Introductory Post

Gallery name: Time of the Season
Location: San Francisco, California

I, Annique Cornejo, run this gallery. I show a strong interest in seasons and nature and believe it is important for everyone to admire Earth and how marvelous it is. After examining this blog, I hope you appreciate Earth and how awesome it is more than before, as I do too after creating this blog. Enjoy!

Exhibition Introduction

Title of the Exhibition: Annique's  Exhibition of Art
Featuring artists such as: Homer Dodge Martin, William Merritt Chase, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Launt Palmer, Ivan Shishkin, Carmen Beecher, Ernest Lawson, Leonid Afremov, Ginette Callaway, and Thomas Cole.

This show is about the beauty of seasons how the earth changes and adapts. I love the season theme because I love the change and transition between seasons and the beauty in it. Mother nature is truly amazing. The connection between each work is that they are all showing a different season. Some paintings are very abstract in showing it, yet some are very clear in what it is showing and I purposely did it that way to get a different feel in the same season, but viewing it in a new outlook. A lot of the artists also connect in with each other and influenced one another. Some knew each other and I thought that was very neat and a good touch to my blog. Another connection is the Oil on Canvas. I love those type of paintings as well as the impressionist movement that most of my artists featured were apart of. These connections were made with careful research, and a lot of time put into my blog to have a necessary flow and organization to it. I wanted it to connect in not only the images, but the artists themselves. I selected the artists carefully by researching them before I chose their work. If I found the art would be a good fit to my blog, I would research them and see if they connecting to the artist in anyway whether it be through knowing each other, the art style, and even the media. I also was fond of the artists that had very interesting meanings behind their paintings and I absolutely loved reading the background or story behind each painting. My goal is that my viewers see what I saw as I was creating this blog and can also make these connections as if they were seeing it without this introduction. After viewing my blog, I hope it inspires people to view art in a different way and see the different beauty in seasons.

Evening on the Thames

Artist: Homer Dodge Martin

Title: Evening of the Thames
Media: Oil on Canvas

 Dimensions: 18 1/4 x 30 1/8"

Date: 1876

 

Homer Martin was born October 28, 1836 in Albany, New York. He is the fourth and youngest son in his family. Just like many others, his work was closely assigned with the Hudson River School.

During the 1860s he spent the summers in the Adirondacks, Catskills and White Mountains where he painted landscapes. He was known for his land scape paintings. On June 25, 1861 he married Elizabeth Gilbert Davis. Homer was elected as associate of the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1868. From 1882 to 1886, he lived in France, where he spent most of his time in Normandy, including stays at the Etaples art colony. In 1893 he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where he created one of his best known works "Adirondack Scenery." You can find Homer's work in Addison Gallery of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I chose this work because I love the evening setting. The dim colors in the sky remind me of the sun setting on a warm summer night and it's very comforting. The few colors used remind me of the night time beginning. The faint water also seems to be fading away and a cool summer night is about to start. The building on the left is already begun to fade away into the evening. Warm summer nights is what this painting reminds me of and it goes so well with my theme. Connecting it to other works where there was summer rain, warm winters, spring popping flowers up, autumn beginning, this reflects summer evening and is a perfect tie to my blog.

Silent Dawn

 

Artist: Walter Launt Palmer

Title: Silent Dawn
Media: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

Date: 1919
 

 Walter was born August 1, 1854 in Albany, New York. He was an American Impressionist painter. His father Erastus Dow Palmer was a prominent sculptor and grew up surrounded by his fathers friends such as Frederick E. Church who was a notable landscape painter. At the age of 18 he had his work accepted for a show at The National Academy of Design in New York. At the age of 24 Palmer had become a protégé of Frederick Church, and ultimately shared a studio with him in New York city from 1878-1881. In 1890 he married Georgianna Myers who sadly died two years later during childbirth. Walter later married Zoe de Vautrin Wyndham. In 1903 their daughter Beatrice was born . Walter's work was influenced primarily by the regionalist principles of the Hudson River School. His travels through the Catskill Mountains, Hudson River Valley, Paris and Venice are reflected in his landscapes. Walter Launt Palmer’s snow scenes earned him a reputation as a master of capturing winter on canvas. This piece "
Silent Dawn" was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"Mr. Palmer is a devotee of the bleak and wintry season of
               the year, when everything is snowed under, that is, except
        Mr. Palmer's work, and all but one of these fourteen pictures
        are snow scenes­-- the exception is a hot, turgid, sunny
        Venice... as rosy red and warm as his snow pictures
        are blue and blue, and Mr. Palmer is no less happy in both."

As I was skimming through looking for painting that would fit my blog, I came upon this one and loved it. I admire the tilting tree and the light brown tint on the snow that gives the painting more life. The snow is so white that it is reflected on the stream. As I was researching the background on Walter Palmer I came across the fact that he had traveled through the Hudson River School and the Catskill Mountains which made a connection to Thomas Cole on one of my previous posts. I thought it was so interesting how I coincidentally came upon an artist who would be connected to one of my artists I have already posted about. I love when artists collide together and when I can make connections between them because it's wonderful to see how other artists influence each other.

Summer Fun

Artist: Carmen Beecher
Title: Summer Fun

Media: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)

Date: August 2012

 

"The more I paint, the more I want to paint, so being a Daily Painter suits me just fine" said Carmen herself. Carmen was a solitary child and alternated her time between reading and drawing. However, now, she is not a solitary adult. She is active in painting groups as well as two daily painter sites online. Oil painting is her main art, but she also does abstract art, collage and when she needs to she will get "zen with the pen" for a meditative art activity. She resides in Florida and a lot of her paintings come from scenes in Florida. She gets inspired by new places, different light and atmosphere, and a different palette. "Sitting on a rock in a new spot with paint all over me is a very happy place" she states. She joined daily painting, an online community of painters who commit to three or more paintings a week and post them on daily painting websites. This movement connects artists throughout the world and makes art affordable. In this painting, we see a little boy playing in beach water. I chose this because this is summer in a nutshell, beach trips! What is summer without the beach. We are lucky enough to have beautiful beaches here and it is a main thing everyone does during summer. I couldn't show a summer painting in my art blog without having the beach. The way the waves are coming up to his feet are so elegant and his body language shows how fascinated this boy is with the water. This painting is so detailed you can even see his shadow in the water where he is being reflected by the warm summer sun. I love the distinction of summer in this image and how realistic it is when it comes to children and the beach. This is definitely summer fun!

Spring Tapestry

Artist: Ernest Lawson
Title: Spring Tapestry

Media: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 40 1/8 x 50 in (101.9 x 127 cm)

Date: 1930

 

Ernest Lawson was born March 22, 1873 in  Halifax, Nova Scotia and arrived in the United States in 1888 and settled in Kansas City.  In 1891, he went to live in New York and enrolled in classes at the Art Students League, studying under John Twachtman, who introduced him to Impressionism and would become one of his biggest influences. He was a member of "the eight" which was a group of artists who formed a loose association in 1908 to protest the narrowness of taste and restrictive exhibition policies of the conservative, powerful National Academy of Design. Ernest was known to be a landscape painter, but he also painted realistic urban scenes. His style of painting is influenced by John Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and Alfred Sisley. He later married his former art teacher, Ella Hollman. "Lawson was accused of failing to disguise the more rugged elements in his canvases. His rocks looked hard and harsh—in other words, like rocks, not cream puffs; and he often included some human sign—a tumbledown shack, a sagging jetty, an abandoned rowboat—which in those genteel days were evidently considered no better than ashcans, and no fit subjects for 'art.'—William Glackens, quoted in Ira Glackens." This piece, Spring Tapestry is one of Ernest Lawson's most masterful summations of his landscape painting style. The tension between the gentle Impressionist poetry of spring and the bustle of urban life makes up a large part of Lawson's unique vision as a landscape painter. I admire the simple colors used in this painting. They are simply just orange, yellow, green, and blue; all spring colors. That is one of the big reasons why I chose this work, but I also chose it because it's a little messy as the trees are covering the mountains, the colors are scattered, as you can see on the top of the mountains where there is some orange and yellow painting on them yet, the whole piece comes together and looks right. On the bottom of the painting there is green, and plant life such as flowers as if spring has sprung and is popping daisies up. This is a very unique way of showing spring, but it clearly shows that it is spring in its very own way. Last, I love the blue stream of river and how there is one section where it is white to show the reflection beam of the sun shining down on the water.

 

Tricks of the Summer

Artist: Leonid Afremov
Title: Tricks of the Summer

Media: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: (180cm x 120cm)
Date: 2010

 

Leonid Afremov was born born 12 July 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus. He loved there until 1990 where he then lived in Israel from 1990-2002. From 2002 to 2010 he resided in Boca Raton, Florida. He currently lives in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico.  In 1976 he married his wife Inessa Kagan, and the following year their first child Dmitry was born. In 1984 their second son, Boris was born.His children manage his virtual gallery and shipping office in Mexico where they currently live. Leonid is a modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oils. During his college years he was introduced to the work of March Chagall, Picasso, Dali, Modigliani and the 19th century French Impressionism. His early artwork was influenced by Chagall and Modigliani. "Leonid Afremov keeps the majority of his art politically neutral. His paintings are not offensive to anyone nor send any hidden messages. The paintings usually reflect certain personal memories and emotions. Leonid Afremov tries to draw the viewer to have a certain feeling rather than tell a story via the painting, or have the viewer see the world how he sees it." I chose this painting because it interprets summer in such an abstract way. It isn't like your ordinary summer painting, it's different. The trees are orange/yellow which make it look like summer but in the painting it also shows a wet ground as if it was raining as well as a person holding an umbrella which is where the title "Tricks of the Summer" comes into play. Although it doesn't usually rain in the summer, it sometimes does and this is what this image is trying to convey. I love summer rain and this was such a good painting to go with my theme of seasons with its abstract beauty.