Background
Upton, Richard Thomas was born on May 27, 1931 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Ray Granville and Helen Marie (Colla) University.
(Claude Monet was not only the creator of what we now view...)
Claude Monet was not only the creator of what we now view as French Impressionist painting, he was also its last major practitioner. By the time he passed away in 1926, he had outlived all the other painters--Renoir, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley, and the others whom we now group together under that heading. Yet when Andre Suares, one of the four directors--along with Gide, Valery, and Claudel--of the influential Nouvelle Revue Francaise, summed up the movement that year, he did not give Monet pride of place. Rather, he wrote, "Far more than Sisley, Claude Monet, or the Goncourt brothers, Loti was the great Impressionist." As this shows, that Pierre Loti, the once world-renowned French novelist, developed a remarkably Impressionist style was recognized early on. It continues to be acknowledged in France today. Franck Ferrand, a contemporary historian known for his appearances on French radio and television, recently wrote that "Pierre Loti [is] the only truly impressionist writer of French literature." Yet while those who know his work in France continue to see him as an Impressionist artist on the level of Monet and Renoir, no one has ever asked how he achieved this in literature, how he went about creating novels that resembled the work of Monet. That is the subject of this book. Examining certain of Loti's important novels, this study shows how he managed to reproduce with words what Monet was doing in oils. It also shows how the author came to theorize about the effects of Impressionism on the reader-viewer. Finally, it demonstrates how and why, in one of his last novels, Loti undertook to reproduce the style of one of the painters most admired by Monet: Rembrandt van Rijn, whom the nineteenth-century French rediscovered in part because they could present his sketchy biography as a demonstration of many of the things liberal art historians and painters believed the ideal artist should be.
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(This book explores the artist?s experience of landscape, ...)
This book explores the artist?s experience of landscape, relationship with place, and search for visual equivalents in paint. It focuses on three landscape painters who work in front of the motif. Ivon Hitchens painted the Firwood Ride series near his West Sussex home, John Walker, best known for large abstracts, painted the small scale Seal Point series on Maine?s coast, and Michael Williams based his series, The Marble Cliffs, on the Greek island of Paros. The theories of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott are adopted as a lens through which to examine these artists and their work. His thinking sheds light on the realm of creativity, underlining the centrality of paradox and duality. Winnicott?s rich notion that paintings and places are experienced as transitional objects in the artist?s potential space, where external and psychic realities co-exist, is investigated in the context of the three artists. This book is for everyone who has a passion for landscape painting and wants to explore more deeply what is happening between artist, place and paint. It provides a succinct text for students and others involved in the fine art field.
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Upton, Richard Thomas was born on May 27, 1931 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Ray Granville and Helen Marie (Colla) University.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University Connecticut, 1960. Master of Fine Arts, Indiana University, 1963.
Artist-in-residence Artists for the Environmental, Delaware Water Gap, 1972, UGA Program Abroad, Cortona, Italy, 1982-1985.
(Claude Monet was not only the creator of what we now view...)
(This book explores the artist?s experience of landscape, ...)
Numerous exhibitions including most recently, exhibitions include Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York City, 1995, National Academy of Design, 1996, The Language of Landscape, 1997, Sordoni Art Gallery, 1997, The Drawings of Richard Upton: Ireland & Italy, List Art Gallery, Swarthmore, Ben Shahn Art Galleries, 1998, Landscape and Memory: The Paintings and Drawings of Richard Upton, 1982-1999, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York City, 1999, Selby Gallery, 2006, Represented in permanent collections Zimmerli Art Museum, National Museum of America Art, Smithsonian Institution, Museum Modern Art, New York City, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Bibliot National, Paris, Montreal Museum Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum Brandeis, Museum Fine Art, Houston, National Academy Design, New York City, Metropolitan Museum Art, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College. Artist (commissions include) Eros Thanatos Suite (German poem and woodcuts), Interlaken Corporation, Providence, 1967, Salamovka Poster, Oklahoma Art Center, 1974, artist (with poems by Stanley Kunitz) River Road Suite, 1976, suite of drawing Robert Lowell at 66, 1977, suite of drawings Salmagundi magazine for humanities, The Anxious Landscape, paintings, drawings Bellarmine College, Louisville, 1989. One-man shows include 20th Anniversary Exhbt.
, Selby Gallery, 2007.
With United States Naval Reserve, 1950-1954.
1 son, Richard Thomas, World War II.