Fantin Latour , Master of Flower Painting

Henri Fantin Latour emerges as one of the finest artists to render a Flower, his consummate skill and technical prowess was honed over many years of study of the Masters at the Louvre in Paris. He was a student of a master teacher where Memory painting and drawing were the principal skills to develop, Edgar Degas, Rodin, and L'Hermitte would also benefit from this unusual practice. Fantin was associated with the impressionists as friends but did not hold their views as useful for his purposes however they were friends and his Portraits of Manet confirm that friendship. Fantin was taken into the collector base of English society and produced over 800 flower paintings. One of the true greats of picture-making.
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[@Pola_B_Alex_Art]

I so much love his floral still life paintings! Thank you for posting. ❤❤❤

[@ginadavis174]

Thank you for this marvellous video.

[@pietervoogt]

Great, thank you.

[@ArtwholeVideo]

As a practicing artist all I can say is I love these presentations. Thank you for making them, I love your work.

[@gammelllackinstitute]

Thank you very much!

[@MaximillianHemmings]

Great presentation! Thank you.

[@pchabanowich]

I could easily say this man's aesthetic and works are more dear to me than nearly all the others combined. It makes no difference how much I paint flowers and still-life, he is simply God, and I am his prodigal creation. 💐💐💐💐💐

[@ElisseBennet]

Roses. Ah, roses! Especially to see them in the dreary days of late winter. Makes my heart go pitter patter.

[@charlesyoung1464]

Congratulations on this audio and visual pleasure which both elevate and enrichen the human spirit😇📈🚀.

[@bethb586]

Thank you for a wonderful & thoroughly enjoyable video!! Mid to late 19th c. is my favorite period for art/painting so this is heaven for me.

[@chompers11]

❤

[@ElisseBennet]

Love Love Love your videos, I am a fan. Thank you for what you do!

[@gammelllackinstitute]

You are so welcome

[@michaelvr8973]

Delightful, as usual ! Thx

[@sylvainst-pierre8725]

Thank you very much. I knew the name '' Fantin La Tour '' but never really duged into any information about him. Great paintings to do master copies. Thanks again.

[@grahamgillard3722]

What is it about still life that is so captivating? Why do the paintings look better than the real thing?

[@Milan_Smidt]

Because when done well, they're like a poem describing the real thing.

[@psterud]

There are many angles on this idea. I think the main one is that a human can use pigment and brushes and canvas to capture a moment in time, even one that is relatively mundane, that is somehow meaningful to others in the present and, especially, the future. A lot of that meaning comes from the skill involved. If it's not skillfully done, it's probably not going to be interesting. Most normal humans do not recognize the beauty of the mundane, but artists do. They've spent years or decades developing their ability to see what others don't, but also their ability to apply that sight to a 2D surface with various tools like paint and pencils and inks. For normal humans this is magic. And it is magic. Artists are illusionists. They have to take something from the 3D world and translate it onto a 2D surface in a way that tricks the eye. That's illusion. And the best artists do this really well, not only with skill but with a message.

[@starlucanyaart]

It may be like a photographer or poet. it capture our eyes on details we didn't really pay attention in reality I'm not sure its illusion as @psterud say, because for me it show the intrisic and inner beauty of things. The soul of things. It's that, to be an artist.

[@sylhayes8152]

So inspiring, and a lovely calm voice

[@issol7643]

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[@psterud]

Your videos so far are very impressive, as well as informative and inspiring, not to mention exacting and deliberate. Please keep doing these. A special request would be Gustave Moreau, George Inness, or Roberto Matta.

[@gammelllackinstitute]

George Inness is in the American playlist. Moreau, good one

[@psterud]

@@gammelllackinstitute Awesome. Thank you. I'm off to check out your Inness video. Don't forget about Matta. He's a titan.

[@JCarrera27]

👏🖤

[@nancychen8048]

Who was it that introduced HFL to Edwin Edwards? Whistler, or Matthew White Ridley? It seems to say both at different points in the video

[@gammelllackinstitute]

True, it appears that Whistler and the others seem to have had a hand in introducing Fantin to the Patron. It does happen that introductions may come from a few sources-as any artist knows two or three intros to a potential client always helps..so we just decided to lay it out as recorded (written). Thanks. Good observation

[@johngraham4053]

Very informative and well presented, thank you