#louis artan de saint martin

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Louis Artan de Saint-Martin (Belgian, 1837-1890), The Artist's Studio. Oil on canvas, 52.5 x 72 cm.

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Louis Victor Antoine ARTAN DE SAINT-MARTIN - Clair de lune

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The harbour defences in choppy waters - Louis Artan de Saint-Martin

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Louis Artan de Saint Martin - The North Sea at Blankenberge (1871) 

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In the studio  -   Louis Artan de Saint-Martin

Belgian, 1837-1890

Oil on canvas, 52.5 x 71.5 cm.    20.7 x 28.1 in.

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Louis Artan de Saint Martin - Le Brise-lames

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Louis Artan - The breeze - 1869

Louis Victor Antonio Artan de Saint-Martin (20 April 1837, The Hague – 23 May 1890, Nieuwpoort) was a Dutch-Belgian painter and etcher who specialized in seascapes.

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Louis Artan de Saint-Martin “Le brise-lames” 1869

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for all the restless souls

the wreck and the mole by louis artan de saint-martin, 1869 

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L’ Epave (1871) - Louis Artan de Saint Martin

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View of a pier on the sea  -   Louis Artan de Saint-Martin 

Belgian, 1837-1890

Oil on canvas,  62 x 85 cm.   24.4 x 33.5 in.

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Louis Artan - Seascape - 

Louis Victor Antonio Artan de Saint-Martin (20 April 1837, The Hague – 23 May 1890, Nieuwpoort) was a Dutch-Belgian painter and etcher who specialized in seascapes.

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Louis Artan de Saint Martin - The North Sea at Blankenberge - 1871

Louis Victor Antonio Artan de Saint-Martin (20 April 1837, The Hague – 23 May 1890, Nieuwpoort) was a Dutch-Belgian painter and etcher who specialized in seascapes.

He became one of the sixteen co-founders the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts, an association opposed to the stylistic hegemony of the academies and salons.

The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts ("Free Society of Fine Arts") was an organization formed in 1868 by Belgian artists to react against academicism and to advance Realist painting and artistic freedom. Based in Brussels, the society was active until 1876, by which time the aesthetic values it espoused had infiltrated the official Salon. It played a formative role in establishing avant-gardism in Belgium.

The Members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts by Edmond Lambrichs : from left to right, sitting are Huberti, Boudin, Degroux, Van Camp, Bouré, Verwée, C. Meunier, Dubois (holding copies of L'Art libre and L'Art Universel); standing, Lambrichs, Artan, Rops, Raeymaeckers, J.B. Meunier, Smits, Baron, De la Charlerie

Edmond Alphonse Charles Lambrichs - Portrait of members of the Société libre des Beaux-Arts - 1868

The first exhibition of the Free Society was held in 1868 to provide an alternative art space beyond the Salon. Three exhibitions were held in 1872. The society's manifesto was written by Camille van Camp (nl) and published 31 January 1869. It promoted the "free and individual interpretation of nature" characteristic of Realist art, along with avant-garde concepts such as "struggle, change, freedom, progress, originality and tolerance."

The society published the periodicals L'Art Libre, a bi-monthly review (1871–72), and L'Art Universel (1873–76). In the first issue of L'Art Libre, they collectively asserted:

“ Artistic independence must be spawned by force. It is our desire that art be free. The art of our time must return to man and nature. ” The goals of the Free Society were influenced by aesthetic ideals set forth by Gustave Courbet and the Barbizon artists and by the poet Charles Baudelaire. "Modernity" and "sincerity" were keywords. Official cultural critics were at first openly hostile. Two early champions, however, were the critics Camille Lemonnier, a member, who urged that they should "be of their own time," and Théo Hannon (1851-1916), who saw them as rebels against artificiality.

A group portrait by society member Edmond Lambrichs shows the 16 artists of the original organizing committee. The society attracted in particular landscape painters working at the Atelier Saint-Luc of Brussels, also known as the Académie de Saint-Luc (ca. 1846–1864). Louis Dubois, Félicien Rops, Constantin Meunier and Louis Artan de Saint-Martin are considered leading members. Most of the society's members had also belonged to the Artistic and Literary Circle of Brussels and the Royal Belgian Society of Watercolorists.[ After the society dissolved, several members joined groups such as La Chrysalide and Les XX.

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Louis Artan - Nortsea with ships and dunes - 

Louis Victor Antonio Artan de Saint-Martin (20 April 1837, The Hague – 23 May 1890, Nieuwpoort) was a Dutch-Belgian painter and etcher who specialized in seascapes.

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Louis Artan - Seascape, ships on sea -

Louis Victor Antonio Artan de Saint-Martin (20 April 1837, The Hague – 23 May 1890, Nieuwpoort) was a Dutch-Belgian painter and etcher who specialized in seascapes.

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le brise-lames by louis artan de saint-martin

wash me away