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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] |
René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art. Early life René Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, in 1898. He was the oldest son of Léopold Magritte, a tailor and textile merchant,Meuris 1991, p 216. and Régina (née Bertinchamps), who was a milliner before she got married. Little is known about Magritte's early life. He began lessons in drawing in 1910. On 24 February 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Sambre at Châtelet. It was not her first suicide attempt. Her body was not discovered until 12 March.Abadie 2003, p. 274. According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. His work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis in 1933, and in 1937 more than 600 of his works were sold or destroyed."Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: German, 1880–1938" . |
Self-portrait In A Velvet Dress
''Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress'' ( es, Autorretrato con traje de terciopelo or es, Autorretrato con vestido de terciopelo) is a 1926 oil-on-canvas painting by Mexico, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Background At the age of 18, Kahlo suffered life-threatening injuries (from which she would never fully recover and would lead to lifelong physical pain) when the train she was riding hit a trolley. During her extended period of convalescence, her parents gave her an easel and painting supplies as well as affixed a mirror to the ceiling above her bed so that she could see herself while lying on her back. It was during this recovery period that Kahlo painted ''Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress''. The picture is considered if not Kahlo's first self-portrait then at least her first significant self-portrait. It is her oldest surviving self-portrait and has been described as her, "earliest important work" and, "her first serious work". It has also been described as, "her first real paint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
