Jean-Paul Laurens

See also: Laurens

Jean-Paul Laurens , born with Fourquevaux in 1838 and died in Paris in 1921 is a painter and sculptor French.

Biography

Raise Leon Cogniet and of Alexandre Bida, Jean-Paul Laurens is emblematic academic art in his twilight. It would be for as much quite unjust presenting it only like one painter “fireman” among others, his scholarship, its rigor, the political standpoint which constitute its painting and its indisputable talent clearly make it leave the batch.

Republican convictions and of a Anticlericalism posted, Laurens will have primarily covered at the same time historical and religious subjects, put in scene of manner dramatic and been useful by a hyper-realistic technique. It has a perfect command of the representation of the vacuum in painting what gives to many its tables an impressive suggestive power: thus can one imagine the vacuum which is made around Robert the Piles from the foreground creating a gaping between the spectator and the subject as if the public were with the theater.

Perhaps they precede the historical frescos of the beginnings of the cinema. Laurens was also the author of large building sites of decoration: arch steel with the Town hall of Paris, the death of holy Genevieve to the the Pantheon of Paris, ceiling of the Théâtre of Odéon (1888), room of Famous with the Capitole of Toulouse. Draftsman out-par, it will illustrate in particular the Récits of times mérovingiens of Augustin Thierry.

Appreciated teacher of its pupils to the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts of Paris, it had two wire painters, Paul Albert Laurens (1870 - 1934) and Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875 - 1932) which will be both teachers with the Académie Julian.

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