Maurice Denis cytaty

Maurice Denis – francuski malarz, rysownik, grafik, projektant , teoretyk sztuki. Był jednym z założycieli grupy nabistów i jednym z głównych reprezentantów symbolizmu w malarstwie. Przedstawiciel postimpresjonizmu. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Listopad 1870 – 13. Listopad 1943
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Maurice Denis słynne cytaty

„Obraz, zanim się stał jakąkolwiek anegdotą, jest przede wszystkim powierzchnią płaską, pokrytą kolorami w pewnym określonym porządku.”

Źródło: Maria Rzepińska, Siedem wieków malarstwa europejskiego, wyd. II, popr., Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wrocław 1986, s. 7.

„Malarstwo, te plamy barwne, zgrupowane według określonego kryterium.”

Źródło: Jerzy Płażewski, Język filmu, Książka i Wiedza, Warszawa 2008, s. 39.

„Rolą artysty nie jest niewolnicza imitacja natury, lecz nadawanie formy wizualnej własnym marzeniom.”

Źródło: Maria Rzepińska, Siedem wieków malarstwa europejskiego, op. cit., s. 418.

Maurice Denis: Cytaty po angielsku

“The sublime is to approach the subject or wall with an attitude that is grand, noble, and in no way petty..”

Quote, 1922; from Bouillon 2006, p. 89; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [35]
1921 and later

“Think of late paintings where Christ is the central figure... Remember the large mosaics of Rome. Reconcile the employment of large-scale decorative means and the direct emotions of nature.”

Quote, March 1895, from Denis' Journal; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [23]
1890 - 1920

“Don't lose sight of the essential objectives of painting, which are expression, emotion, delectation; to understand the means, to paint decoratively, to exalt form and color.”

Quote from Denis' Journal, 1930; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [43]
1921 and later

“Decorative and edifying. That is what I want art to be before anything else.”

as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [41]
Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne..., 1922

“.. the classical aesthetic offers us at the same time a method of thinking and a method of wanting to be, a moral and at the same time a psychology... The classical tradition as a whole, by the logic of the effort and the greatness of results, is in some way parallel with the religious tradition of humanity.”

Quote from Denis's essay 'Les Arts a Rome', 1898; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [22]
Denis made Jan. 1895 his first visit to Rome, where the works of Raphael and Michaelangelo in the Vatican made a strong impression upon him.
1890 - 1920

“What amazement, followed by what a revelation! In place of windows opening on nature, like the impressionists, these were surfaces which were solidly decorative, powerfully colorful, bordered with brutal strokes, partitioned.”

Quote of Denis, 1909: from Bouillon 2006, pp. 17-18; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [9]
In 1889, Denis was captivated by an exposition of works of Paul Gauguin and his friends at the Cafe Volponi, on the edge of the Paris Universal Exposition, that year
1890 - 1920

“I believe that art should sanctify nature.”

Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne..., 1922

“The profoundness of our emotions comes from the sufficiency of these lines and these colors to explain themselves.... everything is contained in the beauty of the work.”

Quote 1890, from Denis' essay published in the review 'Art et Critique'; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [13]
In August 1890, Denis consolidated his new ideas and presented them in a famous essay published in the review 'Art et Critique'. In his essay, he termed the new movement 'neo-traditionaism', in opposition to the 'progressism' of the Neo-impressionists, led by Seurat
1890 - 1920

“Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity”

as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [42]
Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne..., 1922

“Art is no longer a visual sensation that we gather, like a photograph, as it were, of nature. No, it is a creation of our spirit, for which nature is only the occasion.”

Quote of Denis, 1909: from Bouillon 2006, pp. 17-18; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [9]
1890 - 1920

“Art is the sanctification of the nature, of that nature found in everyone who is content to live.”

2 Quotes from Denis' 1906 essay 'The Sun'; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [29]
1890 - 1920