1967 Painting. Artist?

Any idea who the artist is? Amateur and (nearly) impossible to find out?

 

No idea about the artist... but I have to say that I'd never have thought of it as an example of Impressionism... the large sparse brush strokes, the lack of natural light, no interaction of light/shadow... but WDIK!
Hopefully, someone will be along soon who can help you.

 

Hmm that looks like dry brush painting technique and not pastel.

I also wouldn't call this Impressionist, especially in 1967. Landscape sketch. JL? IL?

 

Calling it Impressionism and a pastel just shows how much I know about art
It didn't look like paint to me, but now, after removing it from the frame, I can confirm it's paint.
Regarding the signature: I also think it's JL

 

I've always thought impressionist was art that was really a bunch of shapes without any real realistic definition, but when examined from a short distance created a picture. By my uneducated definition I'd have agreed with the use of the term here, I mean the building on the right consists of a few lines and some big brush marks.

 

Probably a street artist in France or Italy.

 

My first thought was a street artist too. Perhaps not a Continental artist as the 7 isn't crossed but certainly a Continental scene. And one done with some facility but with great speed. Practically shouts commercial intent.

Debora

 

Impressionism. For those who missed ART101. The important thing to know... It wouldn't have been possible if not for the invention of the paint tube which finally allowed artists to leave their studios and paint outdoors. Revolutionary (as was the art.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism

Debora

 

Not all Continentals cross the 7. I don't.

 

I do! (And I'm not Continental.)

Debora

 

There goes the theory....

 

Thank you all for your replies. I didn't expect it to be by a street artist, as I'm used to seeing modern street artist signing with the paint they're using, and not grabbing a pen to do this. Apparently 1967 street artists weren't that lazy

Thank you for making me believe I'm not a complete fool (or for letting me know I'm not the only ignorant person here )

And in my case the 7-theory is correct. The cross might differ from one 7 to another, ....even if they are written in the same number , but I'm definitely a continental 7 writer.

 

There were also street vendors who sold other people's paintings as thier own. They would add a signature "after the fact".
I'm not saying this is such a painting, but it could be. The actual painters were often art students.

 

So we now have a Continental non-crosser, a non-Continental crosser, and a Continental crosser with variations....

 

That still happens. There's one guy who keeps doing that with my artwork!
He signs my work with the name Banksy ...

 

Optical Mixing is a feature of Impressionist work, but Impressionism is more than just that. It's also a specific Art Movement that happened at a specific time at the end of the 19th c. Works created out of that period and not by those artists, can be "in the style of", but not be Impressionist as the art world categorizes Art Movements. There are other Impressionist factors, and aesthetics that I don't think this falls into either, but you get the idea. It's definitely worth reading about the movement because it was truly groundbreaking to the Art establishment and changed much.


I agree this looks like street art/tourist art to me too from the speed, bright colors, and city scape with figures motif. It looks more like a planned abstraction for profit, than an observational piece. I still like it, but it's going to be difficult to find the artist I fear.

(I also cross my 7s as a dirty American...)

 

So at the moment we have more non-Continental crossers than Continental crossers....

 

I also cross my 7s. FWIW, I would probably call this a modernist cityscape. I actually like the spareness of it.

 

Another non-Continental crosser.