photo by Magdalyn near Saint Germain des PrésOpinions on modern art are not in short supply, they never have been. They probably never will be. One could question, however, if radical new theories on art and art making will come to the fore. A decade before Charles Baudelaire's pivotal essay, The Painter of Modern Life, emerged, solidifying the author as the champion of modernity, another Parisian (probably many others) had already walked the new boulevards with eyes open.
"In art, and modern art (I say modern art because it seems to me that it undergoes a transformation in each epoch), nature around us is the only domain of the artist, that his epoch, the beautiful things happening there, the diverse characters, the passions, the very beautiful nature around us, the smallest objects which strike our eyes, have great interest.
We are, it seems to me, in a great epoch, we enter onto a path which is truth, nature."
We are, it seems to me, in a great epoch, we enter onto a path which is truth, nature."
- Henri Fantin-Latour, 15 novembre 1855
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