Modern French Painters

Author : Camille Mauclair
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230278285
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book The Great French Painters; and the Evolution of French Painting from 1830 to the Present Day written by Camille Mauclair and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III THE REALISTS AND THE CHARACTERISTS The realist ideas derived from the influence of Delacroix.--Gust iw Courbst anJ the movement of protest against the ideas of Ingres and the School.--Edouard Manet and the transformation of realism into the investigation of modern character.--The idea of the beauty of expression begins to oppose that of the beaulv of form.--Manet's influence creates the style of modern illustration, after Daumier, Gavarni and Guys.--Degas and characterism.--Raffaelli, Forain.--Bastien-Lepage and minute realism.--The modern painters: Roll, Ribot, Lautrec, etc. OU take the lead in the decrepitude of your art," wrote Baude laire to Manet. This decrepitude the great poet applied to the academic style of Ingres's pupils, while they in turn applied it to the romantic and realistic daring of Delacroix's pupils. Ingres and Delacroix, reconciled to-day in our admiration, were then the protagonists of that old and eternal struggle between the ancient and the modern, the adherents of Gluck and of Piccini. The genius of the one was used as a pretext for denying that of the other, with all the injustice inherent in periods of feverish artistic activity. However, one of the first consequences of Delacroix was the establishment, together with romanticism, of a recrudescence of realism. A historical and orientalist painter, a painter of modern tragedy, Delacroix was also, quite apart from his gifts as decorator and lyricist, an intense realist, and, like all the greatest artists, gave expression to the heroism and the dramatic side of broad, but scrupulous observation of truth. While certain painters cling to his romanticism and to his composition, others cling particularly to his bold qualities of truthfulness, and...