Paris, Art for Art's Sake

Author: Feng Jicai
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: Why did the Dutchman Van Gogh, the Russian Chagall, the Spanish Picasso and Miró, the Italian Modigliani, and others from China like Zhao Wuji all achieve enlightenment and become painting masters who illuminate humanity in France? Is it because of France's romance? Freedom? For this, Feng Jicai, who has traveled to France several times for research, says: No! From France's humanistic level, he found this fundamental yet wonderfully beautiful answer: the supremacy of French spirit! The text and image format of this book are quite distinctive. It is both the writer writing about the painter and the painter writing about the writer, a blend of literature and art—eleven typical Feng Jicai-style works. Only painters possess this artistic sense, and the exquisite prose-like text conveys a unique charm. The book includes three main parts: "Beauty is the romance of the spirit," "History is a soul," and "Artists of Paris." With his abundant discovery-based materials, fresh perspectives, unique artistic sense, and prose-like exquisite text, the author presents his answer to us as a painting. This is a unique book—it is both the writer writing about the painter and the painter writing about the painter. It is a typical Feng Jicai-style work.