Презентация на тему: Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds

Thomas Gainsborough Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Thomas Gainsborough

Christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788

• born in Sudbury, Suffolk;

• was a prominent British portrait and landscape painter;

• the son of John Gainsborough, a cloth merchant;

• he soon evinced a marked inclination for drawing;

• had no special education in painting in Italy;

• was called a self-taught artist;

• English countryside as a background;

• started using broken brush strokes;

• used the colour scheme where green, gray and blue predominate;

• realistic style;

• had no pupils but many successes followers;

‘ Robert Andrews and Mary, his Wife’

‘ The Morning Walk’

• an oil painting;

• full-length portrait;

• arranged symmetrically in a vertical format;

• the sitters are represented standing against an English landscape background;

• the colour scheme where blue, gray and green are prevailing;

• lyrical and romantic in tone and atmosphere

‘ Duchess of Beaufort’

• an oil painting;

• half-length portrait;

• arranged symmetrically in a pyramid and vertical formats;

• the sitter is represented sitting;

• the brilliant colour scheme where blue and gray predominate;

• the sitter’s contours are emphasized purposely;

• lyrical and poetic in tone and atmosphere

‘ Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan’

• an oil painting;

• full-length portrait;

• arranged asymmetrically in a vertical format;

• the sitter is represented sitting against the landscape background;

• we can divide the picture space diagonally;

• the brilliant colour scheme where blue, green and gray predominate;

• the sitter and the background merge into a single entity;

• a marvelous sense of colour and composition;

‘ The Painter’s Daughters Teasing a Cat’

• an oil painting;

• half-length portrait;

• arranged symmetrically in a vertical format;

• the sitters are represented against an open sky;

• the colour scheme where blue, and gray are prevailing;

• Gainsborough combined form and colour into harmonious unity;

• the colours are restful, hot and delicate;

• moving and lyrical in tone and atmosphere

Sir  Joshua Reynolds

• 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792

- Sir Joshua Reynolds was born in Plympton, Devon; - was an influential, fashionable English painter of the 18 th century; - was very well educated in art; spent 3 years in Italy; - posed the figures against the traditional Italian background; - the color scheme is classical where red, brown and yellow tones predominate; - used smooth brush strokes;

- highly-elevated style;

- painted as many as 3 thousand

portraits;

- was the first President of the

Royal Academy of Art;

- painted for the King and was

knighted by George III;

-had many pupils and

followers.

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‘ Miss Nelly O'Brien’

• oil on canvas portrait;

• arranged symmetrically in a pyramid and vertical format;

• the sitter is represented sitting;

• a low-keyed color scheme where cool, restful and hot colors predominate;

• the sitter and the background merge into a single entity;

• contours emphasized purposely;

• lyrical and poetic in tone and atmosphere

‘ The Young Hair’

• oil on canvas portrait;

• arranged symmetrically in a vertical format;

• the sitter is represented sitting;

• the brilliant color scheme where brown and yellow predominate;

• the sitter and the background merge into a single entity;

• contours emphasized purposely;

• lyrical and romantic in tone and atmosphere

‘ Colonel Tarleton’

-oil painting;

-a full-length portrait;

-a low-keyed color scheme where cool, restful, hot and soft colors predominate;

-arranged symmetrically in a vertical format;

-the sitter is represented standing;

-contours emphasized purposely;

-a marvelous sense of color and composition;

-an unsurpassed masterpiece

‘ Lady Elizabeth Delme and Her Children’

-oil painting;

-a family group full-length portrait;

-arranged symmetrically in a pyramid and vertical format;

-the sitter’s contours are emphasized purposely;

-traditional Italian background;

-a low-keyed color scheme where cool, restful, hot and soft colors predominate;

-lyrical and poetic in tone and atmosphere;

-an unsurpassed masterpiece

‘ The Strawberry Girl’

-oil on canvas portrait;

-arranged symmetrically in a vertical format;

-the sitter is represented standing;

-contours emphasized purposely;

-the brilliant color scheme where brown and yellow predominate;

• the sitter and the background merge into a single entity;

-moving and lyrical in tone and atmosphere;

‘ The Blue Boy’ ‘The Brown Boy’

‘ Mrs Siddons ‘ ‘ Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse’