Showing posts with label luminists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label luminists. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

The Uncanny - Luminists and Other 19th Century American Painters

I have to admit that I find the Luminists' paintings quite different. Even if they look somehow realistic, there's something about them that just doesn't fit completely... Those landscapes and scenarios actually familiar, there shouldn't be anything strange, but somehow they just don't look completely right (even in a fantasy)... they are uncanny!
Even though there's crackling in some works, the paintings have an exquisite brushwork, there are no brush marks or painting clumps on them and I really like that. In my own paintings, I prefer not to leave any brush marks at all, so I kind of feel comfortable with this painters.

"Boatmen on the Missouri"