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Félicien Rops
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Félicien Victor Joseph Rops was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism, Decadence, and the Parisian fin de siècle, and was a member of the Les XX group. He was a painter, illustrator, caricaturist
Rops c. 1860
Rops c. 1860
Felicien Rops in his Studio by Paul Mathey
Felicien Rops in his Studio by Paul Mathey
A Self-Portrait in crayon and ink from the 1860s (detail)
A Self-Portrait in crayon and ink from the 1860s (detail)
Entrance to the Ball (ca. 1858) Oil on canvas, mounted on board (29.5 x 21 cm) Musée Félicien Rops, Namur, Belgium
Entrance to the Ball (ca. 1858) Oil on canvas, mounted on board (29.5 x 21 cm) Musée Félicien Rops, Namur, Belgium
Decadent movement
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The Decadent movement was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.
Félicien Rops
…curious" and pieces like Sailors Den, Cherub's Song, and The Absinthe Drinker can be viewed as works of realism just as they can be seen as works of the decadent movement. Rops once wrote: "The love of brutal pleasures, the pre-occupation with money, and mean interests have glued onto the faces of most of our contemporaries…
Apostle Bartolomew flayed alive, by Jan Luyken, 1685
Apostle Bartolomew flayed alive, by Jan Luyken, 1685
Title page of the magazine Le Décadent
Title page of the magazine Le Décadent
Medardo Rosso, Sick child, 1903–04
Medardo Rosso, Sick child, 1903–04
Portrait of Euphemia Pavlova Nosova [ru] by Nikolai Kalmakov
Portrait of Euphemia Pavlova Nosova [ru] by Nikolai Kalmakov