Eugene Fromentin
1820-1876
French Academic Genre Painter
Stylistically influenced by the following painters -Jean- Corot, Eugène Delacroix, Paul Delaroche, Adolphe-William Bouguereau,and Pierre-Auguste Cot,
About the Painter
A diligent painter, Eugene Fromentin rose at sunrise, painted while there was good light and only indulged in social amusements at night. His paintings showed great originality, merging his conventional classical interests with the exoticism of the Middle East. He recoded his surrounding with great passion on his travels for later incorporation into his paintings.
Description of Eugene Fromentin's Academic Classicism Painting style
Followers of this movement were influenced by the high standards of the
French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism
and
Romanticism.
Academic Classicism attempted to merge both techniques to create the
perfect style. It is characterized by adhering to a strict manner of
painting, following narrow compositional rules and delicacy of color.
The atmospheric effects are sumptuously luminescent. According to art historian, Walter Pater
"To
produce such effects at all requires all the resources of painting,
with its power of indirect expression, of subordinate but significant
detail, its atmosphere, its foregrounds and backgrounds."
Subject matter often used in Rococo art such historical and genre pictures was fashionable once again. This style favored interpretations of Greek, Roman and Renaissance themes. Imagery often centered around Biblical stories, Arthurian legends and mythology. According to Solomon Gessner, the great German painter and art historian, "By studying the works of Greek sculptors the painter can attain the sublimest conceptions of beauty, and learn what must be added to nature in order to give to the imitation dignity and propriety.
Associated Painters
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, 1817-1900
Adolphe-William Bouguereau1825-1905
Charles Emile August Carolus-Duran, 1837-1917
Leon Francois Comerre, 1850-1916
Pierre-Auguste Cot 1837-1883
Thomas Couture, 1815-1879
Paul Delaroche 1797-1856
Eugene Fromentin, 1820-1876
Jean Leon Gerome, 1824-1904
Jean-Paul Laurens1838-1921
Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel, 1839-1929
Luc Olivier Merson, 1846-1920
Hans Makart, 1840 - 1884
Giulio Rosati, 1858-1917
Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1805-1873
William Clarke Wontner, 1857-1930
Fritz Zuber-Buhler, 1822-1896
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