Information AboutPaul-albert Besnard |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT PAUL-ALBERT BESNARD | |
| 1849 births | |
| besnard, paul albert | |
| 1934 deaths | |
| people from paris | |
| french painters | |
| prix de rome winners | |
| impressionist painters | |
| members of the académie française | |
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He was born in Paris and studied at the École Des Beaux-Arts , winning the Prix De Rome in 1874. Until about 1880 he followed the academic tradition, but then broke away completely, and devoted himself to the study of colour and light as conceived by the Impressionists . The realism of this group never appealed to his bold imagination, but he applied their technical method to ideological and decorative works on a large scale, such as his Fresco es at the Sorbonne , the Ecole de Pharmacie, the Salle des Sciences at the Hôtel De Ville , the ''mairie'' of the Ier Arrondissement , and the chapel of Berck hospital, for which he painted twelve Stations of the Cross in an entirely modern spirit. A great virtuoso, he achieved brilliant successes alike in Watercolour , Pastel , Oil and Etching , both in portraiture, in landscape and in decoration. A good example of his daring unconventionality is his portrait of Madame Réjane ; and his close analysis of light can be studied in his picture "Femme qui se chauffe at the Luxembourg in Paris." REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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