FINE ART PRINTS & POSTERS of ALFRED SISLEY

Alfred Sisley - Art Gallery

Alfred Sisley was born on the 30'Th of October 1839, in Paris. He was brought up in an English business family resided in France. In 1857 he was sent to London to learn about commercial trading. During his stay he often visited the galleries in London. Those visits were the nutriment for Alfred's love to the painting. He found peculiar interest for the paintings of Constable, Bonington and especially paintings of William Turner. Sisley completed his studies in London and returned to Paris in 1861, firmly decided to become a painter. The following year, released from his obligations - though financial supported by his father, he started to work in the atelier of the Swiss artist Charles Gleyre. Here he met and became acquainted with some other young artists as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Fredric Bazille, a friendship which in the near future should turn into one of the greatest eras in the history of art.  Contineus!

Although Gleyre's atelier was closed down in 1864, the four artists continued to paint together by practicing open air painting in the woods of Fontaineblau, and they were often gathered in Bazille's atelier. In the mid 1860's the writer and reviewer, Emile Zola, was paying attention to the artist group, and he linked relations between the group and other artists as Edouard Manet. Alfred Sisley was humorous and loyal of nature. However, he was also a rather private person, preferring quit company with his wife, Marie Lesouezec, instead of the rather loudly circles of Edouard Manet.
From the very beginning of Sisley art works, one can see a govern attention to the effects of light, colors and atmosphere. He studied the paintings of the Barbizon painters thoroughly, especial paintings of Rousseau and Millet. He adopted Corot's passion for the nature and Courbet's rough brush strokes. In the beginning of the 1870's his paintings has a lighter character, the brush strokes more sensitive and more variations by pure colors. The Franco Prussian war (1870-71) caused to the failure of his fathers business, as also happened to most of the Anglo French business men in France at that time. Sisley was no longer financial secure and for the rest of his life he was living in rather poor circumstances. During the 1870's his style altered gradually bold and lesser constrained. He took part in most of the exhibitions at the Salon during the Great Decade of the Impressionism (1872-1883). Contineus!

Alfred Sisley died on the 29'Th of January 1899, after being suffering for 4 years of throat cancer. In his lifetime he never achieved respects outside the inner art cycle of the French Impressionism movement. Vincent van Gogh described Alfred Sisley as the most discrete of the Impressionists. Perhaps because of his nature, Alfred Sisley was the one of the Impressionists who showed most loyalty to the boundaries of the Impressionistic landscape painting. As Cristopher Lloyd as well writes in the book; "The Impressionistic Revolution": "Alfred Sisley never abandoned the Impressionism, the Impressionism abandoned him!"

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