사회현실주의 화가 '토마스 벤자민 케닝턴'

Thomas Benjamin Kennington

1856 - 1916, 영국

사회현실주의 화가 '토마스 벤자민 케닝턴'
출생 : 1856년 4월 7일, 영국 그림즈비
사망 : 1916년 12월 10일, 영국 런던
학력 : Royal College of Art

Thomas Benjamin Kennington (7 April 1856 - 10 December 1916) was an English genre, social realist and portrait painter. He was a founder member of the New English Art Club (NEAC) and the Imperial Arts League.

Kennington was born in Grimsby in Lincolnshire and trained in art at the Liverpool School of Art (winning a gold medal, the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, and the Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied under Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury. He later moved to Chelsea in London.

He exhibited at the Royal Academy, London from 1880-1916, and also regularly showed his work at the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in Suffolk Street and the Grosvenor gallery.

He was a founder member and first secretary of the New English Art Club (from 1886), and also founded the Imperial Arts League, whose stated purpose was to

"protect and promote the interests of Artists and to inform, advise and assist...."

He won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889.

Kennington became known not only for his idealised paintings of domestic and everyday-life scenes but also for his social realist works.

Paintings such as

Orphans (1885; Tate, London),

Widowed and fatherless (1885),

Homeless (1890),

The pinch of poverty (1891)

depicted the harsh realities of life for the poor in Britain in a manner that played on the onlooker's emotions.

It has been suggested that he may have been influenced by the Spanish painter Murillo (1618-1682), whose work also featured street children. He painted in both oils and watercolour.

Kennington died in London on 10 December 1916. His son Eric Kennington (1888-1960) was also a notable artist, illustrator and sculptor. | © Wikipedia

토마스 벤자민 케닝턴은 Lincolnshire의 Grimsby에서 태어났다.

그는 1880-1916 런던 왕립아카데미에서 전시했으며, Surffolk Street의 영국 예술가협회 (Royal Society of British Artists , RBA)와 그로스베너 갤러리에서도 정기적으로 작품을 전시했다.

그는 뉴잉글랜드 아트클럽(1886년부터)의 창립멤버이자 첫 비서였으며 제국주의연맹 (Imperial Arts League)을 창설했다. 케닝턴은 국내 및 일상생활 장면의 그림뿐만 아니라 사회현실주의 작품으로도 유명해졌다.

고아 (1885, 테이트, 런던), 과부와 고아 (1885), 노숙자 (1890), 빈곤의 꼬집음 (1891)과 같은 그림은 영국의 가난한 사람들 삶의 가혹한 현실을 구경꾼의 감정으로 그려냈다. 스페인의 화가 Murillo (1618-1682)의 영향을 받았으리라고 여겨진다.

Kennington은 1916년 12월 10일 런던에서 사망했다. 그의 아들 Eric Kennington (1888-1960)은 주목할 만한 예술가이자 일러스트레이터이자 조각가이기도 하다.

Widowed and Fatherless

Homeless

The Pinch of Poverty

The Letter

A Merry Heart Goes a long way

Autumn

Contemplation

Contemplation

Daily Bread

Adelaide Neilson

Alderman Pendrill, Mayor of Neath

Edward John Bannister, Mayor of Grimsby

Howel Cuthbertson, Mayor of Neath

Lady Elizabeth MacAlister

Portrait of Alexander Garthside White

Portrait of the Artist's Daughter Anne in Russian Costume Holding a Balilaika

Marian Mckenzie

Queen Victoria

A portrait of a lady in a whitee drress with a pink sash by a balustrade

Lady Reading by a Window

Temptation

Maternal Advice

Mother and Daughter

Polishing the Brass

A portrait of a lady in a garden wearing a pink dress holding an iris

Portrait of a Lady in a Pink Dress 

The Letter

Reading the Letter

The Ace of Hearts

The Glory of Womanhood

The Letter

Girl with Doll

The Wedding Dress

Bacchante

Anne as Alice in Wonderland

Chatterboxes 1890

Relaxation 1900

Among the rocks 1880

Curiosity

Pandora

Nest of the dryad

Serena, Found of Savages

The Siesta of Diana

The Mother

A Mother's Love

No! Gossip. 1907

The New Sonnet

A plume of smoke

Idle Hours 1892