{"id":916,"date":"2013-10-11T21:54:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T01:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2013-10-22T23:26:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T03:26:45","slug":"916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Blakelock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Description of the Tonalist Painting Style and Technique<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Blakelock-Corcoran.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[916]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-918\" alt=\"Blakelock-Corcoran\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Blakelock-Corcoran-300x217.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Blakelock-Corcoran-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Blakelock-Corcoran.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ralph Blakelock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0American Tonalism is rooted in the French Barbizon movement, which emphasized atmosphere and shadow. The Tonalist style employs a distinctive technique by the use of color&#8217;s middle values as opposed to stronger contrast and high chroma. Resulting in a understated and compelling overall effect. The tonalist subject matter is never entirely apparent; their is no effort to communicate a message or narrate a story.\u00a0 Instead of relating a story, each sensitively chosen color, composition, and line is arranged to create an intriguing visual poem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The interiors of tonalist paintings are generally elegant and sparsely decorated, tonally uniform, simplified and indistinct; the figures are usually presented alone in silent contemplation.\u00a0 Landscapes are typically luscious and luminous with evocative atmospheric effects featuring misty backgrounds illuminated by moonlight. Tonalists painters were drawn to both the natural and spiritual realms. They sought to awaken the viewers consciousness by shrouding the subject in a misty indistinct veil of emotionalism. The palette is minimal, characterized by warm hues of brown, soft greens, gauzy yellows and muted grays. Preferred themes were evocative moonlight nights and poetic, vaporous landscapes.\u00a0Tonalist painters seemed to favored unconscious states and psychological experiences over reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Taken from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyofpainters.com\/\">historyofpainters.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description of the Tonalist Painting Style and Technique Ralph Blakelock \u00a0American Tonalism is rooted in the French Barbizon movement, which emphasized atmosphere and shadow. The Tonalist style employs a distinctive technique by the use of color&#8217;s middle values as opposed to stronger contrast and high chroma. Resulting in a understated and compelling overall effect. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}