@article{Rachwalska von Rejchwald_2019, title={Un Pygmalion moderne. L’artiste aux limites de l’art dans "L’OEuvre" d’Émile Zola}, url={https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/romanica/article/view/4132}, DOI={10.18778/1505-9065.13.11}, abstractNote={<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This article introduces a deliberation on the nature and work of an ingenious artist. Frenhofer and Claude Lantier are both artists<em>-</em></span><span style="font-size: medium;">painters that try to transcend </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">– </span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">thanks to their talents </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">– </span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">the limit of their art form. They strive for enriching the otherwise two-dimensional painting plains with the third dimension by “invigorating” women they are creating. In order to do so they are forced to repudiate part of their humanity, to strongly confront reality and to utterly devote all their energy to an idealized concept formed by their imagination. They keep reiterating their work, introducing endless amendments that paradoxically bring about the contrary effect, since the pieces start to be overwhelmed with chaos and disintegration. The question arises whether the created pieces correspond to reality or are they maybe self-portraits of the ingenious artists that lead an inner fight with their internal exemplars?</span></span></p>}, number={13}, journal={Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Romanica}, author={Rachwalska von Rejchwald, Jolanta}, year={2019}, month={févr.}, pages={115–126} }