Picture Posters; a Short History of the Illustrated Placard, With Many Reproductions of the Most Artistic Examples in All Countries
Picture Posters; a Short History of the Illustrated Placard, With Many Reproductions of the Most Artistic Examples in All Countries
Charles Hiatt
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One might as well attempt to ignore a fall of golden rain, as to avoid stopping to look at them ; they are so many riots of colour, triumphant in their certainty of fascinating and bewildering the passer- by. As may be imagined, Chdret's skill has fullest scope when dealing with the lightest and gayest subjed;s : a cascade de clowns — to borrow a phrase of Huysman — an en- trance of ballet girls ; a joyous troupe of children, contented because toy-laden; these, and the like, are subjed;s most c...ongenial to him. His style is essentially the outcome of the day. It possesses no decorative fore- runners ; it is not a thing derived ; its parents are the gaieties of modern Paris. It is in- tensely ad;ual, and in its adluality lies, it Digiti zed by Google DESIGN BY CHI^KET. Digitized by VjOOQIC T"T. ^'^'^v :')'': ,-^VirUi^a Digiti zed by Google CH^RET. 33 seems to me, its greatest claim to considera- tion. It is infused with a somewhat hedtic gaiety which holds a not unimportant place in the lives of us suffering from this " sick disease of modern life." Of the sick disease itself, Chdret gives no hint.
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