Houses in Art - Mark King
Mark King is an expressionist. If my kids ever ask what an expressionist is, I would show them "Au Clarion" by Mark King. His expression is so different from his fellow-expressionists, say Leonid Afremov, discussed in one of the previous posts. I would call it a "fading" expression, indistinct, but not in the negative meaning of the word, but rather similar to an escaping morning dream. Well, isn't it better to see once rather then hear (or read in this case) 10 times?
Au Clarion
Artists Art Brokerage site calls Mark King "champion of Impressionism and the Ecole de Paris". Artist was born in 1931 in Bombay, India, in a privileged British family.
Cafe De Flore
Artist lived in India up to the age of 16. In 1948, following graduation from La Martiniere College in Calcutta, where his focus had been botany as well as art, King sailed to England to attend Bournemouth College of Art, having determined to pursue painting, sculpture. In 1961 King decided to concentrate on painting and moved to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Louvre. Mark King has carefully studied the old and modern masters from Cimabue and Masaccio to Goya, Turner, Degas and Bonnard.
Cafe De Dots Magots
Cezanne Studio
English Thatched Cottage
Artist's favourite media - gouache, ink, acrylic. His favorite subject - landscapes, sports, animals
Giverny Rose Standard
Jour et Nuit
Market
Mark King describes his approach to painting as ninety percent preparation. “It takes a great deal of time for me… but once I begin, I work with great impetus, with immense bursts of energy. It is not until the last ten or fifteen minutes before completion that I am able to see where the painting is going and to catch the mood of the moment.” Change has played an important role in both King’s art and life. “I have a need, artistically, for exposure to new ideas and images,” he says, and it was this need that brought him to America in 1968, a move that prompted a shift in his working methods. A landscape painter in France, King began to expand his subject matter to include sports. With his work as a sports artist King found the camera an indispensable tool, and began to work from photographs. Since coming to America, Mark King’s work has found a wide acceptance across the United States. His artwork has exhibited around the world and he has been so fortunate to develop an identifiable style and technique, with a painterly brushstroke that maintains more realism than other post-war impressionists, that has an international appeal.
Tennis Landscape
Tuscan Farm House
Port of Cassis France
Twin Towers Midnight Reflections
Compliments of Marina Gavrylyuk
Real Estate Agent with Sutton Group Summit Realty
MarinaG.ca
More houses in Art:
Edward Gordon
Evgeny Lushpin
Raynald Leclerc
Sergey Brandt
Robert Pejman
Thomas Kinkade
Mikki Senkarik
Leonid Afremov
Houses in Art
Au Clarion
Artists Art Brokerage site calls Mark King "champion of Impressionism and the Ecole de Paris". Artist was born in 1931 in Bombay, India, in a privileged British family.
Cafe De Flore
Artist lived in India up to the age of 16. In 1948, following graduation from La Martiniere College in Calcutta, where his focus had been botany as well as art, King sailed to England to attend Bournemouth College of Art, having determined to pursue painting, sculpture. In 1961 King decided to concentrate on painting and moved to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Louvre. Mark King has carefully studied the old and modern masters from Cimabue and Masaccio to Goya, Turner, Degas and Bonnard.
Cafe De Dots Magots
Cezanne Studio
English Thatched Cottage
Artist's favourite media - gouache, ink, acrylic. His favorite subject - landscapes, sports, animals
Giverny Rose Standard
Jour et Nuit
Market
Mark King describes his approach to painting as ninety percent preparation. “It takes a great deal of time for me… but once I begin, I work with great impetus, with immense bursts of energy. It is not until the last ten or fifteen minutes before completion that I am able to see where the painting is going and to catch the mood of the moment.” Change has played an important role in both King’s art and life. “I have a need, artistically, for exposure to new ideas and images,” he says, and it was this need that brought him to America in 1968, a move that prompted a shift in his working methods. A landscape painter in France, King began to expand his subject matter to include sports. With his work as a sports artist King found the camera an indispensable tool, and began to work from photographs. Since coming to America, Mark King’s work has found a wide acceptance across the United States. His artwork has exhibited around the world and he has been so fortunate to develop an identifiable style and technique, with a painterly brushstroke that maintains more realism than other post-war impressionists, that has an international appeal.
Tennis Landscape
Tuscan Farm House
Port of Cassis France
Twin Towers Midnight Reflections
Compliments of Marina Gavrylyuk
Real Estate Agent with Sutton Group Summit Realty
MarinaG.ca
More houses in Art:
Edward Gordon
Evgeny Lushpin
Raynald Leclerc
Sergey Brandt
Robert Pejman
Thomas Kinkade
Mikki Senkarik
Leonid Afremov
Houses in Art