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“LOVE ART. OF ALL LIES, IT IS THE LEAST UNTRUE”
Gustave Flaubert
THE GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH
PAINTING ( the 17th- 19th centuries)
William Hogarth
Joshua Reynolds
Thomas Gainsborough
Joseph Turner
John Constable
“The Golden Age” of English Painting
The period from Hogarth to Constable and Turner, that is the period between the 1730 & the 1830, is considered to be the Golden Age of English painting. Never in any other period did England contribute so much to the history of world art.
English art had some peculiarities. Right from the beginning English artists worked almost only for some private person. That’s why portrait painting was the leading national genre of the English school. The landscape painting began to attract the attention of painters in the middle of the 18 th century, but didn’t win the love of the public for a long time. It began to flourish in the 19th century. As for genre-painting it became popular at the end of the 18th century. Brilliant artists of that time made English painting one of the famous among the Europian art schools.
William Hogarth
The first great English painter who raised British pictorial art to a high level
Famous for so-called “modern moral subjects”
A humorist and satirist
Harmonious in colouring
Capable and direct in theme & composition
The Marriage –a-la-ModeMarriage Contract
Marriage-a-la-ModeShortly After Marriage
The Graham Children
Shrimp Girl
Thomas Gainsborough
The purest lyricist
A brilliant out-door portrait painter
Portraits are inseparable from landscapes
The Blue Boy
The Mr and Mrs Hallet Morning Walk
Mr and Mrs Andrews
Mrs Thomas Hibbert
Joshua ReynoldsPortraitistConvincing likenessDenied static portraitsA fine colouristA master of composition
The Archers
Simplicity Dawson
Love Me Love My Dog
John Constable
Affection for nature
An acute observer of nature
Close to Impressionism
A notable treatment of skies
The Deadham Valley
A Flowerpiece
The Haywain
The Malvernhill
Stonehenge
On The Coast
The Sky
Joseph Turner(1775-1851)
A genius seascape painterReveals the grand beauty of the seaThe dynamic force and movementA ship was a living creature to him
The Shipwreck
Fishermen At Sea
After the Shipwreck
Misty Morning
The Fighting Temeraire (The Last Voyage)
The Funeral in the Sea
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