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Cavalier
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Steve Quinn (talk) 02:07, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Etaples art colony.(article November 2013).
Etaples art colony - The multiple issues have been unaddressed for nearly seven years. The article needs a drastic rewrite to get it to Wikipedia standard. Are you able to rewrite and address the multiple issues because there is some good information in there? Some of the links are dead. Would you like help with the rewrite?Dorkinglad (talk) 00:38, 27 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I no longer edit under this name. After I originally created the article in question I left to help edit an art encyclopedia on the other side of the world and had only limited online access outside office hours for most of a couple of years. Unable to reply to the negative criticism at the time, I lost heart and never returned to it. I'd be inclined to tell you to go ahead with sorting the article out but have a few doubts about your knowledge of the subject. Your reasoning on whether there was a real colony in the town suggests massive ignorance. At that period there were colonies all along or just inland from the sea coast from Worpsewede in Germany, across the Netherlands and Belgium and then down to Brittany, of greater or lesser significance. In the case of most, their importance and documentation has been largely a matter of hindsight, but there are major books that cover Étaples and its artists and speak of it as a colony (or rather, a nest of colonies). Two factors rather fog the picture: one is that the significance of many of the North American and Oz/NZ artists, being expats, was not realised until later in their own countries. Their advanced styles relate to what was happening in Paris (only 3 hours away from them by train) and these trends often didn't have a name. The term Post-Impressionist (to which their style relates) was not even coined until 1910 when Roger Fry was casting about for the title of an exhibition he organised in Britain. So if you want to take the subject on, you'll need to have an interest in cultural development across frontiers and an appreciation of the fluidity of artistic styles. It was those phenomena that attracted me to the subject of the article at the start; I rather suspect that it is the way they challenge simplistic color-supplement notions that brought down criticism in the first place! I'll be happy to offer back-seat guidance if you feel equal to the effort. It requires sustained scholarship, not just snipping along the edges. Sweetpool50 (talk) 11:40, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

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