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Julio Gonzalez
"Matter-space-body and spirit. I want to build with the space that represents for me a real material. "
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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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Fatigué et éprouvé par la guerre la santé du peintre-sculpteur espagnol Julio González décline ; il meurt subitement le 27 mars 1942 à Arcueil où il repose dans le cimetière communal. Il avait 65 ans. Le jour de la mort de Julio, Marie Thérèse, épouse et modèle adoré, mendiait quelques pièces pour couvrir les frais des funérailles de son mari. Plusieurs de ses compatriotes confrères, dont Pablo Picasso - qui prit sur lui d'organiser ses obsèques -, Apelles Fenosa et Luis Fernandez, assistent à son enterrement. Picasso, très affecté, peindra presque aussitôt une série de sept toiles inspirées par la mort de son ami Julio González, des « Natures mortes à la tête de taureau ». Ces toiles, de l'aveu même de Picasso, répondent à ce deuil. En son hommage, avec respect, cette violette.
"Il faut détruire la prétendue noblesse, toute littéraire et traditionnelle, du marbre et du bronze, et nier carrément que l’on doive se servir exclusivement d’une seule matière pour un ensemble sculptural. Le sculpteur peut se servir de vingt matières différentes, ou davantage dans une seule œuvre, pourvu que l’émotion plastique l’exige." - Umberto Boccioni (1912)
"L'art pouvait naitre de l'acier, d'un matériau et de machines qui n'avaient signifié auparavant que labeur et pouvoir financier. " - Julio Gonzalez
"Julio Gonzalez travaille le métal comme une motte de beurre." - Picasso
"Chez Julio Gonzales, l'invention ne perd à aucun moment en intensité et l'artiste ne cède jamais à la tentation de la virtuosité, ne gardant que l'essentiel expressif. " - Philippe Dagen
"Julio Gonzales est le continuateur, l'inventeur d'une sculpture abstraite sur fer et en même temps très proche de la réalité." - Jorge Semprun
"Maintenant je sais où je vais, tout est clair pour moi." - Julio Gonzalez (ses derniers mots selon sa fille)
Notes of biography
Emblematic figure of the artistic creation of the first half of the twentieth century and father of the iron sculpture, Julio Gonzalez has had a considerable influence on contemporary sculpture. He is born in Barcelona in 1876 into a family of goldsmiths and blacksmith art. He apprentices in the family workshop (1891-1898). The young man exhibits decorative art objects and jewelry in different salons. Parallel to his craft, he enjoys painting and drawing, taking evening classes at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona with his older brother Joan. Both boys meet many Catalan artists.
In 1899, Julio Gonzalez and his family move to Paris in the Montparnasse district. He meets Picasso, and is first attracted by painting. He befriends Manolo Hugué, Torres-Garcia and Paco Durrio and produces his first works in copper. His meeting with the Spanish sculptor Pablo Gargallo has a huge influence on the result of his artistic career. At Renault, Boulogne-Billancourt, he acquires the technique of acetylene welding, a process that play a determinate role in his creation.
Julio Gonzalez exhibits paintings at the Salon of Independents in 1907 and 1908, but with the death of his brother Juan (1908), he stops working for several months and falls into a deep depression, now only keeping contact with Picasso and Constantin Brancusi. Julio González therefore abandons gradually the painting, focusing on his forging work and metal sculptures.
The art of Julio González peaks in the 30s with large iron sculptures with unusual shapes, stylized, as in constant equilibrium in space ("Woman combing her hair", "The Giraffe", or "The Angel”, "The Insect", "The Dancer" , etc.). Vertical, air, these works are from the linear concept of "drawing in space", developed by Gonzalez during his collaboration with Picasso between 1928 and 1932 (under whose influence, Gonzalez turns increasingly toward abstraction). They precede a cycle of full round heads, some in bronze, inspired by medieval sculpture.
Julio Gonzalez dies in 1942 in Arcueil, near Paris. He has a great influence, as the post-war, on a generation of sculptors, who endorses his legacy and assumes the modernity of a work free of the stylistic boundaries between cubism and surrealism, figuration and abstraction. Developing an original work, Julio González has introduced materials and techniques once reserved for the mere production of utilitarian objects in the field of fine arts, having a decisive influence on the sculptors of iron in the second half of the twentieth century (Chillida, Tinguely, César, etc.).
Artists on display
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)
* « Les dessins », Josette Gibert, Bernard Dorival, 9 volumes thématiques, Ed. Carmen Martinez, Paris, 1975
* « Sculpture », Jörn Merkert, Ed. Electa, Milan, 1987
* « Julio Gonzalez : Complete Works Volume I », Tomàs Llorens, Ed. Poligrafa, 2012
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Julio Gonzalez, Mon père », Roberta Gonzalez, Ed. Galerie de France, 1959
- « Julio Gonzalez », Vicente Aguilera Cerni, Ed. dell’Ateneo, Rome, 1962
- « Julio Gonzalez », Pierre Descargues, Ed. Le Musée de Poche, Paris, 1971
- « Gonzalez : Itinerario de una Dinastia », V. Aguilera Cerni, Ed. Poligrafa, 197
- « Julio Gonzalez : Sculpture & Drawings », R. E. Krauss, Ed. Pace Gallery, 1981
- « J. G.: 1876-1942 : Plastiken, Zeich ….. », cat., Ed. Akademie der Kunste, 1983
- « Gonzalez-Picasso dialogue », collectif, Ed. R. M. N., Paris, 1999
- « Julio Gonzalez : A retrospective exhibition », cat., Ed. Art Focus-Dickinson, 2002
- « J. G. - collection de l'IVAM », cat. Fond. Vierny - Musée Maillol, Ed. Hazan, 2004
- « J. Gonzalez - Coll. du MNAM », collectif, Ed. C. G. Pompidou, Paris, 2007
To read from the artist :
- « H. Hartung dialogue avec J. G. », C. Stoullig, Ed. C. Pompidou, Paris, 1991
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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 Julio Gonzalez
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Fatigué et éprouvé par la guerre la santé du peintre-sculpteur espagnol Julio González décline ; il meurt subitement le 27 mars 1942 à Arcueil où il repose dans le cimetière communal. Il avait 65 ans. Le jour de la mort de Julio, Marie Thérèse, épouse et modèle adoré, mendiait quelques pièces pour couvrir les frais des funérailles de son mari. Plusieurs de ses compatriotes confrères, dont Pablo Picasso - qui prit sur lui d'organiser ses obsèques -, Apelles Fenosa et Luis Fernandez, assistent à son enterrement. Picasso, très affecté, peindra presque aussitôt une série de sept toiles inspirées par la mort de son ami Julio González, des « Natures mortes à la tête de taureau ». Ces toiles, de l'aveu même de Picasso, répondent à ce deuil. En son hommage, avec respect, cette violette.
"Il faut détruire la prétendue noblesse, toute littéraire et traditionnelle, du marbre et du bronze, et nier carrément que l’on doive se servir exclusivement d’une seule matière pour un ensemble sculptural. Le sculpteur peut se servir de vingt matières différentes, ou davantage dans une seule œuvre, pourvu que l’émotion plastique l’exige." - Umberto Boccioni (1912)
"L'art pouvait naitre de l'acier, d'un matériau et de machines qui n'avaient signifié auparavant que labeur et pouvoir financier. " - Julio Gonzalez
"Julio Gonzalez travaille le métal comme une motte de beurre." - Picasso
"Chez Julio Gonzales, l'invention ne perd à aucun moment en intensité et l'artiste ne cède jamais à la tentation de la virtuosité, ne gardant que l'essentiel expressif. " - Philippe Dagen
"Julio Gonzales est le continuateur, l'inventeur d'une sculpture abstraite sur fer et en même temps très proche de la réalité." - Jorge Semprun
"Maintenant je sais où je vais, tout est clair pour moi." - Julio Gonzalez (ses derniers mots selon sa fille)
Art movements
+ SURREALISM / 1924-1969 / Marcel Duchamp, Dora Maar, Kurt Schwitters, Taro Okamoto, Antonio Berni, etc.
+ MODERN SCULPTURE / 1930-1970 / William Kenneth Armiage, Constantin Brancusi, Anthony Caro, Naum Gabo, Pablo Gargallo, Isamu Noguchi, etc.
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