Aime-Jules Dalou
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Mythological Narratives, Genre Subjects Art Work
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Aime-Jules Dalou |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Paris, France |
| Nationality: |
French |
| Birth: |
1838 |
| Death: |
1901 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
Mythological Narratives, Genre Subjects |
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Bronze, stone, marble |
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Sculpture
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Biography
| French sculpture, Dalou was born in Paris into a working-class family. He was educated in drawing and later attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he learned sculpture. He was critical of his training but had success when he displayed his work at the Salon from 1861 on and was employed to complete decorative sculptures for luxurious houses. Dalou was always a political radical and he was later appointed a keeper of the Louvre Museum by the revolutionary Commune in 1871. When the Commune fell he fled to London and stayed there until an amnesty was passed which allowed him to return to France in 1879. In London Dalou was very successful and was commissioned to make portraits and monuments which were displayed at the Royal Academy. Many of his later works reflect his republicanism these include a Triumph of the Republic (1879-99 Paris, Place de la Nation) and the Tomb of Blanqui (1885; Paris, Cemetery of Pere Lachaise) and a number of studies of peasants and workers, many of them part of a project, Monument to the Workers which he never completed. Included in these were portrait busts and figures of women reading or sewing, these works illustrated middle-class families with evident sympathy, as well as figurative and mythological groups. He received official commissions in which he demonstrated his conventions of conception and implementation. In many of the sculptures he made out of his own interest he idealized and many times simplified realistic subjects to give them artistic presence, similar to Millet in painting. Maillol and Brancusi key figures of modern sculpture were influenced by him. |
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