By Kevin J. Avery, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Franklin Kelly, Heidi Applegate
Sanford Robinson Gifford was once a number one Hudson River college artist. His love of nature first surfaced as a formative years transforming into up in Hudson, ny, and, along with his admiration for the works of Thomas Cole, encouraged him to turn into a panorama painter. encouraged to boot by way of J.M.W. Turner and through journeys to Europe within the 1850s, Gifford's paintings was once termed "air painting", for he made the ambient gentle of every scene - colour-saturated and atmospherically enriched - the foremost to its expression. Gifford was once a founding father of The Metropolitan Museum of paintings. on the time of his demise, he was once so esteemed via the recent York paintings international that the Museum fastened an exhibition of his paintings - its first accorded an American artist - and released a Memorial Catalogue that for almost a century remained the important resource at the artist. This quantity beneficial properties essays studying Gifford's place within the Hudson River tuition, his Catskill and Adirondack topics, his consumers, and his adventures as a traveler either at domestic and in a foreign country. greater than 70 of the artist's best-known sketches and work are mentioned and reproduced in color.
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Indd 57 57 5/16/11 4:10:25 PM 3 is placed on top and a brayer is used to remove any air bubbles. are cut, punched and ripped forward to reveal a layered edge, and of the mixed-media piece, adding depth and dimension. Frisket is backward to show a more deckled edge. The collage pieces are applied to mask off the facial areas. Creating the Collage Printmaking paper, bristol board and various paper ephemera Using a painting knife, acrylic gesso is applied to the lower sides adhered to the surface using PVA glue and a brush.
There are almost no beneath, the excavated work reveals a level of pictorial limitations to what can be done to add texture, depth and and psychological depth that expands the limits of repre- dimension to the surface of an artistic working ground. sentational, narrative interpretation to encompass a more metaphorical approach to picture making. tience. Once drawing, painting and other mediums are introduced into the mix, the multilayered surface is enlivened with newfound possibilities. Incorporating Collage Collage also offers intriguing effects when it comes to Challenging Conventional Approaches building the visual density and psychological impact of By challenging what is possible not only in spatial acrobatics but also in visual communications, artists are expanding the boundaries of visual expression, introduc- Title: Self Awareness Size: 30¼" × 21¼" × 2 3/8" (77cm × 54cm × 6cm) Mediums: acrylic, oil, ink and graphite Materials: textured paper, tissue, ephemera, dried flower, gold painted leaf, decorative metal accents and metal button Techniques: collage, assemblage, dripping, sanding, scraping, peeling back, painting knife, tape resist and type transfer Surfaces: linen canvas over Masonite and board with wooden framework ing alternative approaches in handling both form and content.
The complementary color scheme out the perimeters of the mixed-media piece. The alludes to the setting of the sun, when the light fades perfectly symmetrical balance of the facial features and darkness takes reign, creating a dynamic inter- and mask juxtaposed against the more cacophonic play between life’s often paradoxical forces. Although environment is highly significant, as it conveys the the eyes are astute sensory filters, they are not perfect importance of maintaining one’s balance amidst the interpreters of reality, as perception can often be chaos of life.