Thomas Couture and the Evolution of Painting in Nineteenth-Century France

• Autor: Boime, Albert
• Assuntos: Abstract art ; Art museums ; Art sketches ; Arts ; Baptism ; Ceremonies ; Emperors ; Empresses ; Family archives ; Volunteerism
• É parte de: The Art bulletin (New York, N.Y.), 1969-03, Vol.51 (1), p.48-56
• Descrição: Few artists of the nineteenth century worked so torturously and so much against their personal instincts as did Thomas Couture. 1 Indeed, for many artists of the period whom we classify as belonging to the juste milieu group-painters striving to conciliate avant-garde and conservative tendencies-compromise was a source of painful confusion. 2 Compromise here implied a conflict between the priorities of the past and the demands of the present. Sensitive artists among this group found their own time valid for pictorial themes and experienced a deep sense of personal independence, but their commitment to the classical ethos hampered the full expression of this outlook. Less confident than, for example, Delacroix or Courbet, they nervously sought a style capable of reconciling their longing for traditional forms with their anxiety to be modern. The tension between an inner need for direct participation in a changing contemporary world and the desire to achieve the high status accorded the traditional painter is perhaps most marked in Couture's life and work.
  
• Editor: New York, etc: Taylor & Francis
  
• Idioma: Inglês