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Innes , J. D.
(James Dickson )
(James Dickson )
(1887–1914).
British painter. He is best known for his landscapes, especially those painted in his native Wales, where he worked with his friend Augustus
John
in 1911 and 1912. He usually worked on a fairly small scale, often on wooden panels. His early work was in an
Impressionist
manner, but he later developed a more expressive
Post-Impressionist
style combining hot colour and decorative pattern. He died young of tuberculosis.
British painter. He is best known for his landscapes, especially those painted in his native Wales, where he worked with his friend Augustus
John
in 1911 and 1912. He usually worked on a fairly small scale, often on wooden panels. His early work was in an
Impressionist
manner, but he later developed a more expressive
Post-Impressionist
style combining hot colour and decorative pattern. He died young of tuberculosis.
Inness , George
(1825–94).
American landscape painter. He was without formal training but developed his style in the course of frequent visits to Europe, being particularly influenced by the
Barbizon School
. His work falls into two fairly distinct periods. In the first he attempted to bring greater breadth to American
Romantic
realism, dissolving hard outline into a play of atmosphere and colour, but with something of the ordered beauty of
Claude
(
Peace and Plenty
, Met. Mus., New York, 1865). From
c.
1859, when he went to live in the village of Medfield outside Boston, his style began to change to a more intimate manner of landscape in which he chose deliberately unpicturesque subjects and relied for pictorial appeal on subtle harmonies of colour and broad massing of light and shade. Inness has often been considered to be the outstanding American landscape painter of the 19th cent. His son,
George Inness
,
Jun
. (1854–1926), was also a painter and published an account of his father's career (1917).
American landscape painter. He was without formal training but developed his style in the course of frequent visits to Europe, being particularly influenced by the
Barbizon School
. His work falls into two fairly distinct periods. In the first he attempted to bring greater breadth to American
Romantic
realism, dissolving hard outline into a play of atmosphere and colour, but with something of the ordered beauty of
Claude
(
Peace and Plenty
, Met. Mus., New York, 1865). From
c.
1859, when he went to live in the village of Medfield outside Boston, his style began to change to a more intimate manner of landscape in which he chose deliberately unpicturesque subjects and relied for pictorial appeal on subtle harmonies of colour and broad massing of light and shade. Inness has often been considered to be the outstanding American landscape painter of the 19th cent. His son,
George Inness
,
Jun
. (1854–1926), was also a painter and published an account of his father's career (1917).
Inshaw , David
.
.
installation
.
.
Term that came into vogue during the 1970s for an
assemblage
or
environment
constructed in the gallery specifically for a particular exhibition.
assemblage
or
environment
constructed in the gallery specifically for a particular exhibition.
Institute of Contemporary Arts
(ICA), London.
(ICA), London.
Cultural centre founded by Roland
Penrose
and Herbert
Read
in 1947 to encourage new developments in the arts and cater for some of the functions fulfilled by the
Museum of Modern Art
in New York, organizing exhibitions, lectures, films, and so on. Its original home was in Dover Street, but it moved to Nash House, the Mall, in 1968. Many leading artists have been members of the ICA and it has played an important role in certain developments; for example, in the 1950s it was the cradle of British
Pop art
(see
INDEPENDENT GROUP
).
Penrose
and Herbert
Read
in 1947 to encourage new developments in the arts and cater for some of the functions fulfilled by the
Museum of Modern Art
in New York, organizing exhibitions, lectures, films, and so on. Its original home was in Dover Street, but it moved to Nash House, the Mall, in 1968. Many leading artists have been members of the ICA and it has played an important role in certain developments; for example, in the 1950s it was the cradle of British
Pop art
(see
INDEPENDENT GROUP
).
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