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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, peintreJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, painter
Ingres (1780 - 1867) occupied a special place in the history of the 19th century. Opposite Delacroix who, since Baudelaire, embodied the genius of romanticism and the triumph of color over drawing, he was the most thankless figure of a certain school of classicism devoted to imitating the ancients and to the virtually moral superiority of drawing ("Drawing is the probity of art", he wrote). Yet he was wary of received notions. In his lifetime, Ingres was far from having been the official artist to which detractors have often reduced him. Attacked and scorned for much of his career, he was aware of working as an innovator and even a revolutionary, by practicing, in reaction to the eclecticism of the painters in fashion, a rigorous return to Poussin, Raphael and the Italian primitives.
France - 2000 - 26 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour and B&W
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