Seated, from left to right are: poet (and Rimbaud's lover) Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud, poet Léon Valade, poet and journalist Ernest d'Hervilly, and politician and journalist Camille Pelletan. However, despite its sober and benign presentation, the painting alludes, in fact, to the ambivalence that existed within the group's members. The academic style of this portraits, executed, as it was, with fine brushwork, and which present the sitters with thoughtful expressions, serves to legitimize their status as men to be reckoned with. Although academic in style (he was also well known for his still lifes), Fantin-Latour was well connected with the French modernists and portrayed intellectuals and artists as avant-garde heroes. Fantin-Latour was well known for his group portraits, which he typically arranged in rows of figures in the manner of 17th-century Dutch guild portraiture.
This painting features several influential French writers, and members of the Parnassus poetry group. The fact that he would come to dismiss his own writing as "absurd, ridiculous disgusting" merely reinforced his status as a modern literary iconoclast. His life was one of scandals, and later, dubious overseas escapades in exotic African countries. The enfant terrible of late 19 th century French literature, Rimbaud was a genuine firebrand whose disreputable lifestyle merely reinforced his status as an archetypal rebel.His influence has passed down through the generations, too, with figures as wide-ranging as Marcel Proust, André Freynaud, David Wojnarowicz, Samuel Beckett, John Ashbery, Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, and Regina Hansen all acknowledging a degree of debt to Rimbaud's way of working. Rimbaud had led the way in showing how one could visualize the workings of the subconscious.
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Following Rimbaud's example, many Dadaists and Surrealists engaged in spontaneous wordplay and other games and activities associated with free association and collage.His writing, which sometimes ventured into mysticism and spiritualism, also dared to celebrate the "virtues" of apathy, laziness, and vice. He would reject all forms of scholarly rationalism, and all concessions to traditional family and civic values. His complex relationship with his domineering mother is well documented by biographers, and it saw him rebel against her strict Catholic standards. Thematically, Rimbaud's poetry also challenged conservative norms.His early association with the Symbolist movement is founded on the understanding that he used signs that alluded to deeper meanings and feelings. It did not matter to him if his visions lacked coherence or shape, and it was images, and the ideas he associated with those images, that determined the arrangement of his poetry. In an approach to writing verse he famously described as a "rational derangement of all the senses", Rimbaud allowed his own observations to dictate his experiments with language and the rhythmic flow of his poems. Rimbaud fully tested the boundaries of traditional forms of verse.
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