DOI Heft:
No. 124 (July, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Keyzer, Frances: The work of Albert Paul Besnard
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19879#0103
Albert Paul Besnard
"l'H0MME moderne a l'ecole DE pharmacie " by albert paul besnard
decoration in the Sorbonne, La Vie renaissant de la a chasm of fire vomiting a pillar of smoke, curling
Mort. The idea is most poetically expressed in the upwards in a dense picturesque mass ; on the right
printed explanation offered to the visitor. This is is the Garden of Eden, the golden apples tempting
the epitome : Life born of Death; the Forces of the man and the woman near a winding stream in
Nature ; the principles of Organic Chemistry the shade of trees. In the colouring of the ground,
creating plants, animals, and men, under the influ- in the wonderful blue tints in the scales of the
ence of the sun; Butterflies, the companions of serpent, the attention is centred; but it is only
Decomposition and the bearers of germs. We gradually, by the help of the explanatory notes,
turn to the painting to find the translation in the that the composition unifies itself, and that we see
dead body of a woman in the centre of the canvas, the embodiment of the conception. We cannot
fertilising the world; butterflies hovering about in but admire the powerful and brilliant technique in
a bright scheme of colour. Beneath the body coils this colossal work, yet one turns from it with the
the serpent, the emblem of mystery ; on the left is impression that the ideas, so clearly defined in the
printed matter, are discon-
nected in the work itself.
In the Mairie of the
First Arrondissement, in
the Salle des Manages,
the decorations are: Le
Matin, Le Midi, Le Soir de
la Vie. The Morning of
Life is represented by a
youth and a maiden
surrounded by the flowers
of spring. The sky is
clear. Not even the
,, smallest cloud darkens
the horizon. Birds of won-
drous shades of mauve
, ' ;. deepening into the purple
.... -^y^ ^^Mp v of the iris, hover near
k the centre figures and give
ff|| colour to the scene. The
Mid-day of Life is shown
^gfff?3)^Bp4YVflK&' , in the man and woman
,m,^«s>__. ^^■Kntsn^^BI^HnHHi jn the height of their
: dans le vent " by albert paul besnard physical power ; the man
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"l'H0MME moderne a l'ecole DE pharmacie " by albert paul besnard
decoration in the Sorbonne, La Vie renaissant de la a chasm of fire vomiting a pillar of smoke, curling
Mort. The idea is most poetically expressed in the upwards in a dense picturesque mass ; on the right
printed explanation offered to the visitor. This is is the Garden of Eden, the golden apples tempting
the epitome : Life born of Death; the Forces of the man and the woman near a winding stream in
Nature ; the principles of Organic Chemistry the shade of trees. In the colouring of the ground,
creating plants, animals, and men, under the influ- in the wonderful blue tints in the scales of the
ence of the sun; Butterflies, the companions of serpent, the attention is centred; but it is only
Decomposition and the bearers of germs. We gradually, by the help of the explanatory notes,
turn to the painting to find the translation in the that the composition unifies itself, and that we see
dead body of a woman in the centre of the canvas, the embodiment of the conception. We cannot
fertilising the world; butterflies hovering about in but admire the powerful and brilliant technique in
a bright scheme of colour. Beneath the body coils this colossal work, yet one turns from it with the
the serpent, the emblem of mystery ; on the left is impression that the ideas, so clearly defined in the
printed matter, are discon-
nected in the work itself.
In the Mairie of the
First Arrondissement, in
the Salle des Manages,
the decorations are: Le
Matin, Le Midi, Le Soir de
la Vie. The Morning of
Life is represented by a
youth and a maiden
surrounded by the flowers
of spring. The sky is
clear. Not even the
,, smallest cloud darkens
the horizon. Birds of won-
drous shades of mauve
, ' ;. deepening into the purple
.... -^y^ ^^Mp v of the iris, hover near
k the centre figures and give
ff|| colour to the scene. The
Mid-day of Life is shown
^gfff?3)^Bp4YVflK&' , in the man and woman
,m,^«s>__. ^^■Kntsn^^BI^HnHHi jn the height of their
: dans le vent " by albert paul besnard physical power ; the man
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