| Created at the home of Camille Van Camp in March 1868, this was the expression, at a precise moment in the history of 19th century painting, of a tense situation of conflict between academism and the masterful avant-garde. |
| Escaping from the groves of classical academism, he was initialy drawn to jazz but gradually abandoned it in favour of traditional Balkan music. |
| Fascinated by the facade academism and the ideology of the superficial, it continuously ignores the social reality, its adventures, its risks and its upheavals. |
| A painter of the reality ยป, a painting, Coccording to Maurice Druon, he has expressed himself according to classical techniques, short of academism. His paintings reveal his feelings with simplicity and ingenuity. |
| Beauty and serenity emanate from these works, in which the artist, whilst respecting the obligatory aesthetic canons, liberates himself from academism by creating a multitude of coiffures and decorations. |
| I do not have to in no case the intention to paint something of beautiful, of pleasant to look at, rejecting by principle any idea of academism. |
