FYODOR ALEKSEYEV

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Fyodor Alekseyev (1753-1824) was a Russian landscape painter. His father was a guardian of the Academy of Sciences. He studied initially at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. In 1773, he was sent to Venice to specialize in decorative painting.

After Venice training, his early life was of struggle, spent as a decorator and set painter. But he learnt the craft of Landscape painting. He began to practice Plein air painting. Between 1793 and 1800, He visited cities and towns of southern Russia, painting local scenes and buildings. His work reflected the atmospheric warmth of Venice, rather than the cold and drab climate of Russian winters.

Alekseyev, contemporaries often called him the ‘Russian Canaletto’, in recognition of his masterful vedute.

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VALDEMAR KORNERUP

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Valdemar Kornerup (1865-1924) was a Danish Painter of Interior spaces. He was the son of a skilled lithographer, who initiated him in the Art field. He, during, 1881-85, worked at the Academy of Arts. He, in 1887, made a debut at Charlottenborg, with two pictures. Kornerup, in 1898, studied in Norway, where he mainly stayed. He travelled in France and Italy, in 1890, he was in Italy, Spain and Greece and in 1895 again in Italy.

He was acknowledged as one of the last great folk life painters in Denmark. Even when the painting styles were changing across Europe, he continued to paint on Danish old school Art that idealized, romanticized and celebrated the simple homely interiors.

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GIUSEPPE ABBATI

 

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Giuseppe Abbati (1836-1868) was an Italian painter of en plein air scenes of landscapes and Interiors. Abbati belonged to the group known as the Macchiaioli. He received early training from his father, mostly of architectural interiors.

Abbati ’s paintings have a bold treatment of light effects, aided by macchia (the brushstroke). The bright and contrasting colours reflect the Impressionism. He painted very wide horizontal landscapes, as commonly favoured by the Macchiaioli group. He also painted bright exteriors, contrasted by dark interiors, in narrow vertical format, framed through doors, windows and gates. 

 

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