Thomas Alexander Harrison

realism

Harrison Paintings 1853 - 1930 English Landscape Genre Painter

In Arcadia, 1886

oil on canvas, 197 x 290 cm, 77 x 114 in.

Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Nude Art

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OIL PAINTING: In Arcadia, 1886
Harrison's In Arcadia was shown at the 1886 Salon and received enormous critical praise, and its creator was hailed as the successor to Bastien Lepage. Painted at least partly out of doors in an orchard, In Arcadia presented a nude subject on an epic scale, and treated naturalistically rather than heroically. Bastien's pictures of peasant life were grounded in harsh reality. But Harrison took plein airiste painting in a different direction, to a voluptuous sensory experience, the dappled fall of sunlight and languid figures creating a languid vision of perfection. Its conception is reminiscent of Old Master paintings of the Golden Age, with nymphs and satyrs besporting themselves in an ideal landscape; but Harrison has created something dynamically different, entirely radical in its naturalistic approach, advanced technique and treatment of warm light and shade.
The New English Art Club painters centered around Sickert and Steer greatly admired it, and it was included in their secon