Page loaded successfully. Showing keywords for Howard Chesner Behrens.
Artist Keywords
Keywords page for Howard Chesner Behrens ((1933 - 2014)), known for Light filled palette knife painting, figure, landscape, marine genre. Showing associated keywords and tags.
Howard Chesner Behrens KEYWORDS
1933 Chicago, Illinois - 2014 District of Columbia. Known for: Light filled palette knife painting, figure, landscape, marine genre.
Born in 1933 in Chicago and growing up in Washington DC acclimated Howard Behrens to historic painted works in the respective museums of each city. After earning his Masters Degree in Painting and... Read full biography
Born in 1933 in Chicago and growing up in Washington DC acclimated Howard Behrens to historic painted works in the respective museums of each city. After earning his Masters Degree in Painting and Sculpture in 1964 from The University of Maryland, he began a career that has led him to every end of... Read full biography
Born in 1933 in Chicago and growing up in Washington DC acclimated Howard Behrens to historic painted works in the respective museums of each city. After earning his Masters Degree in Painting and Sculpture in 1964 from The University of Maryland, he began a career that has led him to every end of the globe and back, to find and paint scenes of intense beauty. He has a style that likens itself to the Impressionists of the late nineteenth century, a mixture of Monet, Courbet, Corot and Pissarro-... Read full biography
Born in 1933 in Chicago and growing up in Washington DC acclimated Howard Behrens to historic painted works in the respective museums of each city. After earning his Masters Degree in Painting and Sculpture in 1964 from The University of Maryland, he began a career that has led him to every end of the globe and back, to find and paint scenes of intense beauty. He has a style that likens itself to the Impressionists of the late nineteenth century, a mixture of Monet, Courbet, Corot and Pissarro- with flair all its own. His use of the palette knife has garnered him the recognition world-wide as the modern master of the technique. An avid world traveler, his magnificent on-location paintings of Mexico, Italy, France, Hawaii, the Caribbean,... Read full biography
Born in 1933 in Chicago and growing up in Washington DC acclimated Howard Behrens to historic painted works in the respective museums of each city. After earning his Masters Degree in Painting and Sculpture in 1964 from The University of Maryland, he began a career that has led him to every end of the globe and back, to find and paint scenes of intense beauty. He has a style that likens itself to the Impressionists of the late nineteenth century, a mixture of Monet, Courbet, Corot and Pissarro- with flair all its own. His use of the palette knife has garnered him the recognition world-wide as the modern master of the technique. An avid world traveler, his magnificent on-location paintings of Mexico, Italy, France, Hawaii, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and United State's coastlines show his marvelous grasp of the colors of his surroundings. Using impasto (thick paint) h... Read full biography
Howard Chesner Behrens - Artist Info
About Howard Chesner Behrens: Keywords
Keywords (23)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Impasto, Heavy Paint
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art Style
- •Contemporary Impressionism, After 1940
- •Expressive, Expressionist, Expressionism
- •Realism/Semi Impressionism
Art Subject
- •Beach Scenes, Bathers, Swimming Genre
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Caribbean Islands
- •France After 1900
- •Giverny, France
- •Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
- •Italy
- •Mexico and/or Central America
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Wally Findlay Galleries