Entrance to the Port of Honfleur
Jongkind, Johan BartholdOil on canvas
16 5/8 x 22 1/4 in.
(42.2 x 56.2 cm)
1864
1864
Johan Barthold Jongkind (June 3, 1819 – Feb. 9, 1891) was a
Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism who
influenced Claude Monet. In 1878 with
his wife, painter Josephine Fesser, Johnkind moved to live in the small town of
La Cote-Saint-Andre near Grenoble in the southeast of France where he died in
1891.
Every summer, Jongkind returns on the Norman Coast, between
Trouville and Honfleur. There, a deep change takes place in his work, points of
view are getting larger and more diversified, and the subtil game of light
becomes the central element of his paintings and watercolours. He applies
himself to better translate it by means of multiple decompositions in small
colored strokes, avoiding dark and flat colors he used to paint low and cloudy
heavens at his beginnings.
Jongkind stands by his roots, his love for sea and ships,
his education as a naturalist painter, demanding observer of the real world :
far from the crowdy world of estivants, he prefers the approaches to harbours
where he paints fishermen or sailors at work.
http://www.impressionniste.net/jongkind_johan.htm
All paintings were selected solely on the basis that they fit within the theme of boats or ships, and that I felt emotionally moved by them
All paintings were selected solely on the basis that they fit within the theme of boats or ships, and that I felt emotionally moved by them
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