. Art in France. a recording apparatus. There are many signs that it is turningonce more to the classical attitude. Does not the nobility of artlie in the fact that human thought is everywhere present in it ? Butthis new Classicism has not rejected its romantic and naturalisticheritage. Since the time of romantic thought things themselves arepenetrated by sentimentaHty, and the picturesque resources acquiredby the naturalists remain a permanent acquisition. Whereas theClassicists confined their observation to the face and the attitude ofthe body, modern research extends to the inanimate region
. Art in France. a recording apparatus. There are many signs that it is turningonce more to the classical attitude. Does not the nobility of artlie in the fact that human thought is everywhere present in it ? Butthis new Classicism has not rejected its romantic and naturalisticheritage. Since the time of romantic thought things themselves arepenetrated by sentimentaHty, and the picturesque resources acquiredby the naturalists remain a permanent acquisition. Whereas theClassicists confined their observation to the face and the attitude ofthe body, modern research extends to the inanimate regions, andpainters now look for the relations of thought and matter in the physiognomy of landand sky. In this chas-tened naturalism wemay recognise an ancientFrench tradition, trans-mitted by Millet and byPuvis de Chavannes;the classical intellect ofthe Frenchman will onlyabsorb so much of factas it can assimilate with-out loss of lucidity. Asystem, even if limited,is more satisfactory to itthan a mass of ill-organ-. FIG. 901.—CLAUDE MONET. LA GARE SAINT-LAZARE. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) 432 NATURALISM
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