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Philippe Burty (6 February 1830 – 3 June 1890) was a French art critic. He contributed to the popularization of
www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Burty/110613
* P. Weisberg, ''The Early Years of Philippe Burty: Art Critic, Amateur and Japoniste, 1855-1875'' (Baltimore, 1967) * * P. Weisberg, ''The Independent Critic: Philippe Burty and the Visual Arts of Mid-Nineteenth-Century France'' (Berne and New York, 1993) {{DEFAULTSORT:Burty, Philippe 1830 births 1890 deaths French art critics
Philippe Burty (6 February 1830 – 3 June 1890) was a French art critic. He contributed to the popularization of Japonism
''Japonisme'' is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858. Japon ...
and the etching revival
The etching revival was the re-emergence and invigoration of etching as an original form of printmaking during the period approximately from 1850 to 1930. The main centres were France, Britain and the United States, but other countries, such as ...
, supported the Impressionists
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...
, and published the letters of Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: Britis ...
.
Burty was born in Paris in 1830. He was best known for his art criticism, and was also an informed art collector, artist, and lithographer. He contributed to the art magazine ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'' since its foundation in 1859, in which he chronicled the arts and other curiosities and shared his tastes in prints and etching
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...
s.
Burty coined the term "Japonism
''Japonisme'' is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858. Japon ...
" in 1872 to describe the vogue in Japanese art then current in Europe.
Burty died in Astaffort
Astaffort (; oc, Astahòrt) is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in southwestern France. It is situated on the river Gers, about 15 km south of Agen. Astaffort has a mill and the church of Sainte-Geneviève.
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in Lot-et-Garonne in 1890. He was the grandfather of the photographer Paul Haviland
Paul Burty Haviland (17 June 1880 – 21 December 1950) was a French-American photographer, writer and arts critic who was closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession.
Biography
Haviland was born to Charles Edward and Madelei ...
and the painter Frank Burty Haviland.
References
www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Burty/110613
* P. Weisberg, ''The Early Years of Philippe Burty: Art Critic, Amateur and Japoniste, 1855-1875'' (Baltimore, 1967) * * P. Weisberg, ''The Independent Critic: Philippe Burty and the Visual Arts of Mid-Nineteenth-Century France'' (Berne and New York, 1993) {{DEFAULTSORT:Burty, Philippe 1830 births 1890 deaths French art critics