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Alfred East (1844-1913) A collection of paintings 2K Ultra HD Silent Slideshow
Alfred East (1844-1913) A collection of paintings 2K Ultra HD Silent Slideshow
An English landscape painter.
East was born in Kettering in Northamptonshire and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. His romantic landscapes show the influence of the Barbizon school. His The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour was published in 1906. In April 1888 he had shared an exhibition at the galleries of the Fine Art Society with T.C. Gotch and W. Ayerst Ingram, and was commissioned the following year by Marcus Huish, Managing Director of the Society, to spend six months in Japan to paint the landscape and the people of the country. When the exhibition of 104 paintings from this tour was held at the Fine Art Society in 1890 it was a spectacular success.
East visited Spain after 1892 when he visited Algeciras at the southern end of Iberia.
In 1906 he was elected President of the Royal Society of British Artists, a position he held until his death. In that year, he published his 107-page illustrated The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour; in its preface, he made the observation: The greatest errors in landscape painting are to be found – contradictory as it may appear – not so much in the matter of technique as in the painter's attitude toward Nature. In this book he described his techniques using colours, half-tones and pencil sketches.
He was awarded a Knighthood in 1910 by King Edward VII. His portrait was painted by Philip de Laszlo. The Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering, designed by John Alfred Gotch opened on 31 July 1913. The Alfred East Gallery is Northamptonshire's oldest purpose-built art gallery.
East was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1899, having been a regular exhibitor since 1883 and elected to full membership in 1913.
On 28 September 1913, Alfred East died at his London residence in Belsize Park. His body was taken back to Kettering and lay in state in the Art Gallery, where it was surrounded by the pictures he had presented to the town, and attracted crowds of several thousands
Manor House Museum Kettering
Temporary exhibitions and regular activities make Kettering Museum and Art Gallery a lively and vibrant place to visit. At the Museum find out what makes Kettering unique. Covering the history of the Borough, the Museum is packed with fascinating objects including archaeology, natural history, geology, and costume. The Alfred East Gallery has a regular series of changing exhibitions by local artists, as well as a permanent collection gallery displaying the work of Sir Alfred East, T. C. Gotch and others.
Entry is FREE (donations are gratefully received!)
Into The Wood - Fiona Kingdon, Artist Wood
A short shakey clip of my exhibition 'Into The Wood' at The Alfred East Gallery, Kettering Sept 2016.
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Eleanor Tomlinson poses as Steve McQueen in art project
Eleanor Tomlinson posed as Steve McQueen in the iconic WWII film The Great Escape as part of an art project which saw 10 British actors portrayed in their dream role.Visual artist Joe Simpson created the paintings as part of his ACT exhibition which opens at War Memorial Art Gallery in Stockport, Greater Manchester, later this month. The ten pieces captured the sitters in roles that they wish they had played including that of Eleanor Tomlinson, best known as Poldark's Demelza, as Steve McQueen's wartime hero Virgil Hilts. These included Olivia Colman as Bess in Breaking the Waves, Matt Lucas as Don Lockwood in Singin' In The Rain and Warwick Davis as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.Michael Sheen said that he had already played all of his dream roles and so instead opted to be painted as Max from children's book Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak's.Other sitters included Paddy Considine, Charlie Cox, Mark Gatiss, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Simm and Eleanor Tomlinson. The project took Mr Simpson five years to complete. He said that the hardest part was persuading the celebrities to agree to take part in the first place. His first sitter was Paddy Considine, known for his roles in Hot Fuzz and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, who was a friend of a friend. Mr Simpson contacted the others through their agents or via social media and managed to gain traction for the project. The next steps were to discuss the character and their depiction with the actor before photographing them with props and costumes. He originally added the backdrops using Photoshop on a computer before taking them into the studio to paint them in oil on canvas. Speaking about the result, Mr Simpson said that they were 'like a film still from a film that doesn't exist'.'These are the most researched pieces I've worked on, where I study each role and create a scene from scratch – which includes making costumes, referencing cinematography, genre conventions and character profiles and visiting authentic locations - all to build a single frame story,' according to The Telegraph. He said that the project also deepened his knowledge of film as he set about reaching each of the films repeatedly to get a sense of the portrait. Mr Simpson has already been in discussions with a new group of famous faces who he hopes to feature in the future including Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Dame Judi Dench.The show opens at the War Memorial Art Gallery in Stockport on January 25.It will then travel to the Theatre Clwyd, North Wales, and the Alfred East Art Gallery, Kettering. Eleanor Tomlinson poses as Steve McQueen in art project
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Sketching from Nature, Equipment, Colour, Composition, Trees, Skies, Grass, Reflections, Distance -- chapters rich with timeless oil painting advice by a master landscape artist, Sir Alfred East. East had an exceptional ability to capture the individuality of trees, the quiver of their leaves against the sky. “If we look at a photograph, the edges of the trees do not give you the feeling that the tree is a living thing, they are marked with hard precision against the light, like a solid building, and yet at the same time if we see them in Nature we hear the whisper of their leaves and know that they live and breathe. To express that is a greater truth than the camera can reveal, and a higher form of realism.” East served as president of the Royal Society of British Artists from 1906 to 1913. - Summary by Sue Anderson
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A timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Progressive Era to the end of World War II, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Copyright protection secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent claim of the original invention in question, highlighted in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution which gives the following enumerated power to the United States Congress:
In 1641, the first patent in North America was issued to Samuel Winslow by the General Court of Massachusetts for a new method of making salt. On April 10, 1790, President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) into law which proclaimed that patents were to be authorized for any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein not before known or used. On July 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became the first person in the United States to file and to be granted a patent under the new U.S. patent statute. The Patent Act of 1836 (Ch. 357, 5 Stat. 117) further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent applications are filed, processed, and granted, contingent upon the language and scope of the claimant's invention, for a patent term of 14 years with an extension of up to an additional 7 years.From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below. Some examples of patented inventions between the years 1890 and 1945 include John Froelich's tractor (1892), Ransom Eli Olds' assembly line (1901), Willis Carrier's air-conditioning (1902), the Wright Brothers' airplane (1903), and Robert H. Goddard's liquid-fuel rocket (1926).
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00:02:49 1 History
00:12:27 2 International operations
00:12:50 2.1 North America
00:12:59 2.1.1 Canada
00:13:07 2.1.2 Mexico
00:14:21 2.2 Asia
00:14:29 2.2.1 China
00:16:18 2.2.2 India
00:17:36 2.2.3 Japan
00:19:51 2.2.4 Malaysia
00:20:38 2.2.5 Middle East
00:21:43 2.2.6 Pakistan
00:22:11 2.2.7 Philippines
00:23:39 2.2.8 South Korea
00:24:45 2.2.9 Thailand
00:26:30 2.2.10 Uzbekistan
00:27:16 2.3 Australia
00:30:21 2.4 South Africa
00:34:55 2.5 Europe
00:38:53 2.5.1 Poland
00:40:16 2.5.2 Russia
00:41:41 2.6 South America
00:42:27 2.6.1 Argentina
00:45:30 2.6.2 Brazil
00:47:47 2.6.3 Chile
00:48:24 2.6.4 Ecuador
00:48:54 2.6.5 Venezuela
00:49:24 2.6.6 Colombia
00:50:05 2.6.7 Trinidad and Tobago
00:52:23 3 Vehicle models
00:52:33 4 Sport
00:52:53 4.1 NASCAR
00:53:46 4.2 IndyCar
00:55:05 4.3 Tudor United SportsCar Championship
00:55:53 4.4 FIA World Touring Car Championship
00:56:26 4.5 British Touring Car Championship
00:56:45 4.6 British football
00:57:42 5 Marketing
00:57:51 5.1 Chevrolet bowtie logo
01:00:23 5.2 Typography
01:01:27 5.3 100th anniversary
01:02:41 5.4 Advertising
01:08:52 5.4.1 Controversy over reliability claims
01:09:58 5.5 Marketing agency
01:12:38 5.6 Chevrolet-only naming attempt
01:14:13 6 Watches
01:15:36 7 See also
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Chevrolet ( SHEV-rə-LAY), colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the company on November 3, 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant's second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim a car for every purse and purpose, would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T in 1919 and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by 1929.Chevrolet-branded vehicles are sold in most automotive markets worldwide. In Oceania, Chevrolet is represented by GM subsidiary Holden, having returned to the region in 2018 after a 50-year absence with the launching of the Camaro and Silverado pickup truck. In 2005, Chevrolet was relaunched in Europe, primarily selling vehicles built by GM Daewoo of South Korea with the tagline Daewoo has grown up enough to become Chevrolet, a move rooted in General Motors' attempt to build a global brand around Chevrolet. With the reintroduction of Chevrolet to Europe, GM intended Chevrolet to be a mainstream value brand, while GM's traditional European standard-bearers, Opel of Germany, and Vauxhall of United Kingdom would be moved upmarket. However, GM reversed this move in late 2013, announcing that the brand would be withdrawn from Europe, with the exception of the Camaro and Corvette in 2016. Chevrolet vehicles will continue to be marketed in the CIS states, including Russia. After General Motors fully acquired GM Daewoo in 2011 to create GM Korea, the last usage of the Daewoo automotive brand was discontinued in its native South Korea and succeeded by Chevrolet.
In North America, Chevrolet produces and sells a wide range of vehicles, from subcompact automobiles to medium-duty commercial trucks. Due to the prominence and name recognition of Chevrolet as one of General Motors' global marques, Chevrolet, Chevy or Chev is used at times as a synonym for General Motors or its products, one example being the GM LS1 engine, commonly known by the name or a variant thereof of its progenitor, the ...