Maurice Prendergast 莫里斯·普倫德加斯特 (1858-1924) Pointillism Post-Impressionism Americans

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Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924) Noted for his colorful, decorative scenes of leisure life, Maurice Prendergast was born in 1858 in St. John's, Newfoundland; his family moved to Boston in 1868. From 1891 to 1894, Prendergast lived in Paris, where he studied painting, absorbing influences from contemporary art movements such as post-impressionism. Upon his return to the United States, he resided in Boston, sharing a studio with his brother, Charles, a wood craftsman, decorator, and framemaker. He exhibited watercolors successfully in Boston and also in New York, where he became associated with the group of artists known as The Eight, who championed a more progressive approach to art than was customary at the time. While many of Prendergast's early works are set in New England, throughout his career he used sites in this country and abroad in depicting a vibrant world of crowds enjoying themselves in parks, at the seashore, and in cities. He traveled to Europe many times between 1898 and 1914. The artist's assimilation of the avant-garde styles of Cézanne and Matisse is evident in his use of strokes of vivid colors in intricate, decorative patterns that draw attention to the picture's surface. In his mature paintings, both oil and watercolor, Prendergast presents a pleasant, holiday mood, but his compositions serve primarily as a vehicle for the development of different color harmonies, freely built up in an embroidery of brushstrokes in dots and patches of varied hues.
In 1914 Prendergast settled in New York, where he enjoyed great success with collectors, among them Duncan Phillips. In an essay that appeared in The Arts in March, 1924, a month after the artist's death, Phillips wrote that Prendergast "was…a purist in regard to the…synthesis of the decorative and representative functions of his art …he persisted in reducing his observations of the visible world and his joyous emotions in the presence of nature to a simple but beautifully organized pictorial pattern." The Phillips Collection owns fourteen works by Prendergast: nine oils and five watercolors.
莫里斯·普倫德加斯特（Maurice Prendergast，1858-1924）莫里斯·普倫德加斯特（Maurice Prendergast）於1858年出生於紐芬蘭省的聖約翰市，注意到他豐富多彩的休閒生活場景。他的家人於1868年搬到了波士頓。從1891年到1894年，普倫德加斯特住在巴黎，在那裡他學習繪畫，吸收當代藝術運動如後印象派的影響。他回到美國後，居住在波士頓，與他的兄弟查爾斯（Charles，一位木工匠，裝飾者和製作者）分享了一個工作室。他在波士頓和紐約成功地展出了水彩畫，並與那些被稱為“八”（The Eight）的藝術家組成了一個藝術團體。普倫德加斯特的許多早期作品都是在新英格蘭創作的，在他的職業生涯中，他曾在這個國家和海外的網站上描繪了一個充滿活力的人群，在公園，海邊和城市中享受自己的世界。 1898年至1914年，他多次前往歐洲。藝術家對塞尚和馬蒂斯的前衛風格的同化顯然在於他用生動的色彩描繪出複雜的裝飾圖案，從而吸引人們對圖片表面的關注。在他成熟的油畫和水彩畫中，普倫德加斯特呈現出一種愉快的節日氣氛，但是他的作品主要是作為發展不同色彩和諧的工具，可以自由地以各種各樣的色調和斑點刺繡而成。
1914年，普倫德加斯特定居紐約，在那裡他與收藏家取得了巨大的成功，其中包括鄧肯·菲利普斯（Duncan Phillips）。在1924年3月出現在藝術家死後一個月的“藝術”雜誌上的一篇文章中，菲利普斯寫道，普倫德加斯特“是一個純粹主義者，他綜合了他的藝術裝飾性和代表性的功能......他堅持把他可見世界的觀察和他在大自然中的快樂情緒，以一種簡單而美觀的圖案模式。菲利普斯藏品擁有十四件普倫德加斯特的作品：九種油和五種水彩畫。