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Alexander Cozens (c.1717—1786) foi um desenhista e escritor britânico de origem russa, e pai de John Robert Cozens, aquarelista. Técnica. Cozens é conhecido como o primeiro grande paisagista inglês.
Alexander Cozens (1717–1786) was a British landscape painter in watercolours, born in Russia, in Saint Petersburg. He taught drawing and wrote treatises on the subject, evolving a method in which imaginative drawings of landscapes could be worked up from abstract blots on paper.
Alexander Cozens (born 1717, St. Petersburg, Russia—died April 23, 1786, London) was a Russian-born British draftsman and painter who, along with his son John Robert Cozens, was one of the leading watercolourists of the 18th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn about Alexander Cozens (1717–1786), a British artist who painted watercolour landscapes and invented a method of drawing from abstract blots. See 237 artworks by Cozens in Tate Britain, including his son John Robert Cozens.
English landscape draughtsman. Cozens was one of the first major British artists to work exclusively as a landscapist and he helped to bring intellectual respectability to his speciality by stressing its poetic and imaginative qualities rather than its topographical function.
Learn how the eighteenth century artist Alexander Cozens developed a radical method of drawing landscapes from imagination using watercolour and blotting. Explore his treatise, his blot drawings and his influence on later art movements.
This mountainous landscape with a rocky, sundrenched foreground and a winding riverbed or valley is a beautiful example of the kinds of imaginary views Alexander Cozens produced during the 1770s and 1780s.
