54. Tinmen

At the end of the 2oth century, Jean Neylies entered for the first time in the workshop of Jean-Léon Gérôme as a free and definite listener, where he would remain for nine years. Having arrived in Paris with the idea of becoming a hairdresser, he will reorient his professional path towards Fine Arts following his meeting with the scholar Gheorghe Marinescu. In the specific Parisian atmosphere of the late 19th century, the two will meet at the epicentre of the European cultural scene, the Louvre Museum. Following the specific harmony of the time, Neylies would simultaneously attend Professor Gérôme's classes as well as those of the Conservatory, as music and painting naturally intertwined and complemented each other in his life. The artist will illustrate Gheorghe Marinescu's neurology treatises and will follow him to Bucharest, where he will work as a draughtsman at Pantelimon and Colentina hospitals. He arrives, thus, in Bucharest in 1897 and installs in a service housing in Colentina hospital courtyard. He will continue to develop his technique in oil painting as well, and will join the artistic movements of the time. He will start in 1903 with a personal exhibition organised at the Romanian Athenaeum. He will also exhibit, within the Official Salon of Artistic Youth, Living Artists' Official Exhibitions in Bucharest, but also at the Paris Art Salons. He will create paintings and frescoes for Queen Marie and will be sought in the teaching body of the National School of Fine Arts. His art was researched by personalities such as doctor Constantin Bogdan, the Director of Saint Luca Hospital. His stay in Romania gets him closer to the culture and traditions of the country, the themes which he will adopt and transpose in his work. He paints peasant women, shepherds, horas and country scenes, and captures the life of minorities, thus creating a panorama of our society. He will return for a short period in France, in 1914, but he will come back to Romania, where he will remain for the rest of his life. The pictorial style adopted by Jean Neylies has sometimes been likened to the realism proposed by Gustave Courbet, and the determined brushstrokes, materialised by a surprising force, are the result of the artist's stay in the workshop of the French master Jean-Léon Gérôme.

References

OCTAVIAN, Tudor, "Forgotten Romanian Painters", Noi Media Print Publishing House, Bucharest, 2003. BADEA-PĂUN, Gabriel, "Romanian painters in France", Noi Media Print Publishing House, Bucharest, 2012.

Dimensions

width 44.5 cm, height 32.5 cm, custom 32,5 × 44,5 cm

Description

oil on canvas pasted on cardboard, signed bottom right, in brown, "J. Neylies"

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