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The Art of Asher Brown Durand

13 Wednesday May 2015

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, United States

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Asher Brown Durand, Haydn's Serenade, Hudson River School, The Catskills

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The Catskills by Asher Brown Durand, 1859 (Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum)

My computer does not work well enough for me to post anything other than a picture and a few words. It has been “repaired,” but I believe I will have to replace it.

So I am sending a picture and my kindest regards. ♥

Kindred Spirits by Asher Brown Durand

Kindred Spirits by Asher Brown Durand, 1848 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Joseph Haydn
Serenade

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The Art of Alfred Thompson Bricher & Posts About the United States (2)

19 Saturday Oct 2013

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, United States

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Alfred Thompson Bricher, Barack Obama, Hudson River School, National Academy of Design, New York City, Obama, United State, William Morris Hunt

Blue Point, Long Island, by Alfred Thompson Richler

Blue Point, Long Island by Alfred Thompson Bricher

 

The Hudson River School

The United States has produced great artists. Members the Hudson River School  enjoyed landscape painting as did, for instance, members of the Barbizon School in France.

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Alfred Thompson Bricher (10 April 1837- 30 September 1908) was an American painter associated with White Mountain art and the Hudson River School. He studied at the Lowell Institute and with Albert Bierstadt, William Morris Hunt, and others. By 1858, he made art his profession. He opened a studio in Boston, but in 1868 he moved to New York City and showed “Mill-Stream at Newburyport” at the National Academy of Design.  He had first worked with oils, but ended up switching to watercolors. In 1873, he became a member of the American Watercolor Society. As did other members of the Hudson River School, Bricher painted landscapes mainly, but in the 1870s, he started to paint seascapes and these are the paintings that earned him renown.

The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century school. Therefore, Bricher was a late member. As Modern Art gained prominence, he was nearly forgotten, but he later regained notoriety as a marine painter. In the 1890s he purchased a house near the sea in the New Dorp section of Staten Island. He could view the Atlantic Ocean and Raritan Bay. He remained active until his death, in New Dorp in 1908.

 

1st List of Articles in Support of President Obama

The Art of Andrew Wyeth & Posts on the United States (1) (29 June 2012)

2nd List of Articles in Support of President Obama

“Perish if you wish; I am safe” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) (28 October 2012)
Bullying President Obama! Shame on Mr Romney (22 October 2012)
On the Second Debate, the News 21st October 2012 (21 October 2012)
Thoughts on the United States (18 October 2012)
President Obama for America (17 October 2012)
Taxes: the Freedom we Surrender (15 October 2012)
Nationhood: Watching the United States (11 October 2012)
The Voter Purge and the Folia (30 September 2012)
Sandra Fluke, I agree with you… (25 August 2012)
Resilience: From the French Revolution to the Interstate Highway System (18 July 2012)
A New Marshall Plan for the United States (18 July 2012)
A Glimpse at the Obama Years: Statesmanship (30 June 2012)
Response to Mr Limbaugh: Abstinence for All (6 March 2012
Musing on the State of Women (3 March 2012)
Mutiny in Congress: Ship them to Guantanamo (21 December 2011) 
Respect for life: on Anti-Abortion Extremism (28 October 2011)
 
Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897)
“Variations on an Original Theme”  
 
A Wintry Day, 1862

A Wintry Day, 1862

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The Art of Sanford Robinson Gifford

18 Friday Oct 2013

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, United States

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Albert Bierstadt, first American art school, Hudson River School, John Frederick Kensett, landscapes, luminism, malaria, Seascapes

Mount Chocurua, New Hampshire

Mount Chocurua, New Hampshire

A Gorge in the Mountains

A Gorge in the Mountains

Sandy Hooke,  New Jersey

Sandy Hooke, New Jersey

Kauterskill

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Sanford Robinson Gifford

The Hudson River school: the United States’ first art School

Sanford Robinson Gifford (10 July 1823 – 29 August 1880) was a member of the 19th-century American Hudson River School and, as did members of this school, he painted landscapes and seascapes.  Gifford first studied art under the direction of John R. Smith, a water-colorist and drawing-master.  He painted the scenery that surrounded him: the North-East coast of the United States, but he also travelled and studied abroad, as did many Hudson River school artists.  They were in search of scenery.  Gifford first travelled to Europe in 1855 and met Albert Bierstadt and Worthington Whittredged. Gifford was in fact close to several members of the Hudson River school, the United States’ first art school.[i]

Most members of the Hudson River school travelled not only to Europe but also to various parts of the United States.  Gifford travelled to Vermont in 1858 and spent the summer of 1867 on the New Jersey coast, at Sandy Hooke and Long Branch and, in 1870, he went to the Rocky Mountains accompanied by Worthington Whittredged and John Frederick Kensett, the most prominent member of the Hudson River school.

Meanwhile, however, in 1668, Gifford had returned to Europe and travelled to the Middle East and to Egypt.

Technique

When he travelled, Gifford made sketches and, on his return to his studio, in New York, he would enlarge his sketches into small oil paintings and then enlarge his small oil paintings into large paintings, the definitive work.  Therefore, the date given a painting does not necessarily correspond to the date the sketch was made.

During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Gifford joined the Union Army and subsequently returned to his studio in New York.

He died of malaria, in New York, at the age of 57.

Luminism

The paintings of members of the Hudson River school are associated with luminism.  Luminism resembles Impressionism in that artists attempt to capture the effect of light on landscapes and seascapes.  Light molds an object.  However, American luminism is much less suggestive than French Impressionism. The artworks of French Impressionists are at times blurred to the point of abstraction.

According to Wikipedia,

luminism  is characterized by attention to detail and the hiding of brushstrokes, while impressionism is characterized by lack of detail and an emphasis on brushstrokes. Luminism preceded impressionism, and the artists who painted in a luminist style were in no way influenced by impressionism.

As for the Encyclopædia Britannica, it describes luminism as a “late 19th-century painting style emphasizing a unique clarity of light.  It was characteristic of the works of a group of independent American painters who were directly influenced by the Hudson River school of painting.  The term, however, was not coined until 1954 by John Baur, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.”[ii]

In Britannica‘s definition, the operative words are “a unique clarity of light.”  However, members of the Hudson River were never a movement and, if they were “luminists,” it was sans le savoir, unawares.  The term did not exist in the 19th century.[iii]

Best-Known Works

Lake Nemi (1856-57)
The Wilderness (1861)
A Passing Storm (1866)
Ruins of the Parthenon (1880)
 
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[i] List of Hudson River School artists
[ii] “luminism”. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 18 Oct. 2013
<http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/351248/luminism>.
[iii] Collection of the Metropolitan Museum, NY
http://www.metmuseum.org/search-results?ft=Sanfor+Robinson+Gifford&x=8&y=6
 
A Winter Walk

A Winter Walk

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Summer Idyll
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Syria on my Mind

09 Monday Sep 2013

Posted by michelinewalker in The Middle East, United States

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a dead end, ambivalence, Asher Brown Durand, chemical weapons, Hudson River School, recent news, Russia, weapons of mass destruction

The Catskills , by Asher Brown Durand

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The Catskills (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In the Woods (Photo credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art)
 

9/11

This week, we remember the attacks of 9/11: the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and flight 93.

I was in my office.  A colleague came rushing in and pulled me to a television set.  The second tower was about to crumble and, to everyone’s horror and disbelief, it did crumble.  The person who had filmed the catastrophe had started filming before the attacks.  Therefore, when the video was replayed, we saw the first plane hit one of the towers and then people jumping out the windows.  Another plane hit the second tower.  Firefighters were now on the scene and many died when the second tower crumbled.

What does one do when one loses the one person who makes a difference in one’s life?

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Ironically, this year, the United States is facing another attack.  It did not take place on American soil but it is a serious violation of international law.

  • One cannot use chemical weapons and citizens of a nation do not attempt to exterminate fellow citizens.  What is happening in Syria is genocide.  Those are crimes against humanity and such a matter requires the attention and intervention of a united world.

This is what I am now seeing.

  • The citizens of the US oppose another war in the Near East, now called the Middle East.
  • President Obama is demonstrating “ambivalence,”  with respect to a strike.  I am quoting CNN’s Gloria Borger.
  • There is little the United Nations can do because of the presence in its midst of powerful nations that can veto decisions that could help the Syrians.  In other words, paradoxically, the UN may serve rather than hinder Assad’s regime.
  • Despite its debt, the US remains a superpower and possesses a formidable arsenal.

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  • What I know is that Syria crossed the line by using chemical weapons, i.e. weapons of mass destruction.
  • I suspect that the wars waged during a previous administration may have been interpreted as provocation or “meddling” on the part of the Middle East.
  • Given that Russia supports Assad’s regime, I am tempted to say that old habits die hard, but I could be wrong.

I will therefore conclude by stating that, in my opinion, the current situation is a dead end.  I cannot see just how a military engagement on the part of the US can be narrow, limited and targeted.  There has to be another resolution.

However, what do I know?  There is information a government cannot disclose without jeopardizing a “narrow” but possibly successful intervention in Syria.

May this be the moment when superpowers close shop?  What precisely did the historical Jesus of Nazareth mean when he said “turn the other cheek,” and what is the meaning of Leo Tolstoy‘s The Kingdom of God Is Within You (first published in Germany in 1894)?

In the News

-The UN Charter
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/09/_the_u_n_charter_is_broken_what_should_replace_it.html
-The Reluctant Salesman
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/09/the-reluctant-salesman-how-president-obama-can-win-enough-votes-on-syria.html
-Assad: “You can expect everything.”
http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/video/2013/09/09/bachar-al-assad-attendez-vous-a-tout_3473648_3218.html 
-La Russie a appelé la Syrie à mettre sous contrôle international ses armes chimiques et à les détruire.
-Russia has called on Syria to put its chemical weapons under international supervision and to destroy them.
http://www.lemonde.fr/
 

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The Art of Alfred Thompson Bricher & Posts About the United States

03 Saturday Nov 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, United States

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Alfred Thompson Bricher, Barack Obama, Hudson River School, National Academy of Design, New York City, Obama, United State, William Morris Hunt

Time and Tide, by Alfred Thompson Bricher, 1873, Dallas Museum of Art
Blue Point, Long Island, by Alfred Thompson Richer

I have been asked to compile all my articles on the United States.  Some had been compiled.  So here is half of my complete list.  Mutiny in Congress: Ship them to Guantanamo was a favorite.  For added pleasure, I thought you might enjoy a video featuring Alfred Thompson Bricher’s art.  The United States has produced great artists.  Members the Hudson  River school enjoyed landscape painting as did, for instance, members of the Barbizon School in France.

I hope to feature more paintings by the artists associated with the Hudson River school.

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1st List of Articles in Support of President Obama

Watching the US: the Collection, so far (June 29, 2012)

2nd List of Articles in Support of President Obama

“Perish if you wish; I am safe” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) (October 28, 2012)
Bullying President Obama! Shame on Mr Romney (October 22, 2012)
On the Second Debate, the News 21st October 2012 (October 21, 2012)
Thoughts on the United States (October 18, 2012)
President Obama for America (October 17, 2012)
Taxes: the Freedom we Surrender (October 15, 2012)
Nationhood: Watching the United States (October 11, 2012)
The Voter Purge and the Folia (September 30, 2012)
Sandra Fluke, I agree with you… (August 25, 2012)
Resilience: From the French Revolution to the Interstate Highway System (July 18, 2012)
A New Marshall Plan for the United States (July 18, 2012)
A Glimpse at the Obama Years: Statesmanship (June 30, 2012)
Response to Mr Limbaugh: Abstinence for All (March 6, 2012
Musing on the State of Women (March 3, 2012)
Mutiny in Congress: Ship them to Guantanamo (December 21, 2011) 
Respect for life: on Anti-Abortion Extremism (October 28, 2011)
 

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Alfred Thompson Bricher (April 10, 1837- September 30, 1908) was an American painter associated with White Mountain art and the Hudson River School.  He studied at the Lowell Institute and with Albert Bierstadt, William Morris Hunt, and others.  By 1858, he made art his profession.  He opened a studio in Boston, but in 1868 he moved to New York City and showed “Mill-Stream at Newburyport” at the National Academy of Design.  He had first worked with oils, but ended up switching to watercolors.  In 1873, he became a member of the American Watercolor Society.  As did other members of the Hudson River School, Bricher painted landscapes mainly, but in the 1870s, he started to paint seascapes and these are the paintings that earned him renown.

The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century school.  Therefore, Bricher was a late member.  As Modern Art gained prominence, he was nearly forgotten, but he later regained notoriety as a marine painter.  In the 1890s he purchased a house near the sea in the New Dorp section of Staten Island.  He could view the Atlantic Ocean  and Raritan Bay.  He remained active until his death, in New Dorp in 1908.

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