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    Tonalism

    Spanning the late 1880s to the 1920s, tonalism incorporated the use of subtle colour tones, and to quote the man who ‘wrote the book’ on tonalism, David Adams Cleveland, it is “an art about the feeling or mood evoked by the arrangement of landscape elements to project an emotion, rather than a realistic or representational depiction of a certain place.“ In my own application of tonalism I try to stir the feeling of timelessness of a landscape. I have felt it when I gazed pensively over a meadow and felt as if I could be anyone standing there at any time period… an ancestor from a bygone era. Tonalism really…