. Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme . Ger6mes. This and The Slave cithers of this artists works tint arc severely criticised by sensitivejudges as oi a harsh coldness, become, in their full suggestion, oi a nature toproduce deep feeling, a thrilling sensation oi anger or pity for the wrongdepicted. This power is inherent in the wide gamut across which the antithesesrepresented in them sweep in the contrast to the absence oi all feeling, oisuch extreme provocatives to feeling. The effect, where, as with (.the scene is given with no strain oi fact, hut by simply the reve
. Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme . Ger6mes. This and The Slave cithers of this artists works tint arc severely criticised by sensitivejudges as oi a harsh coldness, become, in their full suggestion, oi a nature toproduce deep feeling, a thrilling sensation oi anger or pity for the wrongdepicted. This power is inherent in the wide gamut across which the antithesesrepresented in them sweep in the contrast to the absence oi all feeling, oisuch extreme provocatives to feeling. The effect, where, as with (.the scene is given with no strain oi fact, hut by simply the revelations ofan instant, is thrilling. It is the significant point ol these subjects, the one onwhich, we may con lecture, their .selection hinged, and evinces a keen appreciationby the artist of the means ol exciting emotion. It is also illustrated mostpowerfully in that selected moment ol the Duel after the Masquerade, when. Illl AND WORKS Of /AM ifj>\ G&RdMl 21 Death, grim and relentless, not as a mask easily thrown off, comes among themasqueraders al their invitation, and the victor, in the character of a chief ol theIroquois, and his second, forgetting thai he is Harlequin, turn indifferentl}leaving the pallid victim, with Ins mask oi Pierrot dashed aside, to die in Un-arms of his second, dressed as the Duke ol Guise. The horror here is againdoubled by the antithesis. Through and through it, in all the contours, in theattitudes, even in the back oi the receding victor, is apparenl the significance,which Gerdmes patient study of nature can so well express. In all Ins worksmay be traced this clear, direct, epigrammatic presentation. Tnih Ins pictures are hut reports ot scenes, acts, incidents; hut in Ins hands th.\ Lpletely 31 tpe becoming a purely literary art. lie simplifies them into tin- presentationot the essential and significant verities, and unconcernedly leaves them to impressas they may.
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