![]() ![]() Seeking solace, he returned intermittently to his beloved house and garden in Voulangis, France. Devoting himself to both disciplines, Steichen promoted photography as a fine art equal to painting at a time when photography’s status as an art form was still questioned by many.Īfter pioneering the use of aerial photography for the army during World War I, Steichen suffered bouts of depression, endured a bitter divorce, and faced serious financial challenges. Steichen’s early tonalist paintings correspond with the evocative pictorialist style of his photographs. The most vivid expression of Steichen’s ambition to synthesize nature, photography, and painting is the circular burst of yellow in Le Tournesol that simultaneously evokes the sun, the sunflower, and flash photography.ĭuring the first half of his career, Edward Steichen was the leading exemplar of the painter/photographer in the group of artists who gathered around Alfred Stieglitz in New York. Featuring vibrant color, sharp lines, streamlined forms, and a carefully calibrated, dynamic design based on the Golden Section, the painting places Steichen among the artists who invented the modernist machine style of the 1920s that would come to be known as precisionism. ![]() It is the only finished canvas of its kind to survive from this period. Le Tournesol, made sometime between 19 and given to a friend shortly thereafter, is a product of this volatile moment in Steichen’s artistic evolution. In 1923, at his beloved house and garden in Voulangis, France, Steichen destroyed his backlog of paintings in a bonfire and abandoned the medium in favor of a lucrative career in commercial photography with Condé Nast. Quite effective and nasty! I love it.Having spent World War I as an army major responsible for pioneering the use of aerial photography during World War I, Edward Steichen suffered bouts of depression, endured a bitter divorce, and faced serious financial challenges. ![]() To summarise, they’re both pretty good! I like em.Įdit: forgot to even mention Leontina’s battledore effect, which isn’t too hard to pull off (especially if you try playing a copy of Megalorude like a few people in this topic have suggested) and it’s until END OF TURN, which means if you happen to run any more combo extenders that result in more superior calls (like the Alice-Ginny-Leslie loop in Premium) your opponent has to double guard everything you can call after. The G-Guard is an interesting mix of set up and disruption- on most occasions they’re only going to send a stood boosting RG into soul, but depending on your timing, you can really avoid a whole attack if you’re lucky, WHILE also turning combo pieces and low shield value in hand into +10ks. The cherry on top is that she activates on attack, which helps with multi attack- even if your field is full, she can just help you get a new field- and if it’s not, she can effectively double the number of RG you have (provided your soul is stacked enough). I sort of like that she doesn’t work with Darklord Princess too, and I say that as an avid PM fan- it would just be a bit too much, and I think the fact her calls are permanent give her an interesting niche- I think she’s the only generic mass permanent board population effect available in your G Zone. Leontina gives us an easy way to do permanent mass calls for a fair cost- effectively doubling your field presence in a way Harri/Yvette can’t do, making her valuable in decks like Premium Silver Thorn, and Premium PM Greedon. ![]()
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