French Painting in the XIVth, XVth and XVIth Centuries

Parnassus ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
A. Philip McMahon ◽  
Louis Reau ◽  
Mary Chamot
Keyword(s):  
French Painting

The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century

1972 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
John Adkins Richardson ◽  
Albert Boime
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Painting

Seurat, Georges-Pierre (1859–1891)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn M. Somers
Keyword(s):  
Pablo Picasso ◽  
Henri Matisse ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Sunday Afternoon ◽  
Paul Gauguin ◽  
Vincent Van Gogh ◽  
Painting Technique ◽  
French Painting ◽  
Gallery System ◽  
Figure Paintings

Born in Paris in 1859 to a bourgeois family, painter and draughtsman Georges-Pierre Seurat enjoyed a brief but mature career as the leading French Neo-Impressionist. His invention of Divisionism (or "chromo-luminarism"), a painting technique grounded in science and the study of optics, challenged the spontaneity and fluidity of Impressionism, which by the 1880s had been largely subsumed by a capitalist gallery system. In 1886, at the eighth and final Impressionist exhibition, Seurat debuted his monumental Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande-Jatte (1884–1886), a "patient tapestry" of line and color that led the art critic and activist Félix Fénéon to coin the term néo-impressionisme. Equally shaped by the Renaissance frescoes of Piero della Francesca and the Baudelairean praise of the ephemerality of modern life, La Grande-Jatte symbolically closed a chapter in French painting. Seurat’s systematic aesthetic produced an indelible impact on fin de siècle artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, and later Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay, and André Breton’s Surrealism, firmly establishing him as integral to the 20th-century avant-garde. Seurat’s oeuvre includes approximately 500 drawings and 6 major figure paintings, an astonishing output for a career that lasted only 11 years.

Professions before Professionalism

2007 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sciulli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Sociology Of Professions ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
French Painting ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
Empirical Generalizations

For over seventy years the sociology of professions has revolved around empirical generalizations drawn from four modern exemplars of nineteenth century Britain and United States: law and medicine, science and engineering. We identify qualities constitutive of professionalism in an occupation during the ancien regime, on the Continent, and in a field unrelated to the four just noted: seventeenth century French painting and sculpture. These constitutive qualities point to the significance of a distinctively structural and institutional approach to the sociology of professions.

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