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The Frog with Rabbit Ears (1891). <\/em><\/p>\n La mati\u00e8re de l’\u00e9trange<\/em>, an exhibition of ceramic grotesques by Jean Carri\u00e8s is currently running at the Petit Palais<\/a>, Paris, through to January 27th, 2008. Carri\u00e8s doesn’t feature in any of my books about eccentric or fantastic artists which I find surprising, his work is very peculiar by 19th century standards, looking like the creation of a Rodin obsessed by Lautr\u00e9amont. Carri\u00e8s’ series of \u201chorror masks<\/a>\u201d are so similar to the earlier series of heads by sculptor Franz Messerschmidt<\/a> I suspect there may be an influence there. And like Rodin<\/a>, Carri\u00e8s also had unsuccessful plans for a monumental gateway ornamented with his figures and scowling faces. Unlike Rodin, his plaster draft of the work was destroyed by a criminally unsympathetic curator but the Petit Palais exhibition attempts a reconstruction<\/a> based on a model by Eug\u00e8ne Grasset.<\/p>\n Thanks to Nathalie<\/a> for the tip!<\/p>\n \u2022 English article at The Art Tribune<\/a> Head of a Faun (1890\u201392?). <\/em><\/p>\n Grotesque mask, element for the Monumental Door (1891\u201394). <\/em><\/p>\n Elsewhere on { feuilleton } Previously on { feuilleton } The Frog with Rabbit Ears (1891). La mati\u00e8re de l’\u00e9trange, an exhibition of ceramic grotesques by Jean Carri\u00e8s is currently running at the Petit Palais, Paris, through to January 27th, 2008. Carri\u00e8s doesn’t feature in any of my books about eccentric or fantastic artists which I find surprising, his work is very peculiar by 19th … Continue reading “The art of Jean Carri\u00e8s, 1855\u20131894”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,21,41],"tags":[1070,1838,1837,510],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fantasy","category-sculpture","tag-eugene-grasset","tag-franz-xaver-messerschmidt","tag-jean-carries","tag-lautreamont"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-FJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 French page with video of the exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n![\"carries_faun.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/carries_faun.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 The fantastic art archive<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The Masks of Medusa<\/a>
\n\u2022 Bernini\u2019s Anima Dannata<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, 1736\u20131783<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Stanislav Szukalski, 1893\u20131987<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"