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1926 In Art
Events from the year 1926 in art. Events * Marcel Duchamp's '' The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even'' is accidentally broken. * Marjorie Watson-Williams moves to Paris and adopts the name Paule Vézelay. Awards * Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – ''Silk and Lace'' Works * Max Beckmann – ''Quappi in Blue'' * H. Chalton Bradshaw with bronzes by Gilbert Ledward – Guards Memorial, London * Alexander Calder – '' Cirque Calder'' (wire sculpture) * Alexander Stirling Calder – ''Shakespeare Memorial'', Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Salvador Dalí – '' The Basket of Bread'' * Charles T. Diamond with relief by John Paulding – Astoria Victory Monument, Astoria, Oregon * Edwin Dickinson – '' The Cello Player'' * Max Ernst ** ''The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus before Three Witnesses: A.B., P.E. and the Artist'' ** ''The Dove was Right'' * Alberto Giacometti – ''Spoon Woman'' * Dora Gordine – ''Chinese Head (Chia-Chu Chang: The Chinese Philosopher) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art, and he had a seminal influence on the development of conceptual art. By the time of World War I he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (such as Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind. Early life and education Marcel Duchamp was born at Blainville-Crevon in Normandy, France, to Eugène Duchamp and Lucie Duchamp (formerly Lucie Nicolle) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Dickinson
Edwin Walter Dickinson (October 11, 1891 – December 2, 1978) was an American painter and draftsman best known for psychologically charged self-portraits, quickly painted landscapes, which he called ''premier coups'', and large, hauntingly enigmatic paintings involving figures and objects painted from observation, in which he invested his greatest time and concern. His drawings are also widely admired and were the subject of the first book published on his work. Less well known are his ''premier coup'' portraits and nudes, his medium-sized paintings done entirely from imagination or incorporating elements from one of his drawings or done from observation over several days or weeks, including still lifes, portraits of others, both commissioned and not, and nudes. His style of painting, which eschewed details in favor of close attention to the relationships between masses of color, was strongly influenced by the example of his teacher Charles W. Hawthorne. The strange juxtapositio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Malkine
Georges Alexandre Malkine (10 October 1898 – 22 March 1970) was the only visual artist named in André Breton’s 1924 Surrealist Manifesto among those who, at the time of its publication, had “performed acts of absolute surrealism." The rest Breton named were for the most part writers, including Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos, and Benjamin Peret. Malkine's 1926 painting ''Nuit D'amour'' was the precursor of the lyrical abstract school of painting. *"He has pushed individualism to the point of impertinence! But what art in his expression of the ineffable whenever he took the pains to do so!" — André Breton *"Georges Malkine has left his delicate mark on the window of time, made as with a diamond, without altering its transparence, without blurring the view, leaving the purest trace that can only be discerned from a certain angle and in a certain light." — Patrick Waldberg (1970) Life Georges Malkine chose not to expose his private life and, apart from his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Difficult Crossing
''The Difficult Crossing'' ''(La traversée difficile)'' is the name given to two oil-on-canvas paintings by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. The original version was completed in 1926 during Magritte's early prolific years of surrealism and is currently held in a private collection. A later version was completed in 1963 and is also held in a private collection.Gablik, Suzi, ''Magritte.'' Thames & Hudson, New York (2000). The 1926 version The 1926 version contains a number of curious elements, some of which are common to many of Magritte's works. The bilboquet or baluster (the object which looks like the bishop from a chess set) first appears in the painting '' The Lost Jockey'' (1926). In this and some other works—for example ''The Secret Player'' (1927) and ''The Art of Conversation'' (1961)—the bilboquet seems to play an inanimate role analogous to a tree or plant. In other instances, such as here with ''The Difficult Crossing,'' the bilboquet is given the anthropo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
