From Realism to Abstraction
Author | : Adriana Davies |
Publisher | : Art in Profile: Canadian Art a |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781552387092 |
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Highly respected as an Alberta artist and teacher, J. B. (Jack) Taylor (1917-1970) is best known for his representational, semi-abstract, and abstract paintings of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Taylor's initial influences were the American landscape painters of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, he moved from a more traditional representation of nature to an intuitive perception of the essential elements of landscape - rock, water, and sky - as impacted by light. Rather than presenting mountains in all their majesty, using acrylics and other media, he captured the aura of the mountains in a unique and abstract style.