![]() ![]() Puvis' prominence is illuminated in a totally different way by Jennifer Shaw's book, Dream States. The exhaustive, six pound, 567 page catalogue began with a tree tracing Puvis' influence across boundaries of nation and style, insisting that he is the father of modernism, of much more formal innovation than the pale palette of Maurice Denis. The international extravaganza for 2002 at Venice's Palazzo Grassi exhibition space was De Puvis de Chavannes a Matisse et Picasso: Vers l'art modern. Merely a secondary Symbolist? More distance in time and more study of that elusive movement called Symbolism has brought renewed prominence to Puvis. This grand reputation appeared to be eclipsed by the modernist developments of the first half of the twentieth century when he was noted mostly as a transition to artists such as Maurice Denis. He was admired by both conservative and avant-garde critics and by an equally broad range of artists. ISBN 2-3Īt the time of his death in 1898, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was the most broadly accepted of artists in France. Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France. ![]()
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