Author: Tsaneva, Maria

Edition: 1

Binding: Kindle Edition

Format: Kindle eBook

Number Of Pages: 137

Release Date: 30-11-2013

Details: This Art Book with Foreword and annotated reproductions by Maria Tsaneva contains 137 selected paintings and drawings of Henry Fuseli.

Henry Fuseli was a British painter, draftsman, and writer on art, born in Zürich, Switzerland. As a painter, Fuseli favored the supernatural and leaning everything on an ideal scale, believing a certain amount of hyperbole necessary in the higher branches of historical painting. The figures in his paintings are full of life and earnestness. Like Rubens he excelled in the art of setting his figures in motion. Though the lofty and terrible was his proper sphere, Fuseli had a fine perception of the ridiculous.

Fuseli painted more than 200 pictures, but exhibited only a small number of them. His sketches or designs numbered about 800; they have admirable qualities of invention and design, and are frequently superior to his paintings. He rarely drew the figure from life, basing his art on study of the antique and Michelangelo. Fuseli produced no landscapes and painted only two portraits.
In 1799 he was appointed professor of painting at the Royal Academy, and keeper of the Academy in 1804. Among his pupils were John Constable, Benjamin Haydon, William Etty and Edwin Landseer. William Blake, who was sixteen years his junior, recognized a debt to Fuseli, and for a time many English artists copied his mannerisms.

Languages: English