Images de l’oubli de soi: les scènes de genre de Greuze et de Chardin

Genre painting, also called genre scene or “petit genre”, represents aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) and JeanSiméon Chardin (1699–1779) are probably the most famous painters specialized in this genre in the eightee...

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Main Author: Erzsébet Prohászka
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická Fakulta 2020-10-01
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Online Access:https://svetliteratury.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/10/Erzsebet_Prohaszka_38-50.pdf
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description Genre painting, also called genre scene or “petit genre”, represents aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) and JeanSiméon Chardin (1699–1779) are probably the most famous painters specialized in this genre in the eighteenth century in France. It is striking that often the characters in their canvases are deeply absorbed in ordinary activities, forgetting the surrounding world. The purpose of our paper is to illustrate the representations of self-effacement in French painting of the eighteenth century, based on the analysis of some paintings by Greuze and Chardin and also on theoretical and critical texts of their time. We draw as well a parallel between the work of Michael Fried, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot, and the theory of the flow of the psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, to show their common points considering always their appearances in the genre paintings.
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spelling doaj.art-4792ebb14bc6438496fed38e0d8435eb2022-12-22T03:08:35ZcesUniverzita Karlova, Filozofická FakultaSvět Literatury0862-84402336-67292020-10-0130385010.14712/23366729.2020.3.3Images de l’oubli de soi: les scènes de genre de Greuze et de ChardinErzsébet Prohászka 0Université de SzegedGenre painting, also called genre scene or “petit genre”, represents aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) and JeanSiméon Chardin (1699–1779) are probably the most famous painters specialized in this genre in the eighteenth century in France. It is striking that often the characters in their canvases are deeply absorbed in ordinary activities, forgetting the surrounding world. The purpose of our paper is to illustrate the representations of self-effacement in French painting of the eighteenth century, based on the analysis of some paintings by Greuze and Chardin and also on theoretical and critical texts of their time. We draw as well a parallel between the work of Michael Fried, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot, and the theory of the flow of the psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, to show their common points considering always their appearances in the genre paintings.https://svetliteratury.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/10/Erzsebet_Prohaszka_38-50.pdfjean-siméon chardinjean-baptiste greuzegenre paintingself-effacementmichael friedmihály csíkszentmihályistate of flow
spellingShingle Erzsébet Prohászka
Images de l’oubli de soi: les scènes de genre de Greuze et de Chardin
Svět Literatury
jean-siméon chardin
jean-baptiste greuze
genre painting
self-effacement
michael fried
mihály csíkszentmihályi
state of flow
title Images de l’oubli de soi: les scènes de genre de Greuze et de Chardin
title_full Images de l’oubli de soi: les scènes de genre de Greuze et de Chardin
title_fullStr Images de l’oubli de soi: les scènes de genre de Greuze et de Chardin
title_full_unstemmed Images de l’oubli de soi: les scènes de genre de Greuze et de Chardin
title_short Images de l’oubli de soi: les scènes de genre de Greuze et de Chardin
title_sort images de l oubli de soi les scenes de genre de greuze et de chardin
topic jean-siméon chardin
jean-baptiste greuze
genre painting
self-effacement
michael fried
mihály csíkszentmihályi
state of flow
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