Category: French Literature
“L’IMPRESSIONISME, ELLE EST DIGNE DE NOTRE ADMIRATIVE ATTENTION, ET NOUS POUVONS RATIONNELLEMENT CROIRE QUE, AUX YEUX DES GÉNÉRATIONS FUTURES, ELLE JUSTIFIERA CETTE FIN DE SIÈCLE DANS L’HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DE L’ART”
“L’IMPRESSIONISME, ELLE EST DIGNE DE NOTRE ADMIRATIVE ATTENTION, ET NOUS POUVONS RATIONNELLEMENT CROIRE QUE, AUX YEUX DES GÉNÉRATIONS FUTURES, ELLE JUSTIFIERA CETTE FIN DE SIÈCL...
2. CHAPTER II · “THE FORERUNNERS.” JONGKIND, BOUDIN, AND CEZANNE“ILS PRENNENT LA NATURE ET ILS LA RENDENT, ILS LA RENDENT VUE À TRAVERS LEURS TEMPÉRAMENTS PARTICULIERS. CHAQUE ARTISTE VA NOUS DONNER AINSI UN MONDE DIFFÉRENT, ET J’ACCEPTERAI...
3. CHAPTER III · EDOUARD MANET (1832-1883)FOR over twenty years the technique and methods of Edouard Manet were a subject for the most virulent debate. His art, in fact, became the scene of a battle in which every paint...
4. CHAPTER IV · THE IMPRESSIONIST GROUP, 1870-1886THE outbreak of the Franco-German War in 1870 scattered far and wide the little group that congregated at the Café Guerbois, and had a curious effect upon the evolution of their...
5. CHAPTER V · CLAUDE MONETCLAUDE MONET is one of the few fortunate painters whose fame is not posthumous, and whose material recompense runs parallel with the merit of their production. He, above all oth...
6. CHAPTER VI · PISSARRO, RENOIR, SISLEYTHE artists who accepted originally the title of Impressionists numbered about fifty in all, and a complete list of their names can be found in the catalogues of the eight exhib...
7. CHAPTER VII · SOME YOUNGER IMPRESSIONISTS: CARRIÈRE, POINTELIN, MAUFRAEUGÈNE Carrière is one of those great artists so prolific in France who alone would make the fame of any ordinary country. For his work the writer has always had deep sympathy,...
8. CHAPTER VIII · “REALISTS”: RAFFAËLLI, DEGAS, TOULOUSE-LAUTRECJEAN FRANÇOIS RAFFAËLLI joined the Impressionist movement late, and did not commence to exhibit with the other members of the group until 1880, when he sent a canvas to the gall...
9. CHAPTER IX · THE “WOMEN-PAINTERS”: BERTHE MORISOT, MARY CASSATT, MARIEAMONGST the artists who contributed paintings to the eight exhibitions of the Impressionist group are four women, who were influenced by the new methods: Mdlle. Berthe Morisot,...
10. CHAPTER X · “LA PEINTURE CLAIRE”: CLAUS, LE SIDANER, BESNARD,“TOUT HOMME QUI NE RESSEMBLE PAS AUX AUTRES, DEVIENT PAR LA MÊME UN OBJET DE DÉFIANCE. DÈS QUE LA FOULE NE COMPREND PLUS, ELLE RIT. IL FAUT TOUTE UNE ÉDUCATION POUR FAIRE ACCEPT...
11. CHAPTER XI · AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISTS: WHISTLER, HARRISON, HASSAMMR. WHISTLER’S personality was one of the most striking in the art world of the last forty years, and his death was an irreparable loss. That he will rank as one of the greatest...
12. CHAPTER XII · A GERMAN IMPRESSIONIST, MAX LIEBERMANNGERMANY has been strongly affected by the French movement, as in fact has been the whole of the Continent. Any person who can remember the state of art in the Fatherland twenty...
13. CHAPTER XIII · INFLUENCES AND TENDENCIESIT is the fashion nowadays amongst a certain class of art-critics to adopt the pessimistic note. They laud the past, deplore the present, and display sympathetic alarm for the f...