DE GARINIO. CII %RI r. .111 Ameri can educator, born in the st te canal Normal, Ill., and at llalIr, (Imanany. Ti' was professor of psyched al the Fniversity of Illinois from to lis4(1. I reside' I of front 1S91 to IS'Ig and beerime prof, ssor of seience viol the art of Cornell CoiN vr.ity in 1q9q. lie was elected president of the Nat iorell 11. Tinto •seieie tv in 1s92. an I is the leader of the lie ?d'art inn school in the United States. \ mong l is pnblisl od m,orks are: 11cr tori a d /hrha•fia .• : intiquam ro .tong 1: and a translation of T.imlner's Ilettiani of riniarie((/ fcqthi hem ac an Ind sirtirr Sri, nr, (1Y591.
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l'ren, h paint. r. horn in Paris. dilly 19, 1C34. 1 re wag a pupil of 1.amoth(b and of the Eeole deg Beaux-.1rts. Though usually classed as an im pressionist, lie is in reality an independent. his art having been subjected to several different Influences, and being. abole all else, personal. lie at first painted in manner of Ingres, AN 110111 he deserved the greatest of painter-, and ma; also a grit• admirer of Ftelacroix. less for that artist's than for the noble a, tion in his pictures. His softness and fluency of modeling resembled the modeling of Nlanet, and from the dap:mese he learned his absolute free dom of composition, fantastic decoration. and
pee tdiar emphasis. Ilis f.rst pictures Were his torical subjects. but lie soon turned to genre of modern life. _inning the large variety of subject: which he treated, the best known are his "Pace horses" and minicrous "Ballet Girls." The former arc distinguished for their tine at thin. while the hitter have been his favorite subject since the seventios: he has painted them in a great variety of movements, \Vith age lie has become increasingly tak ing little interest in natural, normal life. lie has scoured the shuns of Paris in search of sub jeds, and lin, depicted the \ an 1 degen e rate. iu sn far as they are picturesque. His coloring and brush work are fine. llis litter work is almost entirely pastel. his composition is daring and original; lie does not hesitate to bisect figures, stage philtres often showing nothing hut the heads of the orchestra and the legs of the dancers. Nevertheless, his work is very popular in .1meriea as well as in Franey. Consult : \hither. II iNfory of 11,.(I, ea Painting, vol. ii. (London, Brownell. .1 rf (New York, 19011; '-Itranallan. History of I'reneii Painting New York,