Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1941701507
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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Chardin and Rembrandt is an unfinished essay written around 1895 by Marcel Proust. Oft overlooked in Prousts illustrious writing career, this book is a newly translated version by David Zwirner Books as one of the first two entries in its ekphrasis series. This essay is a literary experiment in which an unnamed narrator gives advice to a young man suffering from melancholy, taking him on an imaginary tour through the Louvre where his readings of Chardin imbue the everyday world with new meaning, and his ruminations on Rembrandt take his melancholic pupil beyond the realm of mere objects.
Author: Helene Prigent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Charming yet scholarly, this book explores the work of the French artist Jean Baptiste Sim̌on Chardin, who brought a breath of fresh air to 18th-century painting. His masterful sense of color and light filled his simple domestic interiors and delicate renderings of still lifes with a profound humanism. - Publisher.
Author: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa)
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300099460
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Leading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.
Author: Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344915116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934105474
Category : Genre painting, French
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Adapted from the lecture she delivered at the Institut für Kunstkritik, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth's essay explores the dimension of self-reflexivity in the work of eighteenth-century French painter, Jean-Siméon Chardin. Focusing on the material aspects of Chardin's practice, Lajer-Burcharth asks: In what ways were Chardin's painterly procedures "his own," and what were the implications of his possessive and personalized approach to the process of making? The author delves into these questions by examining a crucial moment in the artist's career, when he, for reasons we can only speculate about, temporarily abandoned his still life practice and turned to painting genre scenes. The essay is joined by responses from Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw, followed by the author's replies. Institut für Kunstkritik Series
Author: Paula Radisich
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644530562
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Pastiche, Fashion and Galanterie in Chardin’s Genre Subjects seeks to understand how Chardin’s genre subjects were composed and constructed to communicate certain things to the elites of Paris in the 1730s and 1740s. The book argues against the conventional view of Chardin as the transparent imitator of bourgeois life and values so ingrained in art history since the nineteenth century. Instead, it makes the case that these pictures were crafted to demonstrate the artist’s wit (esprit) and taste, traits linked to conventions of seventeenth-century galanterie. Early eighteenth-century Moderns like Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699–1779) embraced an aesthetic grounded upon a notion of beauty that could not be put into words—the je ne sais quoi. Despite its vagueness, this model of beauty was drawn from the present, departed from standards of formal beauty, and could only be known through the critical exercise of taste. Though selecting subjects from the present appears to be a simple matter, it was complicated by the fact that the modernizers expressed themselves through the vehicles of older, established forms. In Chardin’s case, he usually adapted the forms of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish genre painting in his genre subjects. This gambit required an audience familiar enough with the conventions of Lowlands art to grasp the play involved in a knowing imitation, or pastiche. Chardin’s first group of enthusiasts accordingly were collectors who bought works of living French artists as well as Dutch and Flemish masters from the previous century, notably aristocratic connoisseurs like the chevalier Antoine de la Roque and Count Carl-Gustaf Tessin. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author: Paul G. Konody
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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"Chardin" by Paul G. Konody is a biography of Chardin's life and artistic development. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work.
Author: Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: U. M. King
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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Author: Louis M. Savary
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 1587685310
Category : Suffering
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Based on the spirituality of Teilhard de Chardin, this book offers a fresh approach to the spiritual lives—the attitudes, activities, and prayers—of those who suffer, by focusing on how the positive power hidden in the potential energy of suffering can help transform our world.
