The Scottish painter Arthur Claude Strachan was born in Edinburgh in 1865. At first glance, the artist can not be assigned to a particular style or era. His works mainly reflect landscape motifs. Strachan worked mainly with watercolors. Thanks to these working tools, the painter was able to experiment with delicate and muted watercolors. His landscape paintings clearly show that the creative mind tried out in different directions. Arthur Claude Strachan acquired the necessary painting techniques during his studies in Liverpool. Natural landscapes, for example, from rivers, mountain lakes, motifs on the seashore to the home garden, the painter chose as his subject matter. In addition, the individualist turned to new subjects from the bourgeois milieu and the world of work. He attached much importance to the fact that a new sensitivity to nature and its effect on the mental state of people was clearly visible.
He was not afraid to go out into the wild and paint his pictures there. The aim was to reproduce the natural aura in his interpretations realistically and objectively. The painter has succeeded impressively in this. His works appear airy, light and express pure closeness to nature. Strachan took pure joy in playing with the light of the natural environment. The result is works of art that are brimming with authenticity. His talent did not remain undiscovered for long. Art houses such as the art gallery in Liverpool (Walker Art Gallery) and the Royal Academy became aware of the artist and his work. Shortly after, the art galleries exhibited some of his paintings in their venues. Arthur Claude Strachan had made it. However, the free spirit by no means wanted to rest on his success. Rather, he saw the recognition of his art, as an incentive to continue.
That was a good decision, because Strachan created still some masterpieces, which let listen. Interested viewers* were allowed to watch, among other things, a young man fishing or watching ducks walking calmly past a half-timbered house. The oil painting 'Feeding the Hens' from 1894 also aroused enthusiasm. The detail of the picture shows a woman feeding hens in front of her mountain hut. The picture has a slightly dreamy effect. Basically, Arthur Claude Strachan focused on the play of light and colors in his painting style. Through this ingenious move, the painter has given the landscape depictions a certain depth. Quasi a dynamic, which one often looked for in vain in the works of his contemporaries. Even today, many fans of landscape painting feel captivated by these originally beautiful pictures. Strachan spent his retirement in the United Kingdom until he died in 1938.
The Scottish painter Arthur Claude Strachan was born in Edinburgh in 1865. At first glance, the artist can not be assigned to a particular style or era. His works mainly reflect landscape motifs. Strachan worked mainly with watercolors. Thanks to these working tools, the painter was able to experiment with delicate and muted watercolors. His landscape paintings clearly show that the creative mind tried out in different directions. Arthur Claude Strachan acquired the necessary painting techniques during his studies in Liverpool. Natural landscapes, for example, from rivers, mountain lakes, motifs on the seashore to the home garden, the painter chose as his subject matter. In addition, the individualist turned to new subjects from the bourgeois milieu and the world of work. He attached much importance to the fact that a new sensitivity to nature and its effect on the mental state of people was clearly visible.
He was not afraid to go out into the wild and paint his pictures there. The aim was to reproduce the natural aura in his interpretations realistically and objectively. The painter has succeeded impressively in this. His works appear airy, light and express pure closeness to nature. Strachan took pure joy in playing with the light of the natural environment. The result is works of art that are brimming with authenticity. His talent did not remain undiscovered for long. Art houses such as the art gallery in Liverpool (Walker Art Gallery) and the Royal Academy became aware of the artist and his work. Shortly after, the art galleries exhibited some of his paintings in their venues. Arthur Claude Strachan had made it. However, the free spirit by no means wanted to rest on his success. Rather, he saw the recognition of his art, as an incentive to continue.
That was a good decision, because Strachan created still some masterpieces, which let listen. Interested viewers* were allowed to watch, among other things, a young man fishing or watching ducks walking calmly past a half-timbered house. The oil painting 'Feeding the Hens' from 1894 also aroused enthusiasm. The detail of the picture shows a woman feeding hens in front of her mountain hut. The picture has a slightly dreamy effect. Basically, Arthur Claude Strachan focused on the play of light and colors in his painting style. Through this ingenious move, the painter has given the landscape depictions a certain depth. Quasi a dynamic, which one often looked for in vain in the works of his contemporaries. Even today, many fans of landscape painting feel captivated by these originally beautiful pictures. Strachan spent his retirement in the United Kingdom until he died in 1938.
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