American Artists: Balancing Naturalism and Romanticism
Every art movement has its starting point; every art has a pool of artists putting foundation stones. The American world of art saw such happening in nineteenth century. In 1872 artist John Gast painted a popular scene of ‘people moving west’. It captured a view of American people at the time. That painting perhaps started an era of balancing naturalism and romanticism in the art of painting.
John Gast had painted this popular scene wherein a group of people were proceeding to the west. This was an established trend of people of America during that period. This painting was named and called as ‘Spirit of the Frontier’. It depicts the settlers moving in western direction. Here the artist had tried showing duel thing: the bubbling will of the people to progress and get some protection by the Godly beings. Showing the part of realism, too, the artist had painted one forward moving train.
After that period, the modern American painters have given more height to the art of painting. The art has gone refined artistically and technically. The paintings done by one of the American painters, Steve Assael, seem balancing two great aspects of the art: factor of naturalism and essence of romanticism. These factors adored the objects painted in his paintings; whether the objects be figures painted or the things lying in surrounding. This is also true in respect of other paintings and drawings done during this period. The work of Figurative painter Steven Assael leads us to think beyond our age-old preconceptions. His paintings challenge us to change our thinking about representing the human bodies. His vivid images point to certain distinctions between photography and drawing or painting.
The prime focus of Steve Assael was to recreate human figures as realistically possible. These figures would either be a single individual or group of persons comprising men, women and children. If we talk about his technical side of painting, he kept his palette loaded with of cool colours. He would paint objects in glowing relief, bathed in gentle beams of warm and cool light. Themes chosen by Steven Assael would often tend to be classical. His painterly prowess was unmatched during his time.
Paintings of Assael seem capturing the temporal shades that the mechanical abstractions of a camera would hardly be able to cave in. It was due to one important factor: he used ink and pencil, astounding the eyes of viewers with his unmatched technical capability. His paintings and drawing are like the pictorial proofs establishing how the artistic skill is essential weaponry for a great artist.
For reading similar articles with images, visit the following links.
About the Author
I write SHORT STORIES and articles ABOUT PAINTING.
Romantic Art
|
|
The Birth of Abstract Romanticism: Art for a New Humani $159.84 |
|
|
Nineteenth Century French Art: From Romanticism to Impr $119.71 |
|
|
NEW Nineteenth Century French Art: From Romanticism to $108.86 |
|
|
Nineteenth-Century Art: From Romanticism to Art Nouveau $72.68 |
|
|
Nineteenth-Century Art: From Romanticism to Art Nouveau $67.54 |
|
|
ROMANTICISM IN RUSSIA ART PAITING ARTIST RUSSIAN BOOK $59.95 |
|
|
History of Ukrainian arts:Baroque.Romanticism.Modernism $44.90 |
|
|
Art book on European Romanticism & Romantic painting $40.00 |
|
|
Romanticism and Art NEW by William Vaughan $29.85 |
|
|
Romanticism and Art-William Vaughan $27.24 |
