[Redbook10:39][19910512:1718by](Neoclassicism
& Romanticism){Neoclassicism [continued
(13)]}[Extracts
from source text with ms notes][12th
May 1991]
19910512.1718
[continued]
‘This widening of
Neoclassical interests appears in the work of Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres (1780-1867), a pupil of David, who carried Neoclassicism
through to the second half of the 19th
century [ce]. Ingres revered the masters of the past and copied their
styles quite openly in his work. Eventually he created a unique
synthetic style with adaptations after Raphael & Poussin, early
Renaissance & Gothic art, Flaxman engravings, primitive vase
designs, Eastern art, & Roman wall paintings.
‘Like his contemporaries, Blake
& Flaxman, Ingres argued that ideal art had developed from a supremacy of line over
colour.* This accounts for much of the experimental nature of his work, when he copied subjects
from Homer into undulating, flatly coloured compositions, for example
“Venus Wounded by Diomedes” (1805; Öffentliche
Kunstsammlung, Kunstmuseum, Basel). These were condemned by French
critics for their primitive qualities.’
**
*{s~>R~?}
**–
ibid [Encyclopaedia
of Visual Art 4:]
738-739
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