부산대학교 도서관

(b Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, July 11, 1864; d Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway, June 30, 1933). Scottish painter. His parents left Australia shortly after his birth and returned to their home town of Kirkcudbright, where Hornel spent most of his life. After studying painting at the Trustees’ Academy in Edinburgh (1880–83) he attended the Antwerp Academy. In 1885 he returned to Scotland and met the painter George Henry, a friend of James Guthrie and a member of the Glasgow Boys. Henry joined Hornel in Kirkcudbright for the summer of 1886, and Hornel adopted the square-brush technique and naturalist manner of Henry and the Glasgow school. Gradually both painters abandoned the tonal painting of earlier years for a more full-bodied palette of strong, clear colour. The wide field of view of their naturalist paintings gave way to more restricted compositions, their experiments culminating in two pictures painted jointly, The Druids (1890) and the Star in the East (1891; both Glasgow, A.G. & Mus.). Their subject-matter increasingly relied on the theme of young girls in a woodland setting, often accompanied by farm animals. These were not the realist subjects of Guthrie and the Glasgow school, however, but were more concerned with the intertwining symbolism of subject, colour, rhythm and pattern, as in ...