Word: chardin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hundreds of thousands of years ago" was the time of the first man according to Father Teilhard do Chardin, consulting Paleontologist to the Chinese Geological Survey, speaking yesterday in the Biological Lecture Room on "the Peking...
Declaring that this fossil discovery was the half-way point between man and his ape ancestors, de Chardin, a Catholic priest, feels that this "Peking Man" is definitely not an ape fossil but a man's. He went on to illustrate his belief by showing the tools found with the remains which point to an intelligence above any animals...
From Owen's collection comes a canvas by Jean Chardin, who was the leader of a school of Parisian still-life painters in the middle of the XVIII-century. It represents a monkey painting a picture for a group of animal spectators. The other painting is of an earlier date, a portrait of a man by Nicholas do Largilliere. Largilliere was one of the greatest portrait painters of his time, and was appointed artist to the French and British Courts for many years...
...emancipated and freed spirit of the time of his grandson, Louis XV. The court painting of the beginning of the Seventeenth Century is represented in its chief examples by the two pictures by Wateau; several examples of the different styles of Fragonard, still life pictures by Chardin, and a group of contemporary portraits. Watteau's paintings "Minuet" and "Fete Champetre" show clearly the lightness and frivolity of the court art. The advent of the neo-classic expression in painting subsequent to the Revolution and prevalent during the Napoleonic era, is represented by the large portrait of a lady by David...
...cover the whole scope of French decorative art during the century, from Nicholas de Largilliere who retained most of the characteristics of the Louis XIV period, to David, who was the first of the neoclassic, painters. Among the groups which will be included are six excellent examples of Chardin, of which one is "Les Bulles de Savon", portraits by Grenze. Duplessis, Tuque, Proudhon, and Drouais, and two terra-cotta reliefs by Clodion. David's "Portrait of Mme, de Serdan" is one of the high lights of the exhibition, which also includes portrait-busts by Pajou and Houdon. Three...