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...Seurat was steeped in the work of color theorists like Michel-Eug?ne Chevreul, who held that each color gives off a halo of its complementary color and that adjoining dots of different hue would be blended by the eye. Adjacent spots of blue and yellow, for instance, would create a joint aureole of green. From that idea Seurat developed his pointillist technique. But the Chicago show, which was guest-curated by scholar Robert L. Herbert, takes pains to remind us that Seurat was never truly bound to it. In an age that worshipped science - even socialism had been made ?scientific...
...displayed in a set of pictures and captions from the first interview ever recorded (in 1886) for both eye and ear. The cameramen-interviewers are Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, who worked under the single professional name Nadar, and his son Paul. Their subject is Michel-Eugène Chevreul, an elderly scientist and expert on the theory of color mixing. Visible in some frames: a tubular machine that recorded Chevreul's words to be set alongside his facial expressions in the Paris weekly Journal Illustré. In one picture he is saying: "I must make...
...Chevreul's point is made splendidly and often in After Daguerre: Masterworks of French Photography, a show transplanted from the Petit Palais in Paris to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. There is still a tendency to think of photography mainly as a 20th century phenomenon, with only a handful of notable pioneers in the 19th-in France, Nadar himself; in England, Julia Margaret Cameron, master of brooding portraits and symbolic tableaux, Mathew Brady, engraving the Civil War on the mind of America. After Daguerre is a rich reminder that though photographers, still hobbled by glacially slow...
Fascinated by the color theories of the French chemist, Michel Eugène Chevreul, La Farge searched along the same lines that the impressionists were to follow. He wrote: "I wished to apply principles of light and color of which I had learned a little. I wished my studies of nature to indicate very carefully, in every part, the exact time of day and circumstance of light." It was the same route that Monet, slightly his junior in age, was to follow to perfection. In practice, La Farge is more similar to that French loner, Puvis de Chavannes, who also...
...library has recently received a large framed photograph of Michael Eugene Chevreul, the famous French physicist and chemist, who received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard at the 250th anniversary of the college. He died April 9, 1889, at the age of 102, being the oldest man who ever received an honorary degree from Harvard...