DOI Heft:
No. 223 (October 1911)
DOI Artikel:Frantz, Henri: A great french landscape painter: Jean Charles Cazin
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0034
fean Charles Cazin
"MARAICHERIE—VINCENNF.S (iSgo) . BY J. ('. CAZIN
of the great masterpieces of Italian art may not reproductions ot some ot the lamented master's
have had some part in the spiritual tendencies most complete and finished paintings. It only
of his earliest pictures. But Cazin's real artistic remains for me to say something about the
fatherland is the North of France, and more particu- essential qualities of Cazin's art and the particular
larly the coast of the Pas-de-Calais—Boulogne, attributes by reason of which it arouses our interest
Wimereux, Equihen, Montreuil, Abbeville. It and captivates our affection.
was from the landscapes of this region, so simple It is as though his extreme sensibility of vision
in line and in form, that he derived the inspira- and the absolute truth and accuracy displayed in
tion for some of his finest productions, which, the rendering of light and of form are allied in Cazin
on account of their solid handling, the beauty of with a kind of idealisation of the subject of his
their colour, are worthy to rank with the best works. If Cazin paints a farmyard, if he depicts
works of Ruysdael or of Hobbema. One should for us a corner of a village in the moonlight, we
make a special category for his twilight effects, for are at once convinced of the accuracy of the
in this respect Cazin is absolutely unique. There presentment and our reason is satisfied by the
is in his works of this character a depth of feeling fidelity with which the objects are drawn ; but at
which no one else has equalled. the same time there seems to emanate from the
I should like to be able to speak at much picture an intangible but intense poetic feeling
greater length about each one of Cazin's pictures, which transforms and idealises the subject. So
to try and describe the charm which is as it were in his art the painter appears to be at one and
enshrined in every single one of them ; but I the same time an apostle of Realism and also of
must forbear, and as a matter of fact the illustra- Idealism ; and this I believe to be something
tions comprise [very characteristic and faithful practically unique in the region of painting.
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"MARAICHERIE—VINCENNF.S (iSgo) . BY J. ('. CAZIN
of the great masterpieces of Italian art may not reproductions ot some ot the lamented master's
have had some part in the spiritual tendencies most complete and finished paintings. It only
of his earliest pictures. But Cazin's real artistic remains for me to say something about the
fatherland is the North of France, and more particu- essential qualities of Cazin's art and the particular
larly the coast of the Pas-de-Calais—Boulogne, attributes by reason of which it arouses our interest
Wimereux, Equihen, Montreuil, Abbeville. It and captivates our affection.
was from the landscapes of this region, so simple It is as though his extreme sensibility of vision
in line and in form, that he derived the inspira- and the absolute truth and accuracy displayed in
tion for some of his finest productions, which, the rendering of light and of form are allied in Cazin
on account of their solid handling, the beauty of with a kind of idealisation of the subject of his
their colour, are worthy to rank with the best works. If Cazin paints a farmyard, if he depicts
works of Ruysdael or of Hobbema. One should for us a corner of a village in the moonlight, we
make a special category for his twilight effects, for are at once convinced of the accuracy of the
in this respect Cazin is absolutely unique. There presentment and our reason is satisfied by the
is in his works of this character a depth of feeling fidelity with which the objects are drawn ; but at
which no one else has equalled. the same time there seems to emanate from the
I should like to be able to speak at much picture an intangible but intense poetic feeling
greater length about each one of Cazin's pictures, which transforms and idealises the subject. So
to try and describe the charm which is as it were in his art the painter appears to be at one and
enshrined in every single one of them ; but I the same time an apostle of Realism and also of
must forbear, and as a matter of fact the illustra- Idealism ; and this I believe to be something
tions comprise [very characteristic and faithful practically unique in the region of painting.
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