tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post2398055457794500805..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Inness through the 1860'sStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-35880938118391650162009-08-23T19:14:55.465-04:002009-08-23T19:14:55.465-04:00Well ... I never did say that progress always mean...Well ... I never did say that progress always means better. Progress can simply further a theory, idea or mannerism. It doesn't mean better theory either: just different. One never knows where that may lead. But it does mean that we are not always repeating the past and making ourselves redundant.mariandioguardi.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963944767715466681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-15458382939854316622009-08-22T22:59:41.534-04:002009-08-22T22:59:41.534-04:00Really really enjoying these Inness posts. Thank y...Really really enjoying these Inness posts. Thank you so much.<br /><br />kevkev ferrarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509572970616136990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-46182564801970674612009-08-22T20:57:39.535-04:002009-08-22T20:57:39.535-04:00Philip:
He hit it on that one, didn't he? It i...Philip:<br />He hit it on that one, didn't he? It is an unusual shape for Inness being more elongated than was his usual practice.<br />........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-1255554300143948642009-08-22T20:55:08.309-04:002009-08-22T20:55:08.309-04:00Marian:
While there may be some who will advance t...Marian:<br />While there may be some who will advance the history of painting. I would be happy to just paint good pictures and get paid well to do it.<br />I am suspicious of the idea of "progress" in art. I don't feel for instance that our generation paints noticeably better than Innesses .<br />.......StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-14158050173178548932009-08-22T11:24:51.355-04:002009-08-22T11:24:51.355-04:00The forth Inness painting with the developed sky i...The forth Inness painting with the developed sky is so lovely- delicate and yet powerful at once. When he hit it, he really hit it.Philip Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191070779177407750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-33788412094257087022009-08-22T09:22:24.929-04:002009-08-22T09:22:24.929-04:00Winter Morning Montclair. This painting is design...Winter Morning Montclair. This painting is designed with an unusual and particular tension; the dark mass of the dead tree on the left brings the eye right out of the picture plane. The bright snow mass of white fights for attention on the right hand side. It's only the strength of the group of vertical trees and the figure that bring your eye back into the painting. I think this is one of the more interesting landscape paintings you have presented. <br /><br />These unconventional devises and design work because, as you stated, they are in relationship to everything else in the painting and they are the decisions of an expert landscape painter. This leads me to believe that as a painter (or artist if you prefer) advances, when he /she breaks conventions and design "rules" using innovative devices to get the painting to work, there is new ground being broken and a great painter is born. The history of painting advances into a new era. <br /><br />Can't wait for the next installment.mariandioguardi.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963944767715466681noreply@blogger.com