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Alfred Sisley
1839-1899
French Impressionist landscape painter
His Style Was Influenced by the following Painters Frederic Bazille -Monet, Renoir, Mary Cassatt and Armand Guillaumin.
Education:
he studied under Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre and Jean-Baptiste-Camille
Corot
Cause of Death - cancer
Mediums - oil on canvas and watercolor on paper
Artist Bio
Alfred Sisley was one of the most glorious French impressionist painters of all time.
Sisley was never troubled by aesthetic controversies, or in theories of painting. It was just him and the natural environment. He concentrated on the natural environment: the French countryside, river scenes, country lanes, woodland paths, seascapes, gardens, and streams. He focused on capturing the overall impression of a scene through effects created by using light and color in diverse ways. Mardsen Hartley, author and art historian asserts "One feels likewise that the stately reticence of a man like Sisley is worth far more to us now, if only because we find in his works as they hang one beside another in numbers, a soberer and more cautious approach to the theme engrossing him and the other artists of the movement of that time. In the pictures of Sisley there is the charm of the fact for itself, the delight of the problem of placing the object in relation to the luminous atmosphere which covers it.
"Sisley liked to work outside, developing a looser brushstroke and lighter palette, working in the characteristic impressionist style for which he is best known. He believed that light was inseparable from the object it illuminated, so to capture the light at a precise moment, he worked from direct observation. Sisley executed this emotional style with bold strokes and graceful applications of color.
In the early part of his career Sisley, along with the other young Impressionist painters, became loathed for his art - at the time Impressionism was reviled by most art critics and public alike, as scandalous and unseemly and avant-garde.
Alfred Sisley Art Quotations
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist himself has fallen in love. -- Alfred Sisley
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