Sisley: Impressionist
I always forget
that Sisley’s father was English and Sisley himself trained as a business man
in London. The show was chronological but used the places Sisley was working as
the narrative rather than the dates. The show explained well how Sisley used
paths and roads to lead you into compositions.
The works were
lovely and full of light and air although the colours got darker as he got
older. Although we thing of his as a great French landscape painter it was
great to see three of the fifteen works he did of the river at Hampton Court
here. I love the one which looks at the view under the bridge focusing on the
structure. There were also a number of his pictures of cliffs near Cardiff
which the National Gallery did a small exhibition on a few years ago.
I loved the four
pictures near the end, again form a larger series, looking at the façade of a
cathedral, an exercise to make a visual mapping of a scene.
Closed on 15
October 2017
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