Reference:
Koptzeva N.P., Reznikova K..
Three paintings by Albert-Charles Lebourg and
philosophical foundations of Impressionism of the last
third of the XIX – first third of the XX centuries
// SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. – 2014. – ¹ 1.
– P. 78-90.
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Abstract: Subject of research in this article is an artistic work of the great French artist Albert-Charles
Lebourg. Paintings by Albert-Charles Lebourg belong to the artistic direction of French Impressionism. The
authors make the philosophical and art historical analysis of the works of Albert-Charles Lebourg:1) “Snow
in Auvergne” (the original title “The Bridge over the Allier in Pont du Chateau in Winter” ) (1886); 2) “The
Banks of the Seine”, 1889; 3) “The Two Boats in the Rays of the Rouen Sun”, circa 1900. Research Methodology
has philosophical and art historical analysis, which was developed by Russian philosophers and art
historians: Danneel Pivovarov, Vladimir Zhukovsky, Natalia Koptseva. The article describing the method of
art history work of art. The authors use the method of conceptual analysis to uncover the philosophical
origins of French Impressionism. The hypothesis was proposed that for the first time in European artistic
and intellectual practices Impressionism showed a new paradigm, connected with overcoming the difference
between a person’s internal and external reality, with the discovery of artistic form for expressing
primary and universal integrity, given in direct experience and divided in psychic reality into external and
internal dimensions. The critical artistic analysis of the three paintings by the great French Impressionist
Albert -Charles Lebourg was made: “Snow in Auvergne”, “The banks of the Seine”, “The two boats in the
rays of Rouen sun”, the main artistic ideas of these paintings were revealed. A deep conceptual link of the
three paintings by Albert -Charles Lebourg was found, on the one hand, both artistic Buddhism and artistic
psychologism (as cult (popular) conceptions of European intellectual life before the First World War). It was
shown that Impressionist landscapes of this painter create and convey strongest visual impressions, modeling
not only visual reality, but integral psychophysical reality, including the process of immediate flow of
visual sensations, that has created and is supporting this strongest impression.
Keywords: art studies, cultural studies, impressionism, painting, Albert Charles Lebourg, landscape, philosophy of Art, Ernst Mach, Buddhism, visual thinking.
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