The Venetian Experience

The Venetian Experience

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With host artist, James Asher .

Venice is a painter’s paradise. Around every corner, over every graceful bridge is a magical composition waiting to be captured by you.

Every artist must experience Venice at least once in a lifetime.

The journey planned for you is the ultimate artist’s fantasy. You will fly to Venice where a private water taxi will pick you up for the trip across the lagoon to the dock of one of the most elegant hotels in all of Venice. This is the perfect location, only minutes from the very heart of the city

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Painting locations have been planned with care and attention not only to visual interest and variety, but also for the convenience of the artists. Some of the iconic scenes are included, of course, but we will also experience the quiet canals and charming sights seldom visited by tourists. Expect to walk in the footsteps of Sargent, Turner, and Whistler. We will have access to a very special location never before available to any group of artists exclusive to the Passport and Palette guests.

Paint for a day at the most colorful of all the islands in the Venetian lagoon. The houses and their reflections in the canals will demand your entire palette of colors. Our own private boat will make the journey to the island convenient and relaxing.

One morning is planned for you to tour one of the factories making the most famous glass in the world. Some afternoon will be free to allow you to discovers your own treasures.You may choose to find your own painting location, give in to some shopping or just relax. From the welcome dinner to the final private and group painting critique with cocktails, your experience in Venice has been designed to delight the artist in you and to inspire memories for a lifetime.

James Asher attended Central Missouri University on an art scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Art Center College of design in Los Angeles, California.

While studying at the Art center, he developed a dedication to traditional painting techniques. For a short while he pursed a career in advertising, but soon became restless and returned to his passion for painting. He moved to Arizona and saturated himself with the lore of the cowboy and the Pueblo Indian culture. He traveled often to Mexico and painted the markets there.

Then, in 1982, after a severe bout with an allergy to turpentine, he reacquainted himself with watercolor. As his interest in watercolor evolved, his interest in subject matter broadened. His first London show inspired his first large body of European subjects. From his studio in Santa Fe, he travels and paints on location around the world. Painting destinations have included France, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, England, Chile, Kashmir, Mexico and the western United States.

His many exhibitions include The Gilcrease Museum, The National Museum of Taiwan, The Albuquerque Museum of Fine Art, The Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, The fine Arts Museum of Santa Fe, Artists of America at the Denver Historical Society and the Royal Watercolor Society of London.

Asher has been profiled in American Artist, Southwest art, Western Art Digest, and many other prestigious art publications. He has authored articles for the Artist's Magazine and Watercolor Magic. He currently exhibits his watercolor paintings at the Zaplin-Lampert Gallery in Santa Fe.

Tonalism Movement

Artists by Movement:
Tonalism

America, circa 1880 to 1910 Tonalism is a style of painting in which landscapes are depicted in soft light and shadows, often as if through a colored or misty veil. Imported to the U.S. by American painters inspired by Barbizon School landscapes, it was a forerunner to the many schools and colonies of American Impressionism which arose in the first part of the 20th century. The most influential practitioners of the style were George Inness, whose roots were in landscape painting, and James McNeill Whistler, whose approach was primarily aesthetic, aiming for elegance and harmony in the colors of a painting. Tonalism's soft-edged realism also had an influence on the photography of the early 20th century - specifically on Alfred Stieglitz and his circle.

Chronological Listing of Abstract Expressionists

George Fuller	1822-1884	American Painter
William Morris Hunt	1824-1879	American Painter
George Inness	1825-1894	American Painter	Art Prints
James McNeill Whistler	1834-1903	American Painter/Printmaker	Art Prints
John La Farge	1835-1910	American Painter	Art Prints
Homer Dodge Martin	1836-1897	American Painter
Alexander Helwig Wyant	1836-1892	American Painter
Maria A'Becket	1840-1904	American Painter
Robert Swain Gifford	1840-1905	American Painter	Art Prints
John J. Enneking	1841-1916	American Painter	Art Prints
Ralph Albert Blakelock	1847-1919	American Painter
Albert Pinkham Ryder	1847-1917	American Painter	Art Prints
Charles Melville Dewey	1849-1937	American Painter
Dwight W. Tryon	1849-1925	American Painter
Charles Harry Eaton	1850-1901	American Painter
Thomas Wilmer Dewing	1851-1938	American Painter	Art Prints
Ben Foster	1852-1926	American Painter
Julian Alden Weir	1852-1919	American Painter	Art Prints
T. Alexander Harrison	1853-1930	American Painter	Art Prints
John Francis Murphy	1853-1921	American Painter	Art Prints
John Henry Twachtman	1853-1902	American Painter	Art Prints
Lowell Birge Harrison	1854-1929	American Painter	Art Prints
Leonard Ochtman	1854-1934	Dutch/American Painter
Charles Harold Davis	1856-1933	American Painter
Franklin de Haven	1856-1934	American Painter
Charles Appel	1857-1928	American Painter
Bruce Crane	1857-1937	American Painter
Charles Warren Eaton	1857-1937	American Painter
Henry Ward Ranger	1858-1916	American Painter
Elliott Daingerfield	1859-1932	American Painter
William Langson Lathrop	1859-1938	American Painter
Charles Paul Gruppe	1860-1940	Canadian/American Painter
Arthur Frank Mathews	1860-1945	American Painter	Art Prints
Karl Emil Termohlen	1863-1938	Danish/American Painter
Leon Dabo	1865-1960	French/American Painter
Louis Paul Dessar	1867-1952	American Painter
Chauncey F. Ryder	1868-1949	American Painter
Henry Percy Gray	1869-1952	American Painter
Xavier Martinez	1869-1943	Mexican/American Painter
Granville Redmond	1871-1935	American Painter
Aaron Harry Gorson	1872-1933	American Painter
Max Meldrum	1875-1955	Scottish/Australian Painter

Post Impressionism

Post-Impressionism France, 1880's to 1900 Post-Impressionism is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of artists who were influenced by Impressionism but took their art in other directions. There is no single well-defined style of Post-Impressionism, but in general it is less idyllic and more emotionally charged than Impressionist work. The classic Post-Impressionists are Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Rousseau and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The Pointillists and Les Nabis are also generally included among the Post-Impressionists.

Chronological Listing of Post-Impressionists

Paul Cezanne	1839-1906	French Painter	Art Prints
Henri Rousseau	1844-1910	French Painter	Art Prints
Paul Gauguin	1848-1903	French Painter	Art Prints
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker	1851-1934	French Painter	Art Prints
Vincent van Gogh	1853-1890	Dutch Painter	Art Prints
Henri Martin	1860-1943	French Painter	Art Prints
Roderic O'Conor	1860-1940	Irish Painter
Charles Filiger	1863-1928	French Painter/Printmaker	Art Prints
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec	1864-1901	French Painter/Printmaker	Art Prints
Suzanne Valadon	1865-1938	French Painter	Art Prints
Roger Fry	1866-1934	English Painter/Writer	Art Prints
Jan Verkade	1868-1946	Dutch Painter
Edouard Vuillard	1868-1940	French Painter	Art Prints Resource: http://www.artcyclopedia.com

The Journey! Impressionism

Impressionism Centered in France, 1860's to 1880's Impressionism is a light, spontaneous manner of painting which began in France as a reaction against the restrictions and conventions of the dominant Academic art. Its naturalistic and down-to-earth treatment of its subject matter, most commonly landscapes, has its roots in the French Realism of Camille Corot and others. The movement's name was derived from Monet's early work, Impression: Sunrise, which was singled out for criticism by Louis Leroy upon its exhibition. The hallmark of the style is the attempt to capture the subjective impression of light in a scene. The core of the earliest Impressionist group was made up of Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Others associated with this period were Camille Pissarro, Frederic Bazille, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte, Edouard Manet, and the American Mary Cassatt. The Impressionist style was probably the single most successful and identifiable "movement" ever, and is still widely practiced today. But as an intellectual school it faded towards the end of the 19th century, branching out into a variety of successive movements which are generally grouped under the term Post-Impressionism.

Chronological Listing of Impressionists

Alphonse Maureau	19th Century	French Painter
Johan Barthold Jongkind	1819-1891	Dutch Painter	Art Prints
Eugene Boudin	1824-1898	French Painter	Art Prints
Camille Pissarro	1830-1903	Caribbean/French Painter	Art Prints
Edouard Manet	1832-1883	French Painter	Art Prints
Martin Rico y Ortega	1833-1908	Spanish Painter
Edgar Degas	1834-1917	French Painter/Sculptor	Art Prints
Stanislas Lepine	1836-1892	French Painter	Art Prints
Alfred Sisley	1839-1899	French Painter	Art Prints
Marie Bracquemond	1840-1916	French Painter	Art Prints
Claude Monet	1840-1926	French Painter	Art Prints
Frederic Bazille	1841-1870	French Painter	Art Prints
John J. Enneking	1841-1916	American Painter	Art Prints
Armand Guillaumin	1841-1927	French Painter	Art Prints
Berthe Morisot	1841-1895	French Painter	Art Prints
Pierre-Auguste Renoir	1841-1919	French Painter	Art Prints
Arthur Parton	1842-1914	American Painter	Art Prints
Emil Jakob Schindler	1842-1892	Austrian Painter	Art Prints
Mary Cassatt	1844-1926	American Painter	Art Prints
Harriet Backer	1845-1932	Norwegian Painter
Luis Jimenez Aranda	1845-1928	Spanish Painter	Art Prints
Max Liebermann	1847-1935	German Painter	Art Prints
Theodore Clement Steele	1847-1926	American Painter
Frits Thaulow	1847-1906	Norwegian Painter	Art Prints
Gustave Caillebotte	1848-1894	French Painter	Art Prints
Lilla Cabot Perry	1848-1933	American Painter	Art Prints
Michael Ancher	1849-1927	Danish Painter	Art Prints
Jean Beraud	1849-1935	Russian/French Painter	Art Prints
William Merritt Chase	1849-1916	American Painter	Art Prints
Eva Gonzales	1849-1883	French Painter	Art Prints
Albert Lebourg	1849-1928	French Painter	Art Prints
John Ottis Adams	1851-1927	American Painter
Richard B. Gruelle	1851-1914	American Painter
Jean-Louis Forain	1852-1931	French Painter/Illustrator	Art Prints
Theodore Robinson	1852-1896	American Painter	Art Prints
Julian Alden Weir	1852-1919	American Painter	Art Prints
John Henry Twachtman	1853-1902	American Painter	Art Prints
Colin Campbell Cooper	1856-1937	American Painter	Art Prints
Henri Moret	1856-1913	French Painter	Art Prints
Edward Henry Potthast	1857-1927	American Painter	Art Prints
Willard Leroy Metcalf	1858-1925	American Painter	Art Prints
Maurice Prendergast	1858-1924	Canadian/American Painter	Art Prints
Medardo Rosso	1858-1928	Italian Sculptor	Art Prints
Helen M. Turner	1858-1958	American Painter
Robert Vonnoh	1858-1933	American Painter	Art Prints
Anna Ancher	1859-1935	Danish Painter
George Elbert Burr	1859-1939	American Painter
George Wharton Edwards	1859-1950	American Painter/Illustrator
Abbott Fuller Graves	1859-1936	American Painter	Art Prints
Childe Hassam	1859-1935	American Painter	Art Prints
Otto Stark	1859-1926	American Painter
Theodore Wendel	1859-1932	American Painter	Art Prints
Laura Muntz Lyall	1860-1930	Canadian Painter	Art Prints
Dennis Miller Bunker	1861-1890	American Painter	Art Prints
Theodore Butler	1861-1936	American Painter
Charles Courtney Curran	1861-1942	American Painter	Art Prints
Walter Griffin	1861-1935	American Painter
George Gardner Symons	1861-1930	American Painter	Art Prints
Frank Weston Benson	1862-1951	American Painter	Art Prints
Frantz Charlet	1862-1928	Belgian Painter	Art Prints
Robert Reid	1862-1929	American Painter	Art Prints
Edmund Charles Tarbell	1862-1938	American Painter	Art Prints
Laureano Barrau	1863-1957	Spanish Painter
Maxime Maufra	1863-1918	French Painter	Art Prints
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida	1863-1923	Spanish Painter	Art Prints
Paul Cornoyer	1864-1923	American Painter	Art Prints
George Loftus Noyes	1864-1951	Canadian/American Painter
Olga Boznanska	1865-1945	Polish Painter
Frank Dumond	1865-1951	American Painter
Philip Leslie Hale	1865-1931	American Painter	Art Prints
William Samuel Horton	1865-1936	American Painter
Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov	1865-1911	Russian Painter	Art Prints
Reynolds Beal	1867-1951	American Painter
William DeLeftwich Dodge	1867-1935	American Painter	Art Prints
Guy Rose	1867-1925	American Painter	Art Prints
Lawton Parker	1868-1954	American Painter
Chauncey F. Ryder	1868-1949	American Painter
Max Slevogt	1868-1932	German Painter	Art Prints
Wilson Irvine	1869-1936	American Painter
Edward Willis Redfield	1869-1965	American Painter	Art Prints
Bessie Potter Vonnoh	1872-1955	American Sculptor
Louis Betts	1873-1961	American Painter
Frank H. Desch	1873-1934	American Painter
Charles Ebert	1873-1959	American Painter
Albert H. Krehbiel	1873-1945	American Painter
Ernest Lawson	1873-1939	Canadian/American Painter	Art Prints
Will Howe Foote	1874-1965	American Painter
Frederick Carl Frieseke	1874-1939	American Painter	Art Prints
Pierre-Eugene Montezin	1874-1946	French Painter
Edward Cucuel	1875-1954	American Painter
Richard Emil Miller	1875-1943	American Painter	Art Prints
Edmund W. Greacen	1876-1949	American Painter
Jane Peterson	1876-1965	American Painter
Gertrude Fiske	1878-1961	American Painter
William Chadwick	1879-1962	American Painter
Helen McNicoll	1879-1915	Canadian Painter
Catherine Wiley	1879-1958	American Painter
Daniel Garber	1880-1958	American Painter	Art Prints
Martha Walter	1880-1976	American Painter	Art Prints
Julian Onderdonk	1882-1922	American Painter	Art Prints
Guy Wiggins	1883-1962	American Painter
Walter Emerson Baum	1884-1956	American Painter
Henrietta Mabel May	1884-1971	Canadian Painter
Fern Isabel Coppedge	1888-1951	American Painter
Louis Ritman	1889-1963	Russian/American Painter
Arthur Hill Gilbert	1894-1970	American Painter
Richard Earl Thompson	1914-1991	American Painter	Resource:http://www.artcyclopedia.com/