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Luc Olivier Merson
1846-1920
French Academic Painter and Illustrator
Stylistically influenced by the following painters - Paul Delaroche, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Pierre-Auguste Cot, and Jean Leon Gerome
Education - École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Cause of Death - Old Age
Description of Luc Olivier Merson's Academic Classicism Painting style
Followers of this movement were influenced by the high standards of the
French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism
and
Romanticism.
Academic Classicism attempted to merge both techniques to create the
perfect style. It is characterized by adhering to a strict manner of
painting, following narrow compositional rules and delicacy of color.
The atmospheric effects are sumptuously luminescent. According to art historian, Walter Pater
"To
produce such effects at all requires all the resources of painting,
with its power of indirect expression, of subordinate but significant
detail, its atmosphere, its foregrounds and backgrounds."
Subject matter often used in Rococo art such historical and genre pictures was fashionable once again. This style favored interpretations of Greek, Roman and Renaissance themes. Imagery often centered around Biblical stories, Arthurian legends and mythology. According to Solomon Gessner, the great German painter and art historian, "By studying the works of Greek sculptors the painter can attain the sublimest conceptions of beauty, and learn what must be added to nature in order to give to the imitation dignity and propriety.
About the Painter
Luc Olivier Merson's brooding pictures, painted in a lucid and meticulous style, had an extraordinary way of revealing a subjects sensual, "natural" qualities and yet, at the same time, create in the viewer an almost theatrical feeling of high drama. He had an affinity with nature, especially its feral and ethereal aspects. Historical accuracy, blithe elegance, and an ethereal atmosphere characterize his mystical painting style.
Principle Painters of Academic Classicism Movement
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, 1817-1900
Adolphe-William Bouguereau1825-1905
Charles Emile August Carolus-Duran, 1837-1917
Leon Francois Comerre, 1850-1916
Pierre-Auguste Cot 1837-1883
Thomas Couture, 1815-1879
Paul Delaroche 1797-1856
Eugene Fromentin, 1820-1876
Jean Leon Gerome, 1824-1904
Jean-Paul Laurens1838-1921
Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel, 1839-1929
Luc Olivier Merson, 1846-1920
Hans Makart, 1840 - 1884
Giulio Rosati, 1858-1917
Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1805-1873
William Clarke Wontner, 1857-1930
Fritz Zuber-Buhler, 1822-1896
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