Excerpt from Catalogue of Paintings by Jean-Charles Cazin: Exhibited Under the Management of the American Art Association<br><br>To analyze the moral tendencies of contemporary French painting, to set forth the modifications of vision and of ideals which have come to pass within the last thirty years, to characterize even briefly the aims and talents of the most prominent amongst the French painters, would be an agreeable undertaking but unless the subject were treated with considerable development it would scarcely be intelligible, much less edifying, to the general reader. In presence of the multitude of things that appeal to the attention and interest of the men of to day, simplification and elimination of all that is unneces sary are imperative. With the rivalries and discussionsof schools the general reader has no concern; from the influences and suggestions of passing fashion it is less easy for him to escape; nevertheless it will be our en deavor in the following pages to neglect entirely conven tional opinions and current estimations and to speak as concisely as is consistent with clearness of the talents and works of a chosen few contemporary French painters whose personality or whose achievements have given them absolute distinction. Such men are MM. Puvis de Cha vannes, J. C. Cazin, Degas, Rafiaelli, Aime' Motot, Elie Delaunay, dagnan-bouveret.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.