Jean-Léon Gérôme Biography
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This biography outlines Gerome's rise to fame from young student to international artist and highly respected teacher.
Childhood
Jean-Leon Gerome was the spawn of a jeweler and a goldsmith. He was born in the town of Vesoul, a French Provincial in He proved to be a studious and intelligent child from an early age and studied history, Greek, and Latin during his high school years. He learned how to draw from a Neoclassical painter known as Claude Basil Cariage who had been taught by Jean-August-Dominique Ingres.
The young Jean-Leon Gerome demonstrated his art abilities, which led to his teacher instructing him to study from plaster models and casts. The study materials had been imported from Paris to Vesoul. Gerome would then go ahead to win his first art-based prize in the year His drawing was able to catch the attention of a friend of Paul Delaroche, the French historical painter.
Early Training
At the time he was turning 16 years, he had already managed to acquire his baccalaureate. It's at this time that he made the decision to head to Paris and ext
Jean-Leon Gerome
| French artist, representative of academicism Date of Birth: Country: France |
Content:
- Jean-Léon Gérôme: Master of Academicism
- Artistic Career: Neo-Grec and Historicism
- Orientalist Masterpieces
- Classic Historical Subjects
- Later Career and Legacy
- Artistic Characteristics
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Master of Academicism
Early Life and EducationJean-Léon Gérôme was born on May 11, , in Vesoul, France, to a goldsmith father. He received his early artistic education in his hometown before moving to Paris in to study under Paul Delaroche. In , he traveled with Delaroche to Italy, where he honed his skills in drawing and painting from life.
Artistic Career: Neo-Grec and Historicism
Upon returning to Paris, Gérôme continued his studies with Charles Gleyre and Delaroche. His debut work at the Salon, "Young Greeks Amusing Themselves with a Cock Fight," established his reputation. Subsequent paintings, such as "Anacreon Ordering Bacchus and Love to Dance" () and "The Greek Brothel" (), showcased his unique ability to render provocative subjects with a restrained and dignified treatment.
Gérôme became a leader of the "Neo-Grec" movement, which depicte
Summary of Jean-Léon Gérôme
Though the exotic, and sometimes scandalous, subject matter of his paintings attracted disapproval, there can be no doubt that Jean-Léon Gérôme was a technical maestro; a master of the spectacular who prided himself on a meticulous attention to picture detail. One of the most famous French painters of his generation, he can be credited with bringing about a transformation in historical painting. He was, however, subject to fierce criticism and controversy (mainly from Realists and Expressionists) who viewed his blending of academic painting with genre painting as falling somewhere between two outmoded schools. Nevertheless, Gérôme, whose pictorial worlds could certainly not be relied upon for historical accuracy, captivated a public that was won over by the skill and theatricality of his art. In his later career Gérôme reinvented himself as a sculptor, but he remains best known for his spectacular historical narratives that were made even more popular through the photographic reproduction of his images.
Accomplishments
- Emerging as a force during the dawning of French modernism, Gérôme gained a reputation as something of a conservative dissident.
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French Academic Historical Genre Painter
Stylistically influenced by the following painters - Paul Delaroche, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Pierre-Auguste Cot, and Eugene Fromentin
Education - studied under Paul Delaroche and later Charles Gleyre.
Cause of Death - Heart Attack
John C. Van Dyke, art historian and artists describes the painter and his style "Gérôme is a man of classic training and inclination, but his versatility hardly allows him to be classified anywhere. He was first a leader of the New-Greeks, painting delicate mythological subjects; then a historical painter, showing deaths of Cæsar and the like; then an Orientalist, giving scenes from Cairo and Constantinople; then a genre painter, depicting contemporary subjects in the many lands through which he has travelled. Whatever he has done shows semi-classic drawing, ethnological and archæological knowledge, Parisian technic, and exact detail. His travels have not changed his precise scientific point
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