Her contemplative films (never videos) unpack the world the way Cezanne and Chardin do.
Chardin gives some curious information on the subject (Erskine).
But Chardin had another merit besides that of making a fortune.
Only very few sketches by Chardin are known, and these few proclaim the painter rather than the draughtsman.
Chardin did not consider that Sadi and Lokman were Persians.
Chardin's pictures are as beautiful and bright to-day as they were when he painted them.
Chardin's art is living and sincere, with never a trace of affectation.
Chardin, who in more ways than one seems to have been a French Baschenis, used it in several pictures.
Yet Chardin, the bourgeois incarnate, was anything but a Philistine.
Thus it would appear that Chardin discounted the effects of time and worked for posterity.
