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Naïve Art: “Successor” of primitive arts at the end of the 19th century
Naive art counts among it artists: Henri Rousseau, Séraphine de Senlis, André Bauchant, and Camille Bombois. This movement has also found adherents abroad, including such prominent artists as Joan Miró, Guido Vedovato, Niko Pirosmani, and Ivan Generalic.
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Les Nabis : Aventure des artistes impressionnistes et postimpressionnistes
Pierre Bonnard fut le chef de file d’un groupe de peintres post-impressionnistes, lesquels se nommèrent eux-mêmes les Nabis, du mot hébreux signifiant « prophète ». Influencés par Odilon Redon ou encore Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, l’imagerie populaire ou les estampes japonaises, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Denis, pour les plus illustres, révolutionnèrent l’esprit des techniques décoratives durant l’une des époques les plus riches de la peinture française. Et, si l’individualisme croissant de leurs créations ébranla souvent leur unité, les Nabis furent avant tout un groupe d’amis.
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The Nabis: Adventure of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists
Pierre Bonnard was the leader of the group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves “the Nabis”, from the Hebrew word for “prophet”. Influenced by Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, popular imagery, and Japanese woodblock printing, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton and Denis (to name the most prominent members) revolutionised the spirit of decorative technique during one of the richest periods in French painting.
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Spotlight on Marc Chagall
The text below is the excerpt from the book Marc Chagall, written by Victoria Charles, published by Parkstone International. Through one of those curious reversals of fate, one more exile has regained his native land. Since the exhibition of his work at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow in 1987 and which gave rise to an extraordinary popular fervour, Marc Chagall has experienced a second birth. Here we have a painter, perhaps the most unusual painter of the twentieth century, who at last, attained the object of his inner quest: the love of his Russia. Thus, the hope expressed in the last lines of My Life, the autobiographical narrative which the…
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Bonnard – La couleur de la mémoire
En octobre 1947, le musée de l’Orangerie à Paris organisa une grande exposition posthume des œuvres de Bonnard. À la fin de cette même année parut un numéro de l’influente revue Cahiers d’Art. Dans son article, figurant en première page, ≪ Pierre Bonnard un grand peintre? ≫, l’éditeur des Cahiers, Christian Zervos se faisait l’écho de l’exposition. Tout d’abord, Zervos en saluait l’importance dans la mesure où auparavant seules de rares expositions de peu d’envergure permettaient de juger de l’œuvre de Bonnard. Mais, poursuivait Zervos, celle-ci l’avait déçu, car les mérites de l’artiste ne nécessitaient pas pareille exposition : ≪ …Bonnard, ne l’oublions pas, a vécu ses premières années de travail sous le beau rayon…
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Pierre Bonnard – The colour of history
In October 1947, the Musée de l’Orangerie arranged a large posthumous exhibition of Bonnard’s work. Towards the close of the year, an article devoted to this exhibition appeared on the first page of the latest issue of the authoritative periodical Cahiers d’Art. The publisher, Christian Zervos, gave his short article the title “Pierre Bonnard, est-il un grand peintre?” (Is Pierre Bonnard a Great Artist?) In the opening paragraph Zervos remarked on the scope of the exhibition, since previously Bonnard’s work could be judged only from a small number of minor exhibitions. But, he went on, the exhibition had disappointed him: the achievements of this artist were not sufficient for a…
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Lost Masterpiece, Forgotten Artist and Hollywood: Rediscovering Eastern Europe’s Avant-Garde Art
In December of 2008, Gergely Barki was at home in Budapest watching Stuart Little with his daughter when he spotted a familiar painting in the background of one of the scenes. Thinking his eyes were playing tricks on him, he leapt off the couch and brought his face close to the television, wiping the screen with his hand so he could get a better look at the painting. “It can’t be real!” he thought. Intrigued, Barki, an art historian at the National Gallery in Budapest, called Sony Pictures and tracked down the film’s set designer, who was living in the Washington D.C. area. She told him had originally purchased the piece for…
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The future is black!
A simple black square by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich was first presented to the public in 1915. What a sensation! At the same time the image caused both incomprehension and rejection – the viewer could neither make out representational features nor see shapes or lines in this composition. While the First World War was already raging in Europe, Malevich had created an unprecedented painting implying a dark premonition of the future. Today Black Suprematic Square by Malevich is an icon of modern painting mentioned in countless books about 20th-century art. During his life the artist himself referred to his masterpiece several times in his work, just like in his self-portrait…
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