Word: petitjean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PAINTINGS-Hirschl & Adler, 21 East 67th. More than 60 works by 19 exponents of the neo-impressionist technique that built up form through the juxtaposition of tiny stippled dots of brightly contrasting colors. Among the masters of the school: Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Lucie Cousturier, Henri-Edmond Cross, Hippolyte Petitjean, Camille and Lucien Pissarro. Through...
...only are the acknowledged masters of modern painting represented; their contemporaries, including the dominant painters of the academic tradition, are presented abundantly. Gerome, Petitjean, and Bouguereau hang with Picasso, Matisse, and the Impressionists. And while the exhibition cogently states the dominant stylistic trends of modern French art, its special value lies in its demonstration of what happened to the academic tradition when it was confronted with the innovations of the Impressionists and their followers...
Hyppolyte Petitjean's attempt to come to terms with academic subject matter using a late Impressionist but revealing "En arcadie" Archaic figures, who might have come from Poussin, disport themselves in structurally significant positions, but the light that diffuses over them breaks up into the pointillism of Seurat. Petitjean's attempt produces something of a curiosity - it is an if the lightheaded figures form Poussin's "Baccahanale" (in Mr. Chrysler's collection) had been suddenly calmed by a curious atmosphere they did not understand, the atmosphere of "La Grande Jatte...