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The artist Liotard, Jean Etienne ( Jean-Etienne Liotard)

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ACADEMIC PAINTING, PASTEL

the artist"s Father — Antoine Liotard was born in a family of French Protestants, was a jeweler, but after 1685 for religious reasons fled from the small French town of Montélimar in Switzerland. In Geneva and the brothers were born-близнецы Jean-Этьен and Жан-Мишель.

Jean-Этьен Liotard was the thirteenth child in the family of a French merchant. Jean-Этьен and Jean-Мишель was artistically gifted children and from an early age showed interest in drawing and painting.

In his youth Jean-Этьен studied with the miniature painter Daniel Gardel, then in 1725 Liotard, again with his brother, went to Paris. Here they continued their education in the Studio of the engraver and miniaturist Jean-Баттиста Weight.

But in the years of wandering in Italy, the artist, and the pastel, which will be his favorite technique and glorify the name of Liotard in the whole of Europe.
Liotard painted" Давид in the temple", which was awarded a prize by the Paris Academy of arts. Critics have suggested that the artist will be doing a historical genre, but academics and colleagues are convinced that his calling — portrait genre.

Portraits Lyotard are very diverse. In some tangible connection with the Rococo style, with its inherent love of elegant and sophisticated costumes, to the abundance of soft, fluid fabrics, elegance of graceful postures and movements. These are portraits of" Мадам Epinay"," Читающая girl"," Мадам Boer"," Шоколадница". In other, more numerous portraits dominated by the desire for objective and accurate characterization.

This can be seen in the portraits of Maria Theresa, Marshal Maurice of Saxony, wife of the artist, Mrs. Koniar ("Дама in lace"). The people in these portraits are given, as a rule, closeup and close to the viewer, nothing distracts them attention from the main — from the face. The artist is clearly impressed by such traits as energy, vitality, confidence.

Лиотар Жан Этьен ( Jean-Etienne Liotard) - швейцарский художник

Liotard, Jean Etienne ( Jean-Etienne Liotard) — Swiss artist

Last years the artist spent in confignon near Geneva. He writes still lifes, which subsequently will be competing collectors and museums. Die Liotard in 1789, not waiting for the French revolution destroyed the old order and brought to it on change new value, including — in the art. Brother-близнец artist Jean-Мишель, ruined by the revolution, will die in 1796 in poverty.

Liotard for more than 60 years of creative life, he created an enormous number of portraits. However, according to critics, he always tried to present an objective and accurate description of the image. The artist did not hide the flaws of their heroes, contrary to the aesthetics of the Rococo style, aimed at the embellishment and even flattery. This" правдолюбие" Lyotard distinguishes it from other French portraitists of the eighteenth century, for example, Watteau and Boucher. Some critics even scolded the artist for the lack of" элегантного style", at the same time calling his pastel portraits" изящными and нежными".

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