Childe Hassam: American Impressionm
Author: Ankele, Daniel
Binding: Kindle Edition
Format: Kindle eBook
Number Of Pages: 645
Release Date: 20-11-2014
Details: CHILDE HASSAM: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM Art Book contains 590+ HD Reproductions of Impressionist landscapes, seascapes, nocturnes, nudes, winter and genre scenes with annotations and biography. Book includes Table of Contents, Top 50 Museums of the World and is formatted for Kindle HDX, HD, Kindle for iOS and Android tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).
It was an April afternoon in 1918, as fighting raged far away on the western front, that the vigilant New York City policemen noticed the vigorous middle-aged man. Peering out into the Hudson River, he was intensely sketching a camouflaged transport vessel. This was more than suspicious enough for the cop, who promptly arrested the supposed spy. The sketcher, however, was not engaged in espionage, but art. It was typical of Childe Hassam that upon his prompt release, he paused to praise the policeman for his alert thoroughness.
Certainly no one could accuse Hassam of having any less than the same attentiveness to his work. By the time of this wartime incident, the 59-year-old Hassam was renowned as one of America’s greatest artists, but it did not slow either his extraordinary productivity or excellence. Nor had his fame and years dimmed his Impressionist commitment to painting his own time and place in the plein air. He remained what Baudelaire described as a “passionate spectator” for whom “it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude.”
But as with all great creators, Hassam frustrates the categorizer. His honest commitment to paint what he saw left us with the breath-taking record of a Gilded Age urban America that matched Hassam’s own irrepressible exuberance and vitality. At the same time, his love of place and rootedness guided a commitment to intimately depicting traditional scenes of his native New England; from rocky shores to ports to country churches. Legitimately regarded as the pre-eminent Impress
Languages: English
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