Richard Parkes Bonington 'On the pleasure of painting'
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Richard Parkes Bonington 'On the pleasure of painting'
Yale Center for British Art ; Yale University Press, 1991
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- : softbound
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"Published to accompany an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (13 November 1991-19 January 1992) and at the Petit Palais, Paris (5 March 1992 -17 May 1992)"--T.p. verso
"The exhibition and catalogue sponsored by United Technologies Corporation"
Includes bibliographical references (p. 308) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828) was prehaps the most important British landscape painter of his era after Turner and Constable. Although his career spanned less than 10 years, his dazzling virtuosity propelled him immediately to the forefront of the Romantic movement in both France and England. Even after his early death his art continued to influence decades of French artists and critics, most notably Delacroix, Corot and Baudelaire. This illustrated book is a study of Bonington and also a comprehensive survey of his works. In the first half of the book, Patrick Noon discusses Bonington's life and work, focusing on the important role he played in the international romantic movement, defining the unique attributes and development of his style, and offering an interpretive analysis of his art. This section is illustrated with over 60 works by Bonington, by the old masters he admired, and by many of his contemporaries. The second half of the book consists of colour reproductions of 140 of Bonington's paintings, water-colours and prints as well as 25 works by French and English artists with whom he was most closely associated.
The works of art are accompanied by discussions of chronology, attribution, dossible influence and meaning.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 19th- and 20th-century critical reaction to Bonington's achievement
- formative years - family background and early training in Nottingham and Calais
- "L'Anglais" and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, his relationship with Baron Gros
- the search for a metier - exploration of and eventual retreat to Normandy and Picardy
- creative printmaking as a vehicle of self-promotion
- his relationship with F. L. Francia
- the first oil paintings - the significance of their stylistic and thematic novelty
- his "naturalism" defined in the context of contemporary British painting
- the triumph at the Salon of 1824
- London and J. M. W. Turner - his relationship with the premier landscape painters of French Romanticism - Paul Huet, Eugene Isabey and Camille Corot
- Bonington and Delacroix
- the "gothicism" of the first history paintings
- Shakespeare's Verona and Byron's Venice - landscapes for the literati
- the final two years - history painting, Hazlitt, the Arsenal Circle, and the politics of "colour locale"
- a review of Bonington's patrons
- his legacy in France and England. Part 2 The catalogue.
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