Childhood

He was born in Rennes, France, in 1870, and died in 1924. He started training at the Académie Julian

Académie Julian

The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France.Rodolphe Julian established the Académie Julian in 1868 at the Passage des Panoramas, as a private studio school for art students. The Académie Julian not only prepared students to the exams at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, but offered...

 in Paris, where he spent 1889 through 1895. He had a lot of teachers there, including Gabriel Ferrier, and Tony Robert-Fluery. Tony Robert Fluery was a noted history and genre artist. Gabriel Farrel, on the other hand, had been an awarded Prix de Rome. He had another one named William Bouguereau.

Career

In addition to his training in the academic style, much of Seignac's work displayed classical

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...

 themes and style, for example, is use of diaphanous drapery covering a woman's body is reminiscent of classical style, in particular the sculptor Phidias

Phidias

Phidias or the great Pheidias , was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece: Phidias' Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World...

. In 1897, Guillaume Seignac regularly exhibited at the Salon and won several honors, including in 1900 honorable mention and in 1903 a Third Class medal.

List of paintings

• An Afternoon Rest
• Beauty At The Well
• Confidence
• Cupid And Psyche
• Cupid Disarmed
• Cupid's Folly
• Diana Hunting
• Faunesse
• Innocence
• L'Abandon
• La Libellule
• La Paresseuse
• Loves Advances
• Nude On The Beach
• Nymph
• Nymph At The Fountain
• Nymph With Cupids
• Pierrot's Embrace
• Psyche
• Reflections
• The Awakening Of Psyche
• The Fragrant Iris
• The Muse
• The Wave
• Vanity
• Venus And Cupid
• Virginty
• Young Woman Naked On A Settee
• Young Woman Of Pompeii On A Terrace

External links

• Gallery at Museum Syndicate