Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tiepolo, who made his reputation in the middle of the seventeenth century, is a representative of cleverness in technical decoration and as such is really the first artist to introduce what has come to be known as the modern style...
...decorations are delicately fresh and have a certain sparkling charm of which early artists were utterly ignorant. His handling is wonderful, robust and healthful, while the clearness and sharpness in his outlines give a competent appearance to his work which is essentially modern...
There are three characteristics of modern decoration which deserve especial attention; the quality of vigor, homogeneousness of decoration, and violent foreshortening. Vigor, which has hardly received its fair share of attention, is a feature of decoration which the ancient artists greatly underrated and by exaggerating the importance of each muscle and member of the human frame greatly diminished the effectiveness of their ensemble. The modern artist has learned that simplicity is the most forcible mode of expressing vigor...
...lovely." This fact which Burke stated a hundred years ago was fully appreciated by Athens, Venice and Florence. All these countries devoted wealth and intellect to the cause of art, even when waging expensive wars at the same time. The only country which has systematically followed this devotion in modern times is France, where the artists in organized classes begin with the study of what is famous and beautiful at home and then pursue their studies further in other countries. This gives every Frenchman a chance to learn his country's history and at the same time to connect each...
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