Monday 20 May 2013

French Art

   French  Art
(20 Century)

★ Jean  Dubuffet - "Art Brut"

 Jean  Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) was a french Artist & Sculptor.  Dubuffet In 1918, he had enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris, but left after only six months to work independently. In 1923, after reading Hans Prinzhorn's Bildnerei der Geisteskranken (1922), in which the art of the mentally ill was first considered to have aesthetic value, Dubuffet became interested in pictures made by those without formal training—the uninitiated, the alienated, and especially the insane. Many years later, in 1945, he started a collection of these pictures, which he called "Art Brut". Also came to reject the methods and values of traditional art. "Beautiful" and "ugly" had no meaning for him, and he tirelessly defended his "anti-art" and "anti-culture" theories in lectures and in two volumes of essays (1967). He wanted his subject matter to be accessible to simple people and to relate to their daily lives, and thus his first paintings were of Parisians riding the crowded metro.


(Fear - Jean Dubuffet)

  Tamara de Lempicka




  "La bella Rafaela" by Tamara de Lempicka



★ French Artist Yves Klein (1928-1962) was born in Nice, (France).  He was very well known for his monochromatic paintings, especially the ones he created between 1957 and 1959 in a blue pigment that he discovered and later patented as International Klein Blue. He was also one of the founders of the Nouvelle Réalisme group that also included artists like Arman, Daniel Spoerri and Christo..
He's autor 'The Chelsea Hotel Manifesto" etc 




 

Yves Klein: Rocket Pneumatique

A cabaret dancer,  Paris. 1910
(Photo; by General Photographic Agency)
 Adolf Hitler In Paris, Eiffel Tower.
(Adolf Hitler and his entourage pose in front of the Eiffel Tower shortly after the fall of France.  Photo by Art Resource, New York)



Vintage Moulin Rouge, Paris.

Eiffel Tower, bY Robert Delaunay, 1911. (MONSTER. k. s)


Man with flower . R. D  
  



 Yury Pen,  Portrait of Marc Chagall   
Paris Through the Window, 1913,  by  Marc Chagall 

 Marc Chagall

 Man Ray's "Imaginary Portrait of the Marquis de Sade". 


Artist Henri Matisse  With Model 







 Georges  Rouault's Miserere









Sonia Delaunay "Dubonnet"


  Specter Of The Gardenia, By Marcel Jean












Marcel Duchamp -'bicycle Wheel' 1913









Marcel Duchamp's  'Fountain' & I, In Tate Gallery. 


Suzanne Valadon, Her Son Maurice Utrillo  &
André Utter, French Painters.

Young Bohemia; Portrait of Erik Satie, By  Suzanne Valadon

















Suzanne Valadon, "The Fortune Teller', 1912













Hans Bellmer - Double Sexus



  

 "La Coupole", boulevard Montparnasse. Paris, 1930.






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