Carriere, Eugene

Born in Gourne (Department of the Seine and the Marne). He studied at the National High School of Fine Arts in Paris under A. Cabanel . In 1871, thanks to a trip to Dresden, Rembrandt discovers for himself. In 1877, he married Sophie Demuko (he had seven children) and went to London, where Turner’s painting impresses him a lot , and his influence is noticeable in the muffled atmosphere of some works of Career. Having returned to Paris, for the first time exposes the painting “Motherhood” in the Salon of 1879 - he will return to this topic more than once. The artist places his characters in an atmosphere of complete peace, free from extraneous details, and concentrates on their inner world. In 1885, Jean Dolan sees in his art the “reality of magic sleep.” ^[one]

In 1890, together with Puvis de Chavannes, he became the founder of the National Society of Fine Arts, where he regularly exhibited. A regular visitor to "Tuesdays" Mallarmé , he is adjacent to the Symbolist movement and claims that "vision is subject to the spirit." Writes portraits of many modern poets and prose writers, including Verlaine , Daudet, Mallarmé, the Goncourt brothers , Anatol France ; writes and Gauguin , who in turn creates a portrait of a career.

He painted genre paintings filled with a sense, especially successfully conveyed the theme of motherhood, the author of a number of religious canvases and psychological portraits. Chamber family scenes Careers are buried in twilight, dissolved in a vague light haze, giving the image an ephemeral, almost unreality - this is also due to the fact that the artist’s vision, not catching all the details of the objective world, allows only to cover the whole picture. Thus, one of his most famous paintings, “Kiss of the Mother,” is designed in a monochrome gamut with the dominance of brownish and dull gray tones, thanks to which the characters depicted by the artist, like memories, come up from the semi-darkness. The soft color of the faces illuminates the outlines of the figures and immerses the viewer in their state of mind. Often, Carriere chose his wife and children as models for his paintings, which is why his works show a special affection in the interpretation of characters. To create an artistic image, he needed to know his model perfectly, to penetrate into her inner world, to merge with her. “I see other people in me and find myself in them; that which excites, enticing, is dear to them, ”he said once. “The power of feeling makes him equal to the greatest poets,” said artist and critic Maurice Denis about Eugene Career. ^[2]

The peculiarity of the style is the deliberate poverty of the palette, which the artist reduced to several shades of gray. On the portraits Career faces seem to come out of the fog - the artist avoids clear contours, sharp shadows, the volume is transmitted only by a gradation of silver tones. The sharp division of the picture into plans is also a distinctive feature of Eugene Carriere's painting.

Vladimir Mayakovsky in the poem “ Theaters ” dedicated the following lines to the original Carriere style:

Car tint lips

in a faded female career,

and with flew torn coats

two fire fox terrier.

Carriere also did lithography and set design. In 1898 he created frescoes for the Sorbonne and the Paris Town Hall. A representative collection of paintings by the artist is in the Paris museum d'Orsay and the Strasbourg Museum of Fine Arts.

Eugene Career begins teaching at the end of the 1880s. From that time until 1905 (when he was forced to retire from all affairs due to illness), he leads a workshop at the private Pallet Academy on Clichy Boulevard, from 1898 to 1902, combines this activity with teaching at Camillo Academy on Vieu Colombier, where he grabs deceased gustave moro . Over time, these two studios begin to be called Career Academy (Fr. Acadèmie Carrière ), although legally organizations with this name never existed (Career Academy is an informal association of artists who were denied other studios and who only wanted to work and exhibit). Among the students of Eugene Career are artists from England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Finland, Norway, Russia, America, Brazil, Mexico and other countries (among others, Henri Matisse and Andre Derain , Jean Puy studied for some time). ^[3]

1. ↑ Read the book Encyclopedia of Symbolism: Painting, Graphics and Sculpture on-line page 21 on booksonline.com.ua. (Neopr.) booksonline.com.ua. The appeal date is February 19, 2017.
2. ↑ E. Career (1849-1904) (Neopr.) . www.artvek.ru. The appeal date is February 19, 2017.
3. ↑ PHENOMENON OF ACADEMY CAREER | RAO (Rus.) . www.art-education.ru. The appeal date is February 19, 2017.

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