. A short history of art . m the Orient with a great skill in the rendering ofvalues. He was one of the first to essay the problem ofuniting in one picture the effects of natural and artificiallight, an example of it being his Femme Qui se ChaufFe, inthe Luxembourg. His pictures are marvels of subtle andsensuous luminosity, and he has attempted to work out thesame problems of light in mural decorations, witness thosein the Sorbonne. Other decorators are Paul Baudry (1828-1886), whosework in the Paris Opera House shows him to have been askilful adapter of the principles of composition adoptedby
. A short history of art . m the Orient with a great skill in the rendering ofvalues. He was one of the first to essay the problem ofuniting in one picture the effects of natural and artificiallight, an example of it being his Femme Qui se ChaufFe, inthe Luxembourg. His pictures are marvels of subtle andsensuous luminosity, and he has attempted to work out thesame problems of light in mural decorations, witness thosein the Sorbonne. Other decorators are Paul Baudry (1828-1886), whosework in the Paris Opera House shows him to have been askilful adapter of the principles of composition adoptedby the Italians of the sixteenth century. The greatest andmost original decorator- of the century was Pierre Puvis Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) de Chavannes. A visit to the Pantheon in Paris, wherehis work can be studied alongside that of other paint-ers, gives the readiest chance of realising the differencebetween paintings that are really decorative and those whichare merely pictorial on a large scale. Those of Puvis 726. MAURICE DEXIS DECORATIOX A section of blue sky, bright green grass, wtiite blossoms and cos-tumes, and some tender rose and lavender fresh and virginal.
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