The scottish colourists biography of alberta
Alberta Whittle (born , Bridgetown, Barbados) is a Barbadian-Scottish multidisciplinary artist who works across media: film, sculpture, print, installation.!
Scottish Colourists (c.1904-30)
Four Post-Impressionist Painters Influenced by Matisse and Fauvism
Characteristics of Painting Style
Scottish Colourists' paintings - quite unlike the traditional academic art which was then a major part of the syllabus at most academies - were characterized by bright colour pigments, a bold, fluent handling of paint, and an overall impressionistic style.
Alberta Whittle b.
Themes were highly varied and featured nearly all the painting genres, including still life painting, portrait art, and genre painting, as well as Edinburgh interiors, townscapes and Scottish landscapes. Although many painterly elements used by the Scottish Colourists were borrowed from French painters, the latter reworked them into a distinctive Scottish style of painting during the 1920s and 1930s.
Samuel Peploe (1871-1935)
Born in Edinburgh, Peploe thought very highly of Manet and set himself the lifelong ambition of painting the "perfect" still life.
To this end, he would