tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post929666560685724279..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Inness in ItalyStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-3830386597489915732010-11-03T21:26:28.956-04:002010-11-03T21:26:28.956-04:00Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, La. has the only...Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, La. has the only impressionistic painting by Inness I have seen. It gave me hope to know that even GEORGE INNESS had truly bad experiences in his career. I love his later tonal work but not that green impressionistic attempt!timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00157028663181836282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-33365048861172955222009-08-20T22:54:07.152-04:002009-08-20T22:54:07.152-04:00Gregory:
Perhaps I should present a few in both co...Gregory:<br />Perhaps I should present a few in both color and black and white.<br />...............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-84315740678144289902009-08-20T22:52:44.183-04:002009-08-20T22:52:44.183-04:00Phillip:
You are going to get to continue with tha...Phillip:<br />You are going to get to continue with that for a while. I have almost another 30 years to cover! I hope all my readers are not Innessed out. There is a lot to learn from Innesss and no other American landscape painter can in my opinion teach the aspiring painter as many differing things.<br />.............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-26934289725783807532009-08-20T22:48:23.282-04:002009-08-20T22:48:23.282-04:00Deb:
The later Inness are tonalisyt piaintings. Th...Deb:<br />The later Inness are tonalisyt piaintings. The brown shadoes you see are common to all pre impressionist painting. Often they ar ethe ground on which the painting was done. There are Inness paintings I don't like,and some of the early ones are just OK, but I think he was Amwericas greatest painter, except perhaps for Sargent.<br />........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-17429186817209076462009-08-20T22:45:32.035-04:002009-08-20T22:45:32.035-04:00Jeff:
I did see that show. There were several very...Jeff:<br />I did see that show. There were several very early Inness paintings in it too. I saw the Metropolitan Gallery show in 1985. I looked in my catalog and it says the Met anyway, I keep remembering it as being at the National Gallery in DC.I was a big retrospective, I would love to see it again....<br />..............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-51040243547501676782009-08-20T19:15:04.224-04:002009-08-20T19:15:04.224-04:00His Italian paintings have always been interesting...His Italian paintings have always been interesting to me but for slightly different reasons.<br />I used to have a book that showed the color and the greyscale on the opposite page and it had about 4 or 5 Inness paintings in there and I have an obsession when it comes to value and I would study them for hours and never get bored.<br />I still take paintings and turn them into greyscales so that I can see the value relationships.<br />I compared his Italian paintings in greyscale to an artist named Wendy Artin who currently lives in Rome and works with mostly watercolor and is famous for her sepia tone washes. She captures those wonderful roman trees in a similar manner. A strange connectivity between them.<br />Wendy Artin is the reason I began pursuing art.Gregory Beckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840770708114257366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-24916433551493034562009-08-20T08:18:28.056-04:002009-08-20T08:18:28.056-04:00Heck, I'm getting used to my daily morning cof...Heck, I'm getting used to my daily morning coffee and Inness show. What am I going to do when this ends?<br /><br />Thanks for posting these great images. The yellows Inness put in the sky in the over-the-top monk painting are so lovely- like some yummy lemon cream pie. And the warm and cool greens playing off each other in the final painting are just the right touch. Inness had an inner poetry when he painted like that. <br /><br />Deb commented she's not crazy about some of his works. Me either, I think Inness stumbled from time to time. Much of his early work can be stiff. But so often he hit the ball right out of the part, especially once he found his stride in middle and later years.<br /><br />And it is a good thing if any of us painters find fault in the work of those who've gone before us. It's our task to do it differently and better than what we're complaining about. I've had the good fortune to have studied with some very fine artists, and yet I routinely found private disappointments in their paintings. And it helped me not just stand in their shadows.<br /><br />Overall I think what's best of all about Inness is his clear debt to the artists who preceded him, but then his ability to stake out some new territory as his work matured.Philip Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191070779177407750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-33314250381167267992009-08-20T07:27:41.959-04:002009-08-20T07:27:41.959-04:00I'm probably going to display my ignorance her...I'm probably going to display my ignorance here. Well, it won't be the first time for that!<br />It seems to me that all of Inness' works have a tonalist quality. All the darks seem to be that same dark brown. Am I just looking at it wrong, or is this really the case?<br />And, this may be heresy, but I am not crazy about some of his works.. they seem almost too stilted or something, and that one with the monk is truly bizarre. Having said that, the ones I like, I REALLY like, and just stand back in awe.<br />"slyrost" stealth coffee making.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01799016923038189074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-40180868432140059992009-08-20T02:21:36.745-04:002009-08-20T02:21:36.745-04:00Stap all these post on Inness have been great. Did...Stap all these post on Inness have been great. Did you see the show a while back, I think two years now at the Sterling Clarke on Inness? <br /><br />He has always been my favorite American painter not only of landscapes but just for pure painting at the highest level.<br /><br />Thanks for all the work your putting into this.jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03014751431677271423noreply@blogger.com