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True to Nature - Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780-1870 (Hardcover)
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True to Nature - Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780-1870 (Hardcover)
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This lavish catalogue presents sketches made en plein air between
the end of the eighteenth century and late nineteenth century. It
accompanies a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art,
Washington (USA), the Fondation Custodia (France) and the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK). In the eighteenth century the
tradition of open-air painting was based in Italy, Rome in
particular. Artists came from all over Europe to study classical
sculpture and architecture, as well as masterpieces of Renaissance
and Baroque art. During their studies, groups of young painters
visited the Italian countryside, training their eyes and their
hands to transcribe the effects of light on a range of natural
features. The practice became an essential aspect of art education,
and spread throughout Europe in the nineteenth century. This
exhibition focuses on the artists' wish to convey the immediacy of
nature observed at first hand. Around a hundred works, most of them
unfamiliar to the general public, will be displayed. The artists
represented include Thomas Jones, John Constable, J.M.W. Turner,
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Achille-Etna Michallon, Camille
Corot, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Johan Thomas Lundbye,
Vilhelm Kyhn, Carl Blechen, Johann Martin von Rohden, Johann
Wilhelm Schirmer, Johann Jakob Frey, among others. The sketches
demonstrate the skill and ingenuity with which each artist quickly
translated these first-hand observations of atmospheric and
topographical effects while the impression was still fresh. The
exhibition and the catalogue will be organized thematically,
reviewing, as contemporary artists did, motifs such as trees,
rocks, water, volcanoes, and sky effects, and favourite
topgraphical locations, such as Rome and Capri. The catalogue will
present numerous unpublished plein air sketches, and contains
original scholarship on this relatively young field of art history.
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