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WILLETTE, LEON ADOLPHE (1857– )
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See also:WILLETTE, See also:LEON ADOLPHE (1857– ) , See also:French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, was See also:born in Chalonssur-See also:Marne. He studied for four years at the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux-Arts under See also:Cabanel—a training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of See also:France. Whether See also:comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or See also:political See also:satire, his See also:work is See also:instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set See also:Pierrot upon a lofty See also:pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established !Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially See also:good-hearted, in the affections of the nation. Willette is at once the See also:modern See also:Watteau of the See also:pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional See also:section of the public. Always a poet, and usually See also:gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more " charming" See also:side of love, often pure and sometimes unnecessarily materialistic, Willette frequently reveals himself hitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same See also:time a generous partizan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the See also:people—whether they be ground down under the See also:heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims of unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is See also:charm even in his thrilling See also:apotheosis of the See also:guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of See also:Death itself. The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated See also:press under the pseudonyms " Cemoi," " Pierrot," " Louison," " Bebe," and " Nox," but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's See also:Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, and has published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other See also:works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of See also:Busch. He decorated several " brasseries artistiques " with See also:wall-paintings, stained See also:glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La See also:Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative See also:ceiling for La Cigale See also:music See also: His " Valmy" is in the Luxembourg, See also:Paris. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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