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Identifier: internationalstu75newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, and we see in him this resultcarried out in such a way that we feel the benefitsof the movement in its insistence on simplificationol form. His maxim is, The minimum of meansto win the maximum of expression—that is,emotion. When one considers that he is notmerely not a eolorist but is on the whole incapableof color, that with an austere and at times harshsimplicity he persuades in us strong emotion, anemotion that becomes permanent as we revisit hisworks, we realize how well he uses those giltsthat are his. We appreciate above all that he isendowed with a sentiment for the pictorial, whichhas been strengthened and purified by his studiesand experiments, by the influences ol Ins gition, but which relates him to one ol tindeep-seated and the most enduring traditioithe art of his country, for he is intrin:Frenchman and manifests that vital reand continuity of research and individu.tion, characteristic of the esprit Jrancais in tin The false nai prevalenl l wenty-J i it inceRriACionAL
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has never touched him, paysage de provence BY JEAN MARCHAND and that archaism asso-ciated with so much recent work lias entirelydisappeared from his. We find increasingly thenature of the man in Ins paintings. He lias nofancy, no affectation. His joy is like sorrow. Hehas a deep, sober temperament, kind, sincere, andshy. There is something of pudeur in his inter-pretations. His landscapes do not tell his mostintimate emotion; his figures even when voluptu-ous are so as if the artist merely observed the fact;his nudes, in contrast to the prevailing treatmentof the nude by his contemporaries, have a certainimpersonal discretion. An ensemble of his can-vases, as at the Barbazanges, leaves one with thesensation that life in Paris is gray, dingy, a con-dition that provokes our utmost resistance, thatexacts struggle against ugliness, filth, poverty.Romance is out of date—some say happily—beauty is a term to avoid. But m La Charmille,Les Jardins en terrasse, the Materniteswe have a softe

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