🖌️🎨 Edmond François Aman-Jean (French: Edmond Aman-Jean; 1858-1936)

 🖌️🎨 Edmond François Aman-Jean (French: Edmond Aman-Jean; 1858-1936) was a French symbolist artist of the Fin de siècle era, who also worked in the Art Nouveau style.

Edmond began studying painting in 1880 at the Paris School of Fine Arts, in the class of historical and portrait painter Henri Lehmann, where he met and became friends with Georges-Pierre Seurat.
Aman-Jean spent a lot of time in the Louvre, “taking lessons” from great predecessors, and after 1883 he turned to Puvis de Chavannes for advice. Later, he worked on Puvis de Chavannes’s large mural “The Sacred Grove”.
After completing his studies in 1885, the artist received an academic scholarship and traveled to Rome. Being an admirer of Goncourt and Flaubert, Edmond Aman-Jean met symbolist poets, including Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine and Philippe-Auguste Villars.
At first, he created canvases on historical and allegorical themes. Subsequently, the artist was known mainly for his decorative, fantasy-filled paintings ("Venice" and others).
His female portraits are also famous, delicate, languid, distinguished by sentimental refinement of features and a melancholic darkened background.
Edmond Aman-Jean was a friend of such famous French symbolists as Mallarmé and Péladan. He took part in the Rose-Croix Salons, and was the author of a poster for the Salon of 1893.
In 1925, the artist, together with Rodin, founded the Salon des Tuileries.
In his later years, he worked under the influence of Pierre Bonnard. He was also a member of the Nabis artists' society.
Edmond François Aman-Jean died on January 23, 1936 in Paris.

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