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Inspiration from Artists week 23 : Bonus artist Wynford Dewhurst.
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Welcome to week 23 bonus artist this weekend’s featured artist is Wynford Dewhurst 1864 - 1941. Wynford Dewhurst is a Manchester born impressionist artist who spent a lot of time in France and was influenced by artists such as Emile Claus , Leon Gerome and Claude Monet. There is some interesting information about him on Wikipedia that is worth reading.
I thought I would be good to introduce a British impressionist, what is interesting is his argument that impressionists painting was originally developed by Turner and several other British artists. I’m sure this statement has and will cause some discussion in many art circles it’s for this reason I suggested reading the Wikipedia article. I have select some of his work at random hopefully to show his talent , bearing in mind I have poor knowledge of this style of painting. I hope you enjoy my choices and find some to post that you particularly like , have a good weekend.
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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Well we’re not disputing that Turner was an impressionist painter, but I’ve always understood that the movement started in Paris, Claude Monet being amongst the founders, or possibly was the founder!
Needs more research perhaps!
Anyway, an interesting painter, not in the same league as Monet in my opinion but he’s produced some excellent work.
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Interesting artist, Paul, lovely work. Re the beginning of Impressionism, I’ve got a comprehensive book on Impressionism and it says that the movement started in France in the 19th century and was founded by Monet. The term ‘Impressionist’ was apparently first used as an insult to describe the work of Monet, Pissarro and others at their Paris exhibition of new paintings in 1874. Although Monet and Pissarro did say they were influenced by the work of Turner and Constable, Turner’s work was described as a Romantic Preface to Impressionism, but not credited in any way with starting the movement.
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Imported by scouse sailor’s on doubt Malish or Marlish is Arabian I believe, and was used a lot in the military has the same meaning but is a polite way of saying I really don’t care or not bothers without resulting to swearing.
It amazes me how many slang words are used commonly in both civilian life and the military.
As to the artist I did think at first that it was different artist , he was apparently well known in his day and like a lot of artists was given a hard time because of his style of painting.
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A great name, at least - none of your Freds or Harrys: I once knew a businessman named Stubley Akeroyd - a certain class of people, from a certain part of the country, had very inventive names for their children.
And on to Mr Dewhurst - he strikes me as an experimenter: I don't know enough about him to determine whether he did finally settle on a Dewhurst style; if I were being harshly critical, I'd say that he seemed a bit over fond of Ultramarine Blue, and violet - on the other hand, I liked just about all of the paintings shown here, they show the work of someone who never stopped learning and developing, which is - arguably - what we should all do. You can see elements of Pisarro, Landseer, Monet, in his paintings - maybe you'd like to see a bit more authentic Dewhurst, but you do see someone responding to the times in which he lived.
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