tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post1950278695704296169..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: A definition of impressionismStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-91394166539466690832010-02-22T22:16:42.827-05:002010-02-22T22:16:42.827-05:00Philip:
Had you heard that before. It is very Bost...Philip:<br />Had you heard that before. It is very Boston school. It is not something you will hear much out there today.<br />...............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-60036939575366138442010-02-22T22:15:09.977-05:002010-02-22T22:15:09.977-05:00Jeff:
Yes Hals would be a great example.
............Jeff:<br />Yes Hals would be a great example.<br />............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-20170826250343362952010-02-22T22:14:13.607-05:002010-02-22T22:14:13.607-05:00Darren:
That's where I learned it about 35 yea...Darren:<br />That's where I learned it about 35 years ago. I didn't know it was online though. That's great.<br />............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-31784476692107497842010-02-22T22:13:08.041-05:002010-02-22T22:13:08.041-05:00Jeremy:
I am used, therefore I am useful.
...........Jeremy:<br />I am used, therefore I am useful.<br />................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-37220784645744708702010-02-22T22:12:10.681-05:002010-02-22T22:12:10.681-05:00Frank;
What is.....golf?
...........StapeFrank;<br />What is.....golf?<br />...........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-23258176050111565522010-02-22T22:11:41.980-05:002010-02-22T22:11:41.980-05:00Tim:
Did I say that?
I have no idea when or what ...Tim: <br />Did I say that?<br />I have no idea when or what I meant.<br />........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-26783515919307070752010-02-22T22:10:35.062-05:002010-02-22T22:10:35.062-05:00Bill:
You are welcome.
........StapeBill:<br />You are welcome.<br />........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-83595554133281492432010-02-22T22:10:08.110-05:002010-02-22T22:10:08.110-05:00Willek;
Ives is still doing his thing. I guess I a...Willek;<br />Ives is still doing his thing. I guess I am not surprised that people are still reading his writing.<br />........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-7647911404179100222010-02-22T22:08:54.753-05:002010-02-22T22:08:54.753-05:00Richard:
Ives is, of course, where I learned that ...Richard:<br />Ives is, of course, where I learned that description.<br />.................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-85736565400536705102010-02-22T22:08:04.529-05:002010-02-22T22:08:04.529-05:00Simone;
John was his brother and mostly did marine...Simone;<br />John was his brother and mostly did marine art.<br />.........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-38878952196171471742010-02-22T22:07:12.649-05:002010-02-22T22:07:12.649-05:00Tom;
It of course is of no interest to me what an...Tom; <br />It of course is of no interest to me what an artist intends, only what he expresses.The <br />Pissaros seem plenty complex to me.<br />................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-76338205622914469452010-02-22T18:03:10.370-05:002010-02-22T18:03:10.370-05:00Stape I like your posing of two fundamentally diff...Stape I like your posing of two fundamentally differing attitudes toward realist painting. It's a simple way of putting it, yet it says a lot. <br /><br />Probably most of us realist painters have some of both in us to varying degrees. I know I love both ways of working and have had great success and some miserable failures working in each of these modes.Philip Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191070779177407750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-55518256811750837022010-02-22T17:09:00.373-05:002010-02-22T17:09:00.373-05:00Excellent post. This is one the most simple and st...Excellent post. This is one the most simple and straight forward explanations I have read in a long time. Well done. <br />I would include Frans Hals in the 17th century painters who influenced these painters.<br /><br /><br />I think Paxton is one of the most underrated American painters, his work is amazing, subtle and full of control. His drawing is flawless.<br /><br />Benson is also another underrated painter. I was just looking at the two beauties that the MFA has here in Boston the other day.<br /><br />The Paxton you picked Stape is one great painting. I need to see this in person.jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03014751431677271423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-69212767147282582072010-02-22T14:02:47.227-05:002010-02-22T14:02:47.227-05:00Great post Stape!
Gammell, in his books, The Bost...Great post Stape!<br /><br />Gammell, in his books, The Boston Painters (like willek said) and the Twilight of Painting as well as in his monographs of Bunker and Paxton outlines this idea as well.<br /><br />R.A.M. Stevenson (student of Carlous-Duran) also discusses some of this in his book, The Art of Velasquez, from the late 1800's. And it's free on Google books.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05566296542876598698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-41580370937810458412010-02-22T13:50:02.095-05:002010-02-22T13:50:02.095-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05566296542876598698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-43873614336931868772010-02-22T13:14:18.992-05:002010-02-22T13:14:18.992-05:00You just cleared up a lot of my questions about im...You just cleared up a lot of my questions about impressionism. Thanks!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579185594957855023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-10012502931878006172010-02-22T10:42:36.807-05:002010-02-22T10:42:36.807-05:00art is like golf...the approach is everything..
i...art is like golf...the approach is everything..<br /><br />interesting approach and dittoAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853491825832197697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-67171988979807467222010-02-22T10:09:46.855-05:002010-02-22T10:09:46.855-05:00Stape,
On a completely different subject. I wan...Stape,<br /> On a completely different subject. I wanted to tell you one of the most important things I have learned from you. It was one of those breakthrough moments , and something everyone else will think duh but nonetheless important to me.<br /> Reading one of your posts you said and I paraphrase here "you must paint everything in a painting" meaning every thing in a painting is as important as the focal point. You cant give more attention to one part over another. It won't paint itself. Thanks for that!!<br />In a recent painting I was having trouble with a reflection in water and I wasn't to worried about it thinking it's not to important and will paint itself. That's when it hit me It won't paint itself. Duh!Tim Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13560372964672506353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-63986067820890451442010-02-22T09:37:07.116-05:002010-02-22T09:37:07.116-05:00Thanks Stape! I'm learning stuff!Thanks Stape! I'm learning stuff!billspaintingmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18343383719352968590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-63107322081223983942010-02-22T08:18:08.733-05:002010-02-22T08:18:08.733-05:00Very interesting, Stape. I am just now in the proc...Very interesting, Stape. I am just now in the process of reading Ives Gammell's book about the Boston Painters. I'm about half way through and two passages are relavent. One in the first chapter where he describes the way impressionist painting keys on the lower values in a scene. Those values are capable of being matched with paint, he says. The second is his description of Frank Bensons two basic impressionst tennents he repeated to each entering class, eg: painting the scene as the whole is seen in the "instant" and secondly, the colors must be seen in relation to each other and not individualistically.willekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05626541339963605016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-47632786508090506852010-02-22T08:05:35.931-05:002010-02-22T08:05:35.931-05:00Nice post.
This is a good topic. I think Vermeer a...Nice post.<br />This is a good topic. I think Vermeer and Velazquez are impressionists as well. <br />A real good description of impressionism is in the Gammell book on Dennis Miller Bunker. One of the better descriptions I have found. That is a tough book to locate, but some libraries have it.Richard J. Luschek IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17391295820585129843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-41038396305252635212010-02-22T07:34:00.702-05:002010-02-22T07:34:00.702-05:00Very good post. Never really thought that the mos...Very good post. Never really thought that the most distinguishing aspect of impressionism is painting from life using one's observation. Seems obvious. I like the Benson painting. I recently procured a book on his sporting art, autographed by the author (not Benson). Enjoyable stuff. Have not been able to determine for certain if John Prentis Benson was his brother.Robert J. Simonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06799208093956328662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-85909030804050824392010-02-22T00:11:45.828-05:002010-02-22T00:11:45.828-05:00I would definitely agree with that. It’s like the...I would definitely agree with that. It’s like the Vernon Blake quote, it is more important what the artist is after, their intentions, and if the intentions are to portray the effects and the visual truth of appearances, that puts a lot of artist in the impressionist camp. . Their intentions are closely aligned even if their working methods and styles are different, as you stated in the beginning of your post.<br /><br />Is it just me or does the Pissarro paintings look simpler less complex then the American paintings in the your pervious post?Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04641223414745777056noreply@blogger.com