The Arcades Project - Operi

This phony in sum knows how to manage his affairs. But what will Brussels do
with all this after his death? I Trompe-l'oeil. The bellows camera. Napoleon in
hell. The book of Waterloo. Wiertz and Victor Hugo are out to save the world."
[S7,2]
Ingres, in his ReportSe au rapport sur I 'Ecole des Beaux-Arts (paris, 1863), makes the
bluntest possible defense of the institutions of the school before the Minister of
Fine Arts, to whom the communication is directed. In this, he does not take sides
against Romanticism. His response has to do, from the beginning (p. 4), with
industry: "Now people want to marry industry to art. Industry! We want none of
it! Let it keep to its place and not come plant itself on the steps of our
school ... !"-Ingres insists on making drawing the sole basis of instruction in
painting. One can learn the use of colors in eight days. [S 7 a, I]
Daniel Halevy remembers seeing Italian models in his childhood-women dressed
in the costume of Sorrento with a tambourine in their hands, who used to stand
chatting at the fountain in the Place Pigalle. See Halevy, Pays parisiens , p. 60. [S7a,2]
The life of flowers in Jugendstil: from the flowers of evil extends an are, over the
flower-souls of Odilon Redan, to the orchids which Proust weaves into the eroticism
of his Swann. [S7a,3]
Segantini's "unnatural mothers;' as a motif of Jugendstil, closely related to Les
Lesbiennes . The depraved woman stays clear of fertility, as the priest
stays clear of it.Jugendstil, in fact, describes two distinct lines. That of perversion
leads from Baudelaire to Wilde and Beardsley; the hieratic line leads through
Mallarme to George. In the end, a third line stands out more vigorously, the only
one that here and there emerges from the realm of art. This is the line of emancipation,
which, taking its departure from Les FleUJ's du mal, conjoins the underworld
that produces the Tagebuch einer Verlorenen'8 with the heights of Zarathustra.
(This, presumably, the point of the remark made by Capus.) [S7a,4]
Motif of infertility: Ibsen's women characters don't sleep with their men; they go
"hand in hand" with them to encounter something terrible. [S7a,5]
TI,e perverse flower-glance of Odilon Redon. [87a,6]
Formulas of emancipation in Ibsen: the ideal challenge; dying in beauty; homes
for human beings ; one's own responsibility (The Ladyjrom the Sea) .
[S8,IJ
Jugendstil is the stylizing style par excellence. [S8,2]