Modern painting has had its decadents also--men who have attempted to revert to a sterile past or who have followed in the paths blazed by others without approaching the achievements of the painters imitated.
The decadents of the movement, Degas and his circle, continued their popularising process: their eyes were so fixedly turned inward that they saw little of what was going on about them.
One of the most conspicuous figures among the decadents is Wassily Kandinsky.
They are the creative exponents and the decadents of vital movements, and they in turn have their own imitators and decadents.
Not infrequently they are employed by the decadents of a movement or an epoch because they harmonise so neatly and unostentatiously with pretty colours and delicate themes.
While the form in Matisse at times has all the suavity of contour of a Liombruno or a Romanelli, there is a more purely sensitive reason for it than in the well-taught decadents of the later Renaissance.
Of all the modern decadents they are perhaps the most devitalising for they tacitly repudiate the discoveries of the new men, and strive to turn the minds of the public and of painters alike to the sterilities of antiquity.
But these same decadents and roués, after a period of initiation somewhat longer than that which falls to the lot of ordinary mortals, behaved very gallantly in the Terrible Year.
The "poisonous honey" of French decadents and symbolists has attracted one party; and the others are being swallowed up in the pessimistic nebula of "mystic anarchy" and fatalism.
Gustave Kahn, the symbolist poet, describes Laforgue in his Symbolistes and Decadents as a serious young man, with sober English manners and an extreme rectitude in the matter of clothes.
Ego-maniacs, Decadents and Æsthetes have completely gathered under their banner this refuse of civilized peoples, and march at its head.
But Browning, united with thedecadents on this point, of the value of every human testimony, is divided from them sharply and by a chasm in another equally important point.
But he differs from the psychological decadents and impressionists in this important point, that he thinks that although the blind men found out very little about the elephant, the elephant was an elephant, and was there all the time.
It was French in inspiration and chiefly behind the lead of the Decadents resulted in a species of continental affirmation.
To me it seems that these instincts are a sign of weakness, they are an example of the inability to withstand a stimulus--it is only among decadents that this pity is called a virtue.
Protest against the group ofdecadents who flourished in the 1890's even yet rocks the poetic waves slightly, though these men did not succeed in making the world take them as seriously as it did Byron.
For the decadents conceive that the loveliness of virtue is an age-worn theme which has grown so obvious as to lose its æsthetic appeal, whereas the manifold variety of vice contains unexplored possibilities of fresh, exotic beauty.
Bacchus received his highest honors at the end of the last century from the decadentsin England.
The decadents favor swarthy poets, and, in describing their features, seize upon the most expressive symbols of sensuality.
Many decadents have attacked themselves, by committing suicide, for example.
Those four decadents and the poor agnostic there on the floor are happy.
You are wrong; the decadents have bedevilled you; they are but the froth of the wave that has broken on the shore: the wave of the New Life follows behind to sweep them into nothingness.
But the later decadents were far worse, especially the decadent critics, the decadent illustrators--there were even decadent publishers.
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