Guillaume Seignac
Guillaume Seignac was a French Academic painter who lived from 1870 to 1924. Seignac studied academic and classical style art at the Académie Julian in Paris, France.
Academic art emphasized the human figure and most of Seignac’s pieces depict beautiful women in classical or neoclassical poses. His art often contained mythological figures or allegorical subjects. One of his teachers was noted artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau who instilled in Seignac an appreciation for the French neoclassicists of the early nineteenth century.
From 1897 on, Guillaume Seignac displayed many of his works at the famous Salon in Paris where he even was notably honored. He was noted for having highly technical skills with the human figure and balanced the colors in his canvas between warm and cool. Seignac did quite well in his life, selling his art in New York, London, and Paris.
His art was especially popular just before the First World War, and during the 1920s. His art appealed to both the traditional art buyer as well as the younger more avant-garde audience who were smitten with the Art Nouveau movement. Though he was born in Rennes, Seignac spent all of his adult life in Paris and was there when he died in 1924 at 54 years of age.
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