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FELICIEN
ROPS
(1833-1898)
Felicien Joseph Victor Rops is one of that body of nineteenth century artists who have been consigned to semi-obscurity because their work displayed a degree of candid, unbridled and unapologetic eroticism which society has hitherto found unacceptable A draughtsman of great accomplishment, Rops was an engraver, a lithographer and a painter. Rops also had an enormous natural appetite for life and sexual adventure. A Belgian by birth, he was to become the toast of Paris, an artist revered for his ability to see and depict the world of salons and cafes with brilliant directness and honesty. A Catholic by birth, Rops was constantly torn by the struggle between his spiritual inheritance and his feverish imagination. Thus his work moves from simple but devastating satire to a demoniacal equation of sexuality with hypocrisy. (From Pornocrates - An Introduction to the Life and Work of Felicien Rops by Charles Brison, 1969)
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technique coupled with artistic vision defines our user-friendly presentation
of figurative fine art paintings, sculptures and original graphics.
Contemporary symbolism at its apex in the traditions of Bosch, the Italian
Renaissance, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, the Viennese and German Secession
and the symbolist movements with an edge of surrealism. |