Lamentations of Orpheus (1896), oil on canvas, 73 x 116 cm Paris, Musée d'Orsay. Poetic inspiration, reverence pure forms, theoretical concerns and social concerns come together at this complex work and idéaliste3.
It illustrates the esoteric works, carries the symbols of the Rosicrucians and the frontispieces of Josephin Peladan works. Deherme friend of George (founder of the popular universities), it creates cheap lithographs, organizes visits to the Louvre for workers and advocates for the Hall of the People. He has written scholarly material on the "perspective of your division" and "the symbolism of line and color". It will leave a picture of Josephin Peladan, said Sar Peladan in "Nabi of ideality." Unscrupulous art teacher at the City of Paris from 1881 to 1915, he will receive some orders and official, despite his signs to the City of Courbevoie, ambition decorator will not be favored.
In 1892, Seon helped found the Rosicrucians which will be a faithful. Around 1890, however, his works reflect the influence of Seurat which he adapted the technique with the help of the critic and theorist Alhponse Germain to reach a neo-impressionist who can convey his idealistic aspirations.Īlphonse Germain2 in Art Criticism and defines it as "symbolist-idéiste" Emile Verhaeren is the "land of light" at their show at Le Barc de Boutteville in 1892. He exhibited from 1879 in the various rooms and became a leading figure of the symbolism. In 1877 he went to Paris and took classes at Henri Lehmann, he met Seurat1, Alphonse Osbert, Edmond Aman-Jean, but Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, which will be the student and assistant for ten years and whose influence will be decisive. Student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lyon, he also decorative arts and ornamental design for the textile industry in Lyon.
He was closely associated with Joséphin Péladan and his Salon de la Rose-Croix, and designed the frontispiece for Péladan's 1891 novel l'Androgyne.īorn into a merchant family, Alexandre Seon has a happy childhood and a rural culture, its legends, communicates the taste of the marvelous. Séon studied at the Beaux-Arts of Lyon and Paris, becoming a student of Puvis de Chavannes in 1891, with whom he later collaborated. Alexandre Séon (1855, Chazelles-sur-Lyon, Loire - 1917) was a French Symbolist artist, illustrator and decorator.
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