![]() Similarly, Dubois-Pillet’s Portrait of Monsieur Pool conveys the eerie vacuity and fragility of masculinity. Her pale skin, despite the artifice of maquillage, seems bloodless, and her subdued white dress, with the corsage of purple hydrangea on her bosom, does nothing to impart life to its wearer. Sitting against the herbaceous arabesques-crawling and spreading uncontrollably behind her, taking over the indeterminate pictorial space like some invasive species-Mademoiselle B. ![]() Indeed, it is hard not to think that there is something wrong with Mademoiselle B. Guggenheim Foundation, 1968, 14)įrom Dubois-Pillet’s brush-tips issue the haze, disorientation, a not entirely pleasant sense of unreality, and disintegration marking the alchemical aspect of Neo-Impressionism that the Symbolists prized. At other times, the remarkable vibrations of color makes us think of the artist as the opposite of the robot, as a kind of alchemist who concocts his chromatic fantasies out of the vials and philtres of scientific theory, and who surrounds himself with the mumbo-jumbo of pseudo-scientific explanations. At certain times we sense the methodical structure so strongly that we are inclined to dismiss the artist as a mere automaton, who must have filled his picture with thousands of piston-like movements of his arm, no more inspired than a man on an assembly line who repeats the same motion over and over again. rubs our mind with contradictory feelings. 1887) recall what Robert Herbert said nearly half a century ago about Neo-Impressionism:Ī Neo-Impressionist painting. or The Lady in the White Dress (1886–87) and Portrait of Monsieur Pool (ca. Félix Fénéon-the real stunners of this exhibition are Belgian and Dutch artists, such as William Jelley, Georges Lemmen, George Morren, Jan Toorop, and Henry van de Velde.Īmong the first four paintings in Gallery 1, Dubois-Pillet’s quirky Portrait of Mademoiselle B. Despite Paul Signac’s customary appearance as a quintessential Neo-Impressionist-he is represented by three paintings, including the 1890 Portrait of M. These words accompany a line of four portraits (one by Vincent van Gogh, two by Albert Dubois-Pillets, and one by Achille Laugé), which in turn reveal exciting curatorial minds at work- Face to Face is not yet another exhibition with an object list recycling famous works by famous names. “While George Seurat was the founder of the Neo-Impressionist movement, he was not the first to create portraits in the style”: so announces an initial wall text for Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886–1904 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, curated by Ellen W. Performance Art/Performance Studies/Public Practice.Museum Practice/Museum Studies/Curatorial Studies/Arts Administration.Drawings/Prints/Work on Paper/Artistc Practice.Digital Media/New Media/Web-Based Media. ![]() Architectural History/Urbanism/Historic Preservation.Subject, Genre, Media, Artistic Practice.Along with period photographs and letters, this scrapbook contains 187 reproductions, including seldom-seen, pleasing pictures by such artists as Jongkind, Zandomeneghi, Bazille, Boudin, Lhuillier, Morisot, Caillebotte, Marie Bracquemond. We see Manet at 30 trying to shock and provoke the fashionable world that he aspired to be part of, but which rejected him. Bonafoux (Rembrandt Self-Portrait has stitched together an episodic and disjointed narrative that nevertheless offers rewarding glimpses of the impressionists at work and play, while also reproducing many of their portraits and other paintings. Renoir painted Sisley Manet sketched Monet Cezanne sat for Pissarro, while Felix Nadar photographed nearly everybody. The portraits they made of each other and of themselves crystallized their common ways of seeing. Summary: The French impressionists gave each other advice and help despite their rivalries and disputes. Subjects: Impressionism (Art) -France -Painting, French -19th century -Impressionist artists -France -Portraits -Correspondence. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. An exceptional copy fine in an equally fine dw.
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