Comments on: Pierre-Auguste Cot

By: fossil art

fossil art — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:13:00 +0000

A lveley piece of artwork. Would love to see it. Is it still in new york ?

By: fine art shopper

fine art shopper — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:11:43 +0000

Pierre-Auguste Cot suffres from being around at the same time and place of the impressionists. I think his art would have been much more renowed if this wasn’t the case. But what a time to be alive for an artist !

By: Michael H.

Michael H. — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:39:53 +0000

As of April 4th 2009, Springtime is still hung next to The Storm (in a beautiful juxtaposition, as these seem to be metaphors for different stages of innocence and loss thereof). I would guess that it’s on permanent display.

Keep up the great blog,
Michael

By: Minneapolis Fine Artist Desaraev

Minneapolis Fine Artist Desaraev — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:13:24 +0000

Very informative. I didn’t read the first one of these, just skimmed through your pictures. I love this one of the Storm.

By: Daniel van Benthuysen

Daniel van Benthuysen — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:38:45 +0000

For me, Cot drifts into overly literal story-telling until nothing is left to the viewer’s imagination. As a result, I don’t feel engaged by his work, much as I do respect and at times admire his technique and attention to detail. But in this regard, I think the disparagement of academic art was a reaction against something very specific a kind of overkill that he represents and the reactionary forces of the late 20th century were not entirely without justification.

The sad truth is that an academic approach holds no guarantee for greatness, no matter how hard one works.

Granted, that realization didn’t make it worth dropping required perspective and life drawing classes from a surprising number of university art programs in the western hemisphere by the late 1970s. But there were some valid reasons for recoiling at academic art and I am reminded of some of them every time I look at this fellow’s work. He’s not everybody’s cup of tea.

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By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:14:06 +0000

Good to know. Thanks.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:07:59 +0000

Springtime was still hanging next to The Storm as of January 2008 when I went to see the newly remodeled 19th century wing.