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European masters endeavored to create visions of sensual paradise concurrent with the political utopianism of the age by arraying dabs of pastel to convey gardens, canals and the like while subject, style, and color coaxed and relaxed viewers into bubble-bath bliss. American painters such as Walter Farndon, N.A., took a while to learn of the trends emanating from the Romantic school, but were not long to follow suit...
...Farndon's oils evoke the same, mildly pleasant feelings, soothing and persuading viewers to luxuriate in his images of the ideal moment. Rarely does his subject venture beyond a ship yard or a wharf, a sun-drenched path or a perfectly motionless pond. Thick paint and broad strokes complete his portrayal of utter screnity through the heaviness and fixity of the surface texture of his canvases. Figures are rendered almost motionless, defined only by a few cursory passes of his brush, while those figures standing on a path or in a park as if on a stroll end up pasted...
Over the course of Walter Farndon's long and productive years, the artist America knew in a variety of styles and associated with a variety of movements gathered awards and national recognition without ever achieving the international fame of the masters who influenced his work. For years, Farndon heightened his sense of the delicate harmony of pastel pinks, blues and light greens that modified the color scales made popular by such notables as Monet and the atmospheric exuberance of Renoir before darkening his palette to imitate the growing popularity of the post-impressionists...
...bulk of Farndon's more than 300 oils study the contrast of large dark masses comprised of forest greens, moving to navy blue and brown-black with lighter earth- and autumnal tones. In his most important works, such as Mending the Nets, Farndon displays his receptivity to the emptiness of shadow and the seeming endless depth of murky harbor water. His preoccupation with water runs throughout his work and serves as a motif he returns to again and again through his life...
...voice -- soft one moment, steely the next -- it is assured, bare-knuckle rock 'n' roll. Part of the credit goes to the sturdy rhythm work of returning drummer Martin Chambers, an original Pretender who left the band in 1986 (the other two charter bandmates, James Honeyman Scott and Pete Farndon, died of drug overdoses...