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Charles Lapicque, etc.
Esteve Maurice
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Leppien Jean
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Poliakoff Serge
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Singier Gustave
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Manessier Alfred
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Bazaine Jean
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Thépot François
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In 1941, painter Charles Lapicque organized an exhibit, exposition-manifeste, under the heading “Twenty young painters in the French tradition.” Those artists shared a desire to express their own personal emotions in the face of the reality of their lives. During the 1940’s, Bazaine called his art “nonfigurative”, in an effort to move away from “abstract” art. This group was claiming its independence from American art and any form of abstraction.
In 1948, in “Notes on Present-Day Painting”, Bazaine presented an analysis of what separated these nonfigurative artists from abstract painters. This is his description of nonfigurative art: “Painting the nature of things involves the presence of a living and moving duration on the canvas.” This definition goes counter to abstract art, which rejects all influences coming from the external world.
This group of painters realized their works after carefully thinking them out and constructing them and then meticulously drawing them. The paintings have lost all figurative quality to become a true expression of mere space. Painted surfaces are sharply outlined in a style reminiscent of Cubism, Fauvism, and abstraction.
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Others movements :
ITALIAN NOVECENTO -
RAYONNISM -
NEW FIGURATION -
Index chosen on the movements, important currents and events in the XX 2nd century art
I wanted to give here, with 46 various short introductions, some general elements on the movements or currents of art, groups or exhibitions, which concern the artists whose works are presented in gallery or were it recently. The table, above, will make it possible to visually locate the periods or dates in time.
Each entry is followed of a list of the principal artists belonging to the movement or current. It may be that there is only one simple relationship between such or such artist and the movement in which in theory one locates it (Click on the names in blue to reveal work or works currently in stock).
It will be understood, some movements are represented much than of others in my gallery. The same artist will be often found in several movements (as each one knows it, it was thus).
Although these some introductions, briefly developed, are not addressed to the specialists, they will forgive me the few lapses of memory or choices which would lend to discussion. I hope that these tiny introductions will be however useful to some of you. Michelle Champetier
