Alleluia · 1896
Post-Impressionism Artist
Thomas Cooper Gotch
British·1854–1931
4 paintings in our database
Gotch represents the Symbolist wing of the late Newlyn School and brought Italian Quattrocento influence into British turn-of-the-century painting.
Biography
Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854–1931) was a British painter associated with the Newlyn School who, after a transformative trip to Italy in 1891, abandoned the colony's plein-air realism for a richly decorative Symbolist manner influenced by early Renaissance Italian altarpieces. His best-known works — The Child Enthroned (1894), Alleluia (1896) — present mystically lit children in elaborate gold-tinged costumes. He helped found the Newlyn Society of Artists.
Artistic Style
Gotch worked in a luminous Symbolist manner with gold-toned color, decorative pattern, and frieze-like composition derived from Italian Quattrocento altarpieces. His subjects emphasize children as figures of spiritual idealism.
Historical Significance
Gotch represents the Symbolist wing of the late Newlyn School and brought Italian Quattrocento influence into British turn-of-the-century painting.
Paintings (4)
Contemporaries
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