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Kyffin Williams - The Light and The Dark (Hardcover)
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Kyffin Williams - The Light and The Dark (Hardcover)
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In Kyffin Williams' centenary year, this monograph examines the
life and work of an artist who, over six decades from Slade student
to Royal Academician to knighthood, achieved both success and
remarkable popular appeal. Best known for his rendering of the
Welsh landscape, Williams conjured the mountains of Snowdonia with
an instinct that stemmed from knowing every inch of the terrain
since boyhood. Yet he was primarily conditioned by a European
aesthetic. His espousal of a bold and thickly impasto
painting-knife technique, using characteristic close tones, owes
much to the affinity he perceived with Vincent van Gogh, but also
with the French-Russian Nicolas de Stael, whose canvases he greatly
admired. Williams' own passionate commitment to his craft and a
restlessly creative make-up meant that his output was prolific
across different media and genres. Indeed, his portraiture was
regarded as highly as his landscapes. Featuring some of the finest
examples of an impressive oeuvre, this book - scholarly robust and
visually enticing - is essential reading for all those who
appreciate the importance of this gifted British painter.
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