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