In the 1780s his rational brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical strictness, heightened feeling chiming with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Rgime. His technique as a painter was academically above reproach. Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the greatest painter of the era. The central contradiction of his career is that although he was held up as the guardian of classical rules and precepts, it is his personal obsessions and mannerisms that make him such a great artist. I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator." He was a bourgeois with the limitations of a bourgeois mentality but as Baudelaire remarked, his finest works 'are the product of a deeply sensuous nature'. His exemplars, he once explained, were "the great masters which flourished in that century of glorious memory when Raphael set the eternal and incontestable bounds of the sublime in art. A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugene Delacroix. Though he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest inheritance. Millet: 104 Paintings and DrawingsMaria Tsaneva, The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250 - 1900. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter.
107 Paintings and Watercolors (Annotated Masterpieces) (Volume 36)Maria Tsaneva.
This Art Book with Foreword and annotated reproductions by Maria Tsaneva contains 106 selected paintings and drawings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. A Brush with Napoleon: An Encounter with Jacques-Louis David (Art.
0 kommentar(er)
