (1834-1903) was a highly influential and famous painter, although it would infuriate him to know he was most famous for that over-familiar painting of his mother....because it's regarded as a portrait of motherhood, while he intended it only to be a study of shapes and colors. Really.
That's something about Whistler's art that many modern folks struggle with. He was a big proponent of the Aesthetic movement, preaching "art for art's sake". Many scenes like this weren't intended to be landscapes or capturing a moment in time...they were explorations of color and form. They were meant to be beautiful, and not teach a lesson or have a message.
He was known as a Tonalist, an art movement that branched off from Impressionism, and was more about capturing form and color.
From the Tate Modern, London.
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Thomas Dewing💫
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My job is in the new issue of the magazine ... #tonalism. #tonalist #tonalistlandscapepaintings #landscape. #painting #art #artcollector #artoftheday #artvsartist #artlover #paintingbuyers #artbuyers #artgallery #acrylicpainting #oilpainting
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Thomas Dewing💫
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"Youth," Arthur F. Mathews, c. 1917.
Mathews (1860-1945) was an American Tonalist painter who was also one of the founders of the American Arts and Crafts Movement.
Tonalism was a style that was dominated by neutral hues or depicting scenes that were misty or with a colored atmosphere; it was crowded out by Impressionism and Modernism. The Arts and Crafts Movement, which included both fine art and decorative art, was all about artisanal, handcrafted works in natural materials, rejected mass-produced items by growing industries.
An inhabitant of San Francisco, he was a director of the California School of Design. After the famous earthquake and fire, he opened a furniture store with his own designs, and was quite an influence on the city's rebuilding, painting a number of murals in various public buildings.
And it's summer! Schools are letting out in my area...I can imagine the kids want to dance like this...
From the Oakland Museum of California.
#Art #AmericanArt #ArthurMathews #Tonalism #ArtsAndCrafts #SanFrancisco
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"The Garland," Thomas Wilmer Dewing, c. 1916.
Dewing (1851-1938) was an American artist, known mostly for his portraits of aristocratic women, mostly in moody or dreamlike settings, and engaged in activities removed from the viewer. Some paintings seem to interact with you when you look at them; Dewing's do not.
There's disagreement about Dewing; some feel his women are showing their independence by actually DOING things, and communicating with each other. Others feel he uses women only as set pieces, as human still lifes. I like Dewing myself, but more for the mood his paintings give me, rather than anything they're portraying or saying. The hazy, dreamlike feel suits the vibe of being awake just before the sun rises, when everything is huge and soft and blurry...and they kind of suit the Edwardian, Merchant-Ivory, Pre-Raphaelite mood I get into when spring comes.
From the National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Collection, Washington, DC. (Yes, it's not Asian. It hung in the Freer Gallery, which was a mix of Asian art with Dewing and Whistler, so it was included.)
#Art #AmericanArt #WomenInArt #ThomasWilmerDewing #Dreamlike #Tonalism
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Heavily textural landscapes by Henry Ward Ranger. For more images, links & info, see my Lines and Colors post: http://linesandcolors.com/2024/01/29/henry-ward-ranger/ #art #painting #landscapepainting #tonalism #americanpainting #19thcentrypainting #henrywardranger