Jaguar Devouring a Hare
At the Paris Salon of 1850, "Jaguar Devouring a Hare" was exhibited together with "Lapith Combating a Centaur" -one work representing the artist's most romantic side and the other, his most classical. Both sculptures were acclaimed masterpieces. The critic Théophile Gautier observed of this sculpture:
"The mere reproduction of nature does not constitute art; [Barye] aggrandizes his animal subjects, simplifying them, idealizing and stylizing them in a manner that is bold, energetic, and rugged, that makes him the Michael Angelo of the menagerie.
A variation on this sculpture by the French modernist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was recently acquired by the Baltimore Museum of Art."Relevantní obrázky
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Antoine-Louis BaryeAntoine-Louis Barye byl francouzský sochař patřící k romantikům, který se nejvíce proslavil svou prací jako tvůrce soch zvířat. Jeho synem a studentem byl známý sochař Alfred Barye. .. pokračovat ve čtení