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#0038
[ean Charles Casin
" MAKEE BASSE—EQUIHEN "
In 1893 there was held in New York an exhibition
of works by Cazin, under the patronage of the
American Art Association. The catalogue of this
exhibition, which is very scarce and difficult to
find in any library, contains some valuable notes
by Theodore Child upon the work of Cazin, notes
which are all the more precious since they were
written—it is from Madame Cazin that I received
this information—under the supervision of the
artist himself.
"In his pictures," writes the author, "we find
neither beautiful forms, nor grand style, nor colour
in the old sense of those terms, as they might be
applied to the work of Raphael or Veronese. On
the other hand, we are struck by the evidence
of researches that are at once intellectual and
technical, and thanks to which the eye and the
hand of the artist have grown in sensitiveness,
while, at the same time, his soul has become
acutely conscious of the joy, the gaiety, the
dramatic expressiveness, the infinite poetry of light.
Tt is by the exact and sympathetically emotional
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BY J. C. CAZIN
rendering oj effects oj light that Cazin develops and
enforces his theme. Like Corot, Cazin is always
full of soul; in unheroic and even familiar subjects
he gives us the impression of a thoughtful, serious,
and yet hopeful nature; he is always simple,
always eloquent, and always sincere; in his pictures
there is no imposing majesty of composition, no
blatant anecdote or importunate morality; he
paints men that he has seen, houses that exist,
trees that really grow, skies that he has not
invented, and reeds whose sad music he has
overheard. Most of Cazin's pictures are repre-
sentations of the simplest sites, often absolutely
poor in line."
Cazin was not one of those who lavish their
talents before the public. He was a regular
exhibitor at the Salons of the Societe Nationale
and three years ago this society organised an
exhibition of a number of his pictures. Cazin's
work is to be seen in the Musee du Luxembourg
and in the great majority of the European and
American art galleries. Henri Frantz.
" MAKEE BASSE—EQUIHEN "
In 1893 there was held in New York an exhibition
of works by Cazin, under the patronage of the
American Art Association. The catalogue of this
exhibition, which is very scarce and difficult to
find in any library, contains some valuable notes
by Theodore Child upon the work of Cazin, notes
which are all the more precious since they were
written—it is from Madame Cazin that I received
this information—under the supervision of the
artist himself.
"In his pictures," writes the author, "we find
neither beautiful forms, nor grand style, nor colour
in the old sense of those terms, as they might be
applied to the work of Raphael or Veronese. On
the other hand, we are struck by the evidence
of researches that are at once intellectual and
technical, and thanks to which the eye and the
hand of the artist have grown in sensitiveness,
while, at the same time, his soul has become
acutely conscious of the joy, the gaiety, the
dramatic expressiveness, the infinite poetry of light.
Tt is by the exact and sympathetically emotional
16
BY J. C. CAZIN
rendering oj effects oj light that Cazin develops and
enforces his theme. Like Corot, Cazin is always
full of soul; in unheroic and even familiar subjects
he gives us the impression of a thoughtful, serious,
and yet hopeful nature; he is always simple,
always eloquent, and always sincere; in his pictures
there is no imposing majesty of composition, no
blatant anecdote or importunate morality; he
paints men that he has seen, houses that exist,
trees that really grow, skies that he has not
invented, and reeds whose sad music he has
overheard. Most of Cazin's pictures are repre-
sentations of the simplest sites, often absolutely
poor in line."
Cazin was not one of those who lavish their
talents before the public. He was a regular
exhibitor at the Salons of the Societe Nationale
and three years ago this society organised an
exhibition of a number of his pictures. Cazin's
work is to be seen in the Musee du Luxembourg
and in the great majority of the European and
American art galleries. Henri Frantz.