"NATURAL SCIENTISTS" ARE AGAINST "ROMANTICS": FRENCH ART OF THE XIX <sup>TH</sup> CENTURY THROUGH EMIL ZOLA''S EYES
Images of “Natural Scientist” and “Romantic” opposed to one another and created by head of French naturalism Emil Zola are analyzed in the article. It is pointed that they were used by Zola as instruments, which allowed to separate "us" and "them" and served as instrument for fractional fight in French art. It is noted that images data continue to be use by present-day critical theory, in despite of its sketchiness in comparison with richness of real artistic life of France of the end of XIX <sup>th</sup> century.