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Albert Gleizes
"Art has always been the plastic coating in a spiritual form."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Albert Gleizes s’éteint le 23 Juin 1953 à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Il est inhumé à Serrières (Ardéche) dans le monument funéraire de sa belle famille (Roche) ; l’accompagne, entres autres, sa femme Juliette et de deux membres importants de la communauté d'artistes-artisans « Moly-Sabata », fondée à la fin des années 30 par l’artiste. Le cimetière est adossé à une colline dont la vue plonge sur la vallée du Rhône. En son hommage, nous déposons une rose blanche.
"Tout d'abord, il convient d'admettre que tout de ce qu'on aperçoit séparé est foncièrement uni. Musique, peinture, sculpture, sont des modes d'une unique direction d'esprit." - Albert Gleizes
"Moly Sabata. L'artiste n'est plus séparé des autres hommes, il s'intègre au contraire dans une communauté où son action est aussi nécessaire que celle de ses compagnons de route. " - René Deroudille
"La passion pour l'exercice d'un métier que l'on aime est probablement le point central de Moly-Sabata." - André Dubois
"L'espace et le rythme pouvant nous être perceptibles par l'étendue et le mouvement, la première action déterminante d'ordre plastique sera de mettre en mouvement l'étendue brute que nous possédons : la surface plane." - Albert Gleizes et Jean Metzinger (« Du Cubisme »)
"Mon effort de peintre a depuis plus de trente ans porté sur ce travail de réfection de l'homme : ma peinture comme moyen expérimental de moi-même." - Albert Gleizes
"Mon art, je l'ai voulu métier, simple, direct, pareil à celui des artisans avec lesquels au XVIII° siècle les intellectuels de la profession, les artistes avaient coupé toute relation." - Albert Gleizes
Notes of biography
Albert Gleizes was born in Paris in 1881. In all his work, he conserves the rigorous traces of his apprenticeship from his father, a technical designer.
From 1900, he actively participates in the Parisian artistic life. Albert Gleizes shows his work in collective exhibitions, participates in the creation of new Salons (Automne, Tuileries). After practicing painting inspired by the impressionists, he is one of the first to united efforts under the cubist banner. He meets Paul Fort, Emile Verhaeren and Apollinaire.
In 1911, along with Robert Delaunay, Le Fauconnier, Léger, and Metzinger, he appears in the Salon des Artists Indépendant in Room 41, which is dedicated to the Cubist movement. There the artist rouses his part of the scandalous movement. Gleizes - with Jacques Villon, La Fresnaye, Metzinger - participate in the group of Puteaux activities, as well as at the Salon de la Section d’Or. The canvas that he exhibits at the Armory Show of New York in 1913 stirs up a loud reaction from the public.
After a synthetic phase, then analytical, he takes an interest in the advantage of the composition as well as the dynamism of form. His spirit of clarity and his culture are worthy of numerous literary friendships, Albert Gleizes was one of the cofounders of the Créteil Abbey (Georges Duhamel, Vildrac).
Summoned to fight shortly after the start of the First World War, Gleizes leaves for the United States in 1915. It is around these years in America that Gleizes finds or recovers his faith, which will add a definitive religious impetus in his work. He returns to France at the end of the war and turns towards non-figurative painting. In 1927, he creates in the town of Sablons, in the French Alps, the Moly-Sabata communities, religious, artistic and crafts communities.
In 1931, Gleizes adheres to the Abstraction-Creation movement. He sees in abstraction the dematerialisation of the thoughts in the research of pure spirituality. He produces several mural paintings, illustrates some works; Gleizes, at the end of his life, engraves etchings. Albert Gleizes will be one of the only artist not to let go of cubism; he was equally one of the most fecund and clear theorists (“Du Cubisme” with Metzinger in 1912, “La peinture et ses lois” in 1919). Gleizes will see in Robert Delaunay his ‘heir’. Albert Gleizes will retire in 1939 to Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where he will continue to work surrounded by his disciples, in a climate of mystical community.
Albert Gleizes died in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France in 1953.
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The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« L'oeuvre gravé », J. Loyer, Somogy Ed. Nouvelles de l'Estampe, 1976
*« Albert Gleizes », 2 Vol., A. Varichon/Fondation Albert Gleizes, Somogy Ed. d’Art, 1998
*« L'oeuvre complet », A. Varichon, Ed. Somogy, 2006
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Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Albert Gleizes 1881-1953», cat., Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix en Provence, 1960
- « Albert Gleizes, rétrospective », MNAM, Paris, 1964
- « Albert Gleizes 1881-1953: Retros. », cat., Galerie d'Art Moderne, Bâle, 1969
- « A. G. et le dessin », cat., Ed. M. d'art et d'industrie de Saint Etienne, 1970
- « Albert Gleizes », Fondation nationale des arts graphiques, Paris 1982
- « Rétrospective Albert Gleizes », cat., Ed. Fond. Lourmarin, Robert Laurent-Vibert, 1989
- « Gleizes, biographie », Pierre Alibert, Michèle Heyraud, Paris, 1990
- « Albert Gleizes (1881-1953) », Michel Massenet, Ed. Somogy, 1999
- « Albert Gleizes, For and against the 20th Century », P. Brook, Yale P. U. 2001
- « Albert Gleizes Cubism in majesty », coll., Ed. Reunion des musées nationaux, 2001
To read from the artist :
- « Du cubisme », avec J. Metzinger, Figuière, Paris, 1912
- « La signification humaine du cubisme », causerie, Petit Palais, Ed. Moly-Sabata, 1938
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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A tribute to Albert Gleizes
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Albert Gleizes s’éteint le 23 Juin 1953 à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Il est inhumé à Serrières (Ardéche) dans le monument funéraire de sa belle famille (Roche) ; l’accompagne, entres autres, sa femme Juliette et de deux membres importants de la communauté d'artistes-artisans « Moly-Sabata », fondée à la fin des années 30 par l’artiste. Le cimetière est adossé à une colline dont la vue plonge sur la vallée du Rhône. En son hommage, nous déposons une rose blanche.
"Tout d'abord, il convient d'admettre que tout de ce qu'on aperçoit séparé est foncièrement uni. Musique, peinture, sculpture, sont des modes d'une unique direction d'esprit." - Albert Gleizes
"Moly Sabata. L'artiste n'est plus séparé des autres hommes, il s'intègre au contraire dans une communauté où son action est aussi nécessaire que celle de ses compagnons de route. " - René Deroudille
"La passion pour l'exercice d'un métier que l'on aime est probablement le point central de Moly-Sabata." - André Dubois
"L'espace et le rythme pouvant nous être perceptibles par l'étendue et le mouvement, la première action déterminante d'ordre plastique sera de mettre en mouvement l'étendue brute que nous possédons : la surface plane." - Albert Gleizes et Jean Metzinger (« Du Cubisme »)
"Mon effort de peintre a depuis plus de trente ans porté sur ce travail de réfection de l'homme : ma peinture comme moyen expérimental de moi-même." - Albert Gleizes
"Mon art, je l'ai voulu métier, simple, direct, pareil à celui des artisans avec lesquels au XVIII° siècle les intellectuels de la profession, les artistes avaient coupé toute relation." - Albert Gleizes
Art movements
+ ARMORY SHOW / 1913 / Constantin Brancusi, Charles Camoin, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, etc.
+ ABSTRACTION-CREATION / 1931-1938 / Etienne Béothy, Frantisek Kupka, Piet Mondrian, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Vantongerloo, etc.
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