| ART “4”
“2”-DAY 06
October |
| BIRTH:
1887 LE CORBUSIER |
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Died on 06 October 1927: Louis
Paul Henri Sérusier, French
Nabi painter and theorist born on 09 November 1864. — [a-t-il jamais
peint un cerisier? un serrurier?] — Son of a wealthy perfume and glove manufacturer, he was a star student at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, early on showing a bent towards philosophy. Having little inclination for business, Sérusier was eventually allowed to follow his chosen career of art. He studied at the Académie Julian (1885–1890), where his popularity and wide-ranging intellectual gifts led to his election as chief student monitor (massier). This position gave him a certain authority, which was increased when his painting of Un Tisseur Breton (1888) won an honorable mention at the Salon of 1888. Paul Gauguin was one of his teachers. — Séjournant pendant l'été 1888 à Concarneau, il se rend à Pont-Aven et fait la connaissance d'Emile Bernard qui le présente à Gauguin. Sur les conseils de Gauguin, Sérusier peint Le Talisman. De retour à Paris, il fonde avec Bonnard, Denis, Ranson, Ibels et Piot le groupe des Nabis ("prophètes" en hébreu). Après le départ de Gauguin, Sérusier abandonne Pont-Aven et le Pouldu et séjourne dans le centre de la Bretagne, au Huelgoat. Puis il s'installe à Chateauneuf-du-Faou. Sa peinture évolue, il peint des sujets religieux, mythologiques et légendaires, décore sa maison de fresques. — The students of Sérusier included Lucia Dem Balacescu and Roger de La Fresnaye. — LINKS — Le Bois d'Amour (Talisman) (1888; 2089x1648pix; 932kb) — Sous la Lampe — Le Pardon de Notre-Dame-de-Portes à Châteauneuf du Faou — L'Incantation ou Le Bois sacré — Jeune Bretonne à la cruche — La Vieille du Pouldu — Paysage ogival — Portrait de jeune Bretonne _ (38x23cm) _ Dans ce portrait, Sérusier procède un peu à la manière des Primitifs italiens du Quattrocento, en plaçant la figure de profil dans un environnement dépouillé. L'élégance figée de cette jeune Bretonne en costume de pardon est caractéristique de la période de Sérusier au Huelgoat et à Châteauneuf-du-Faou. |
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Born on 06 October 1887: Charles~Édouard Jeanneret “Le Corbusier”,
Swiss French architect, urban planner, painter, lithographer, writer, designer,
and theorist, active mostly in France, who died on 27 August 1965. He adopted
the pseudonym Le Corbusier for his architectural work about 1920 and for
his paintings about 1930. — He studied engraving and chasing at the art school in his native La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. He received his first architectural commission in 1905. Worked with the architects Josef Hoffmann in Vienna 1907-1908, Auguste Perret in Paris 1908-1909 and Peter Behrens in Berlin 1910; also traveled extensively throughout Europe. Settled in 1917 in Paris, where he met Ozenfant with whom he founded the Purist movement in painting: still-life compositions of standardized objects such as bottles and musical instruments in profile. First one-man exhibition with Ozenfant at the Galerie Thomas, Paris, 1918. Wrote with Ozenfant Après le Cubisme (1918) and La Peinture Moderne (1925), and founded with him the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau 1920-1925. Though increasingly active as an architect, he continued always to paint, signing his works first 'Jeanneret' then from 1928 'Le Corbusier', a pseudonym derived from the name of a maternal grandparent. From about 1926 began to include the human figure in his compositions and to work in a freer, more Surrealist style. Took French nationality in 1930. His later works included a series of woodcarvings made from 1945 with the aid of Joseph Savina, and a number of designs for tapestries. Le Corbusier died at Cap Martin. — In the range of his work and in his ability to enrage the establishment and surprise his followers, he was matched in the field of modern architecture perhaps only by Frank Lloyd Wright. His visionary books, startling white houses and terrifying urban plans set him at the head of the Modern Movement in the 1920s, while in the 1930s he became more of a complex and sceptical explorer of cultural and architectural possibilities. After World War II he frequently shifted position, serving as ‘Old Master’ of the establishment of modern architecture and as unpredictable and charismatic leader for the young. Most of his great ambitions (urban and housing projects) were never fulfilled. However, the power of his designs to stimulate thought is the hallmark of his career. Before he died, he established the Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris to look after and make available to scholars his library, architectural drawings, sketches and paintings. — LINKS — La Main Ouverte (1955 color lithograph, 54x40cm; full size; or see it the recommended quarter-size) — Taureau III (1953, 162x114cm) — La Chute de Barcelone (1939, 81x100cm) — Guitare Verticale (1934, 100x81cm) — Nature morte à la pile d'assiettes (1920, 81x100cm) — Femme couchée, cordage et bateau à la porte ouverte (1935, 130x162cm) |
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Died on 06 October 1889: Jules
Dupré, French Barbizon
School painter born on 05 April 1811, specialized in landscapes . —
[Lui, au moins, il a fait honneur a son nom. Voyez ses tableaux du pré.]
— Not to be confused with French Realist artist Julien Dupré [1851-1910] — Dupré was a founder of modern French landscape painting. He was born in Nantes, the son of a porcelain manufacturer. Settling in Paris, he was influenced by 17th-century Dutch landscape paintings in the Louvre, by the early 19th-century English landscapist John Constable [1776-1837] and by the leading Barbizon landscapist Théodore Rousseau. (1812~1867). Dupré's work expresses the brooding, dramatic aspects of nature. In his later works, the vivid, sharply contrasting colors are applied in thick impasto. — He began his career in Creil, Ile de France, as a decorator of porcelain in the factory of his father, François Dupré [1781–], and later worked at the factory founded by his father in Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Limousin. It was in this region of central France that Dupré became enchanted by the beauty of nature. He went to Paris to study under the landscape painter Jean-Michel Diébolt [1779–], who had been a student of Jean-Louis Demarne. Dupré began to see nature with a new awareness of its moods, preferring to paint alone and en plein air. He was fascinated by bad weather, changes of light and sunsets. Many of his paintings depict quiet woodland glades, often with a pond or stream (e.g. Plateau of Bellecroix, 1830). In 1830–1831 he associated with other young landscape painters, including Louis Cabat, Constant Troyon, and Théodore Rousseau, and with them sought inspiration for his study of nature in the provinces, exhibiting the finished paintings at the annual Salons. In 1832 he visited the region of Berry with Cabat and Troyon, and in 1834 he was among the first French landscape painters to visit England. He spent time in London, Plymouth, and Southampton and painted several views of these cities (e.g. Environs of Southampton, 1835). While in England he met, and was influenced by, Constable, Turner, and Richard Parkes Bonington. He traveled to the Landes and the Pyrenees with Rousseau in 1844, and they also explored the forests of the Ile de France in search of motifs. Dupré also painted in Normandy, Picardy, and Sologne. Although he was a member of the Barbizon school, he did not visit the Forest of Fontainebleau as frequently as did others of the group, preferring instead to settle in 1849 in the village of L’Isle-Adam, north of Paris, where he remained for much of his life. — Louis Valtat was a student of Dupré. — LINKS — Landscape (Haying Time) (66x105cm) — Landscape (43x59cm) — A_View_of_The_Pantheon_and_the_Church_of_Saint-Etienne_Du_Mont_Paris. — Landscape With Lady In Red. (1830) — Fontainebleau Oaks (1842, 81x99cm) |