History YMMV / TheFallenAngel

* EvilIsSexy: Several reviews (including the French Website/{{Wikipedia}}) of ''The Fallen Angel'' agree that Cabanel painted Lucifer as a beautiful, [[Myth/ClassicalMythology classical]] TragicHero. This is only highlighted by the fact the angels in the background are drawn with less detail, so they can hardly be considered attractive.

AudienceReaction tropes for Creator/AlexandreCabanel's ''Art/TheFallenAngel''.

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* TrueArtIsAngsty: While Academic critics accused Cabanel of suffusing his Lucifer with too much emotion -- for them, TrueArt was Dispassionate --, it's precisely that display of raw, negative emotions that appeals so much to the public. This is Cabanel's most famous painting, after all. Moreover, contemporary art critics praise him for being able to depict Lucifer's turmoil under the StrictlyFormula constraints of Academic Art.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: While Academic critics accused Cabanel of suffusing his Lucifer with too much emotion -- for them, TrueArt was Dispassionate, it's precisely that display of raw, negative emotions that appeals so much to the public. This is Cabanel's most famous painting, after all. Moreover, contemporary art critics praise him for being able to depict Lucifer's turmoil under the StrictlyFormula constraints of Academic Art.

* EvilIsSexy: Several reviews of this painting agree that Cabanel painted Lucifer as a beautiful, [[Myth/ClassicalMythology classical]] TragicHero. This is only highlighted by the fact the angels in the background are drawn with less detail, so they can hardly be considered attractive.

* CriticalDissonance: When Cabanel presented this painting to the judges of the Salon of Paris, he was harshly judged for not following the very StrictlyFormula that Academicism mandated. ''The Fallen Angel'' was called sloppy, of uneven composition, and subpar proportions. Additionally, the emotions simmering on Lucifer's countenance were deemed more appropriate for a {{Romantic|ism}} piece than for an idealized (dispassionate) rendition of reality. It didn't get better after Academicism died out -- modernist art critics accused this and the rest of Cabanel's paintings of being the contrary: too apathetic, idealized, and just not free as art ought to be. Meanwhile, the public has adored this artwork since the first time it was exhibited. Come the later half of the [=XXth=] century and creators (not all of them art-savvy) from all walks of life have [[ArtImitatesArt referenced]] Cabanel's Lucifer on {{Satan Archetype}}s and characters pulling a FaceHeelTurn. Or just angsty characters, really.

* CriticalDissonace: When Cabanel presented this painting to the judges of the Salon of Paris, he was harshly judged for not following the very StrictFormula that Academicism mandated. ''The Fallen Angel'' was called sloppy, of uneven composition, and subpar proportions. Additionally, the emotions simmering on Lucifer's countenance were deemed more appropriate for a {{Romantic|ism}} piece than for an idealized (dispassionate) rendition of reality. It didn't get better after Academicism died out -- modernist art critics accused this and the rest of Cabanel's paintings of being the contrary: too apathetic, idealized, and just not free as art ought to be. Meanwhile, the public has adored this artwork since the first time it was exhibited. Come the later half of the [=XXth=] century and creators (not all of them art-savvy) from all walks of life have [[ArtImitatesArt referenced]] Cabanel's Lucifer on {{Satan Archetype}}s and characters pulling a FaceHeelTurn. Or just angsty characters, really.

* EvilIsSexy: Several reviews of this painting agree that Cabanel painted Lucifer as a beautiful, [[Myth/ClassicalMythology classical]] TragicHero.

* EvilIsSexy: Several reviews of this painting agree that Cabanel painted Lucifer as a beautiful, [[UsefulNotes/ClassicMythology classical]] TragicHero.

* EvilIsSexy: The recently fallen Lucifer is nude, muscled, and handsome whilst the angels still in Heave are wearing robes and are not detailed enough to be considered attractive.