Cet ouvrage exceptionnel retrace le travail du peintre Henri Rousseau, dit Le Douanier Rousseau. Bien que ces toiles représentent souvent des paysages de jungle, il n'a jamais quitté la France : il trouve son inspiration dans les livres illustrés, les jardins botaniques et dans ses rencontres avec des soldats ayant participé à l'intervention française au Mexique. Le texte de Nathalia Brodskaïa nous éclaire ici sur la naissance de l'art naïf et sur le rôle déterminant du Douanier Rousseau dans cette nouvelle vision de l'art. En dépit de l'aspect enfantin qui lui valu beaucoup de moqueries, ses toiles montrent une technique élaborée. Les premières critiques positives arrivent vers 1891, période à laquelle il rencontre de nombreux artistes, peintres ou écrivains qui seront fortement influencés par son travail comme Guillaume Apollinaire, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec ou encore Pablo Picasso. « Ce qu'il voyait n'était qu'amour et nous fera toujours des yeux émerveillés ». Paul Eluard
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Nathalia Brodskaïa, curatrice presso il Museo dell'Ermitage di San Pietroburgo, dedica la sua ricerca ai pittori francesi della fine del XIX e dell'inizio del XX secolo. Il suo lavoro esplora gli stili e i temi distintivi di artisti come Rousseau, Renoir, Derain, Vallotton, Vlaminck e Van Dongen, oltre a movimenti come il Fauvismo e l'arte Naïf. Attraverso i suoi scritti, Brodskaïa illumina le innovazioni e i dialoghi artistici che hanno caratterizzato questo periodo cruciale nella storia dell'arte. Il suo lavoro offre prospettive illuminanti sull'evoluzione dell'arte moderna e sull'eredità duratura delle sue figure pionieristiche.
The Dada movement and then the Surrealists appeared in the First World War aftermath with a bang: revolution of thought, creativity, and the wish to break away from the past and all that was left in ruins. This refusal to integrate into the Bourgeois society lead Georg Grosz to remark of Dada, "it's the end of-isms." Breton asserted that Dada does not produce perspective, "a machine which functions full steam, but where it remains to be seen how it can feed itself." Surrealism emerged amidst such feeling. These artists often changed from one movement to another. They were united by their superior intellectualism and the common goal to break from the norm. Describing Dada with its dynamic free-thinkers, and the Surrealists with their aversive resistance to the system, the author brings a new approach which strives to be relative and truthful. Provocation and cultural revolution: Dada and the Surrealists, aren't they above all just a direct product of creative individualism in this unsettled period?
Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, the work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir champions painting at its most lighthearted and luminous. This essential artist introduction selects key works from his extensive oeuvre to explore his Impressionist innovations as much as his traditions in pursuit of beauty, harmony, and the female form.