. Art in France. FIG. 891.—MANET. BREAKFAST UN THE CRASS. (Moreau-Nelaton Collection.) 427 The method of painting by juxta-posing small particles of pure colour. ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 8q2. STEINLEN. MASONS WATCHING A FUNERALPASSING. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) assume. Degas is one of the masters ofthis art. He chose all the most unex-f ected aspects of reality, and all the mostartificial elements of our society, the worldof theatres and races, jockeys perched onslender tlioroughbreds, or the pirouettes ofballet dancers (Fig. 905). Forain is cfthe same school; he describes the worldof the Stock Exch
. Art in France. FIG. 891.—MANET. BREAKFAST UN THE CRASS. (Moreau-Nelaton Collection.) 427 The method of painting by juxta-posing small particles of pure colour. ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 8q2. STEINLEN. MASONS WATCHING A FUNERALPASSING. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) assume. Degas is one of the masters ofthis art. He chose all the most unex-f ected aspects of reality, and all the mostartificial elements of our society, the worldof theatres and races, jockeys perched onslender tlioroughbreds, or the pirouettes ofballet dancers (Fig. 905). Forain is cfthe same school; he describes the worldof the Stock Exchange, of politics and ofthe theatre, and loves to show thesemodern powers, the financier, the deputv,and the dancer, in juxtaposition. He willbe accounted the Daumier of our age;but Daumier was always a Romanticist,burning with generous rage; Forainsdrawing, abrupt and decisive, carries acold, insulting irony in its brutal , the draughtsman of bare suburbsand swarming streets, of wretched tatter-demalions and small tradespeople, shouldalso perhaps be classed with these studentsof characteristic traits (Fig. 89J). Steinlcn is not a draughtsman ofthis group
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