My Bohemian Days in Paris (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book My Bohemian Days in Paris (Classic Reprint) written by Julius M. Price and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Bohemian Days in Paris Same, appearance, one finds that a great innovation has come about, for female students are now admitted, and a special atelier has been opened and reserved for their sole use. This is a great concession, and one of the surest signs of the advance of the times. At present there are fewer English and American students in the painter's studios than formerly, this being in all probability due to the fact that the two most popular mait'res, Gerome and Cabanal, have passed away. More over, of late years, many other public studios, under the direction of celebrated men, have been opened in differentparts of Paris. At most of these a fee is made for attendance, but this is generally almost nominal. Many foreign students, therefore, already well grounded in the initial stage of their art, prefer to go direct to one of these private ateliers to waiting for admis sion to the Ecole itself. In spite, however, of these changes, the routine remains practically identical with what it was in my days; for there is no suspicion of rivalry between the studios beyond the kudos of producing the most success ful pupils. The unaffected Bohemianism which so helped to enthuse one for one's work still exists as it did then. Class prejudice, and the cuffs-and-collar brigade, are still unknown, for the conventional has no attraction for the student of the Quartier, where high spirits and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.