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One of the main practical aspects of Academic Art, the school of painters influenced by the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, is the number of studies that its extreme complexity requires of the artists. Because of its complicated nature, artists such as Jean-Léon Gérôme would often produce a significant amount of studies in preparation for a painting that would be taken to its completion. Such studies were often as complete as the paintings themselves, allowing the artist to work with the lighting, composition, and forms more freely, to then later add a perfected version of those to the final work to be presented.
Although Edwin Lord Weeks is more often connected to Orientalism than to Academic Art, the American painter was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Léon Bonnat, and as such shared in many of their techniques and processes, even if with subject matters that in many occasions differed from those of his masters. Being so, for every carefully crafted and polished painting produced by Weeks, there are several sketches and studies, often made in loco. To say that the less complicated nature of the studies means a diminished value of the painting is, nonetheless, a mistake. These paintings reflect the artist’s experience of the environment in the purest way and being able to see them in the continuum of the artist’s work is of immeasurable value to the understanding of the aesthetic.
In this oil on canvas, probably finished circa 1883, during Weeks’ first travel to India, the American artist seems to have been developing his understanding of Indian architecture and the environment. Depicted here is the city of Muttra, now known as Mathura, as it would be seen from the banks of the River Yamuna, the main tributary to the Ganga river. The city itself is of great importance to the Hindu faith, as it would have been there that the god Krishna would have been born.
Compared to the paintings of Benares, where the artist would keep his temporary studio in India, it is less of a constructed composition made to be representative of Indian society and more of a snapshot of actual Indian life, including only what called Weeks’ attention on the moment of contact, which leads to a painting that looks much emptier than the studio ones, leaving more space for the observer to focus on the architecture and feel of the scene.
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Note that for safety reasons we can only frame up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached the framing option is automatically disabled.
If you are planning to frame your painting yourself, use an existing frame, or frame it locally, you may choose to order your painting with a stretching service, meaning that it will arrive mounted on wooden bars.
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