Interest

Art

My favorite artist is Alfred Sisley who was a landscape painter in France. He was born in Paris and his father, William Sisley was the director of a company that exported artificial flowers. When Alfred Sisley was eighteen, his parents decided to send him to England to prepare for his career in business. However, stay in London was only a trip to him because he infatuated with Turner's landscape paintings and he enjoyed to visiting museum and art exhibitions. In 1862, he returned to France because he wanted to be a painter so he took painting lessons in the atelier of Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre. He became acquainted first with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, then with Claude Monet and with Frederic Bazille. Sisley was the founder of the group of Impressionist painters and included Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Morisot, Guilaumin and Bazille. They worked together, influenced each other and exhibited together. He had aspired in sensitive landscape like Pissarro; especially he liked landscape in snow day.

My thoughts

I like Sisley's paintings because there are so many bright colors in his paintings. When I see his paintings, I realized that he had a particular way of his own drawing style in the landscape drawings and he had shown the simple and natural elegance with his particular way of brush stroke. Most of his paintings were used by oil on canvas and he tried to use various techniques to describe a picture. Early impressionists began to give colors and brushed freely and they broke the rules of academic painting. They also had been painted indoors and landscapes instead of portraits. They always used customized colors and avoided to make the objects exactly same as the actual objects. They tried to express their own feelings about the objects into the canvas and they focused on the moment in landscape by own views. I think that Sisley believed that all colors from natures changes by the light and an air so he reached the conclustion that there is no essence colors from the actual object.

Reference : International Dictionary of Art and Artists, st.James, 1990 / Sisley, Raymond Cogniat, 1997