Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940 by George Heard Hamilton

By George Heard Hamilton

This publication strains the origins and development of recent artwork, assessing the intrinsic characteristics of person works and describing the social forces in play. It covers numerous components together with works of Impressionism, Cubism, Constructivism and Surrealism.

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His love of with a Griffon of 1869 (Sao Paulo) and of people, and his devotion to most beautiful of all his art from first life woman as the created beings, informed to last, and for the expression of these feelings he had, even by 1 880, developed a pictorial technique exquisitely adjusted to the representation of sumptuous materials and flesh. With Claude Monet he had worked towards the Impressionist dissolution of form through the vibration of light, but he delicate is apparent at But by 1881 he was deliberately searching for some way to control the flux of sensation.

Claude Monet: Poplars on the Epte, c. 35 1891. Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland whole they exhibit the tendencies of Monet's art at this it was time and prepare the direction which to take for the rest of his life. The most conspicuous element was the treatment of the surface earlier as a two-dimensional pattern. The snapshot view of town or country with a by superimposed bands of meadow, water, shore, distant conical hills, haystacks and sky punctuated by or swept by the linear arabesques of trees.

Towards the where the canvas noticeably un- is finished, the planes of colour are less securely anchored within their contours and sometimes seem that to shift we where and move in space. We can believe are looking into one of those situations Cezanne found planes agonizingly the difficult, control and also of his at the LATER IMPRESSIONISM 4* kind of pictorial structure that stirred the when works imaginations of the Cubists these were seen in quantity in 1907. more influential source for An like even Cubism may have been the exhibition of Cezanne's water-colours at Bernheim-Jeune's the same year.

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