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See also:PAUL See also:ALBERT See also:BESNARD (1849— ) , See also:French painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris and studied at the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux-Arts, winning the Prix de See also:Rome in 1874 . Until about 188o he followed the See also:academic tradition, but then See also:broke away completely, and devoted himself to the study of See also:colour and See also:light as conceived by the impressionists . The See also:realism of this See also:group never appealed to his bold See also:imagination, but he applied their technical method to ideological and decorative See also:works on a large See also:scale, such as his frescoes at the See also:Sorbonne, the Ecole de Pharmacie, the Salle des Sciences at the hotel de ville, the mairie of the first See also:arrondissement, and the See also:chapel of See also:Berck See also:hospital, for which he painted twelve " Stations of the See also:Cross " in an entirely See also:modern spirit . A See also:great virtuoso, he achieved brilliant successes alike in See also:water-colour, See also:pastel, oil and See also:etching, both in See also:portraiture, in landscape and in decoration . A See also:good example of his daring unconventionality is his portrait of Madame See also:Rejane; and his See also:close See also:analysis of light can be studied in his picture " Femme qui se chauffe " at the Luxembourg in Paris . |
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