Marcelle Cahn, Otto Gustav Carlsund, Serge Charchoune, etc.
Ozenfant Amédée
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Bissiere Roger
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Le Corbusier
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Léger Fernand
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Charchoune Serge
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Gris Juan
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Herbin Auguste
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Purism focused on the representation of the objects of daily life. In the early 1920’s, Léger, LeCorbusier and Ozenfant developed a new style of painting. They presented the underlying theory in the review L’Esprit Nouveau, published between 1920 and 1925.
In 1918, Le Corbusier, together with Ozenfant, authored the book Après le Cubisme, which may be considered as the Purist manifesto. The movement was all about moderation and rigor in painting. Synthetic forms sharply delineated fitted into one another and composition was mostly frontal. The style verged on abstraction, especially with Ozenfant.
In order to produce an impression of flatness, of neutrality, color was applied on the canvas in flat surfaces with no visible brush strokes.
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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
