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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) “Inspiration” (1898) Academicism
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) “An Eloquent Silence” (1890) Oil on panel Academicism
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Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) “Music Lesson” (1887) Oil on canvas Academicism Located in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the work. Decadent images and texts live in their aesthetic excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in their excess of words, not events. The surface of the paintings, the sound of the words, point to themselves as manufactured, as illusion. The decadents attempted to create imagery that announced itself as artifice.
Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France, 1998