EUGENE GIRARDET

SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture

-Post 179 -by Gautam Shah

Eugene Girardet (1853-1907) was a Paris-born artist. His extended family, of several generations, were all engaged in painting, printmaking, engraving and lithography.

He began his career, in 1874, by making a trip to Spain and Morocco, and that offered a fresh visual introduction to a new culture. He was yet strongly anchored to the realism of depicting ordinary people going about their daily life. The colour palette was largely of ‘monochromatic shades of brown, white and dusty gold’.

Girardet also visited North Africa, here, he met Etienne Dinet (in 1877), a key figure in the history of French Orientalism. His academically nurtured realism and style of narrative content of painting, now evolved further, with ethnic interests. In later part of his life, the realism, was affected by the Impressionist style.

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