Wellington Art Club - Miramar
About Wellington Art Club
James Nairn (1859–1904) was the Scottish painter who introduced impressionism and strongly influenced New Zealand other New Zealand artists. He believed in en plein air or painting outdoors both for landscapes and figure subjects. He would paint and sketch outside, in all sorts of weather, in an endeavour to faithfully capture the effects of light and weather.
Controversy is good for business, and Nairn and his followers, the self-described "Bohemians of the Brush", had the art world of the time abuzz with their en plein air approach to capture colour, light and shade, using wide flat brushes, portable easels and palettes. The resulting "snippets of landscape" (Jane Vial) as opposed to the grand sweeping panoramas of many of their predecessors, form the greater part of the paintings on display in this multi-dimensional exhibition.
Although Nairn denied that he was an ‘impressionist’, elements of his painting resembled that school – his outdoor sketching, the visible brushwork, the portrayal of light, the bright green and mauve colours and the focus on ordinary scenes in place of sublime mountainscapes. Nairn’s style was sufficiently revolutionary to cause the Evening Post newspaper to dismiss the club’s work as ‘creations of a disordered imagination’.
The first annual exhibition was held on 19 July 1893.
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| Address : | Wellington Art Club 27 Chelsea Street, Miramar, Wellington 6011, New Zealand |
| Phone : | π +7887 |
| Postal code : | 6011 |
| Website : | http://www.wellingtonart.co.nz/ |
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