ART 4
2-DAY 13 June
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Born on 13 June 1877: Joseph
Stella, Italian-born futurist
US painter and collagist who died on 05 November 1946. — Not to be
confused with Frank Stella [12
May 1936~] Born at Muro Lucano, near Naples, Stella emigrated to the US in 1902 and studied art at the Art Students' League, NY and the New York School of Art. He spent the years 1909-1912 in Italy where he was in contact with leading Futurists. He exhibited at the Armory Show and became, with Max Weber, the US's leading Futurist. — He arrived in New York in 1896. The following year he enrolled briefly in the Art Students League and then in the New York School of Art (1898), where his ability was recognized by William Merritt Chase. The Lower East Side subject-matter of Stella’s early work was similar to that of his contemporaries of the New York Ashcan school. In place of their dark-toned Impressionism, however, Stella’s early style was academic in the manner of late 19th-century Italian painting. His first important commission was to depict the industrial workers in Pittsburgh for Survey, a social reform journal. LINKS — Self-portrait (1940; 394x333pix, 32kb) _ In contrast with Stella's abstract paintings, this self-portrait reflects on the conflicts and contradictions of Stella's artistic and personal development. Not known as an introspective person, Stella studied his own image more intensely as he grew older and more reclusive. While his earlier self-portraits suggest an artist using himself as a model, the later images reveal his state of mind and declining physical state. Color and form add intensity to the pose, a far cry from the classical Renaissance profiles he admired. Touches of red on the lips, eyelid, nose, and cheek are unsettling. The turbulent pattern and acrid yellow highlights in the background reinforce the sense of anxiety, suggesting a malevolent alter ego that hovers nearby. Yet the concentration of his gaze, the flare of his nostril, and the set of his lips convey the spirit of a headstrong individual who persists despite emotional turmoil. Old Brooklyn Bridge (1941, 194x174cm; 868x785pix, 159kb _ ZOOM to 1479x1339pix, 361kb) _ New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, completed in 1883 and hailed as an engineering marvel, spans the East River between Brooklyn and Manhattan. When Stella emigrated from Italy to Brooklyn in 1916, the borough’s most famous landmark became a recurrent image in his work—a symbol of the dynamism and promise of the modern US city. Here, Stella shows the bridge at night: cables soar overhead, traffic signals and headlights flash through the darkness, and the bridge’s Gothic arches rise in the background like those of a skyscraper or a church. The bridge, to Stella, was a “shrine containing all the efforts of the new civilization of AMERICA.” — The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme _ another image of same (1939, 178x107cm) _ Stella first saw the Brooklyn Bridge when he arrived in New York from a small town in southern Italy. He was struck by the dazzling industry of the city. But life in New York as a recent immigrant was also a struggle. Many nights, Stella sought refuge on the vast expanse of the bridge's walkway where, he said, "I felt deeply moved, as if on the threshold of a new religion." The Brooklyn Bridge was really a ground-breaking suspension bridge. It was designed by John Roebling, the civil engineer, who wanted to connect Brooklyn and New York, which were then separate cities across the East River. Stella's perspective is essentially the impression you get as you walk along the bridge. The cables that dominate this picture are the suspension cables. The elevated walkway is cradled in these cables, so you're caught in this net of cables and wires and it's really a very spectacular setting. The Brooklyn Bridge walkway provides one of the classic walks in the world. To walk across the bridge and to approach Manhattan at a walking pace is something that is hard to reproduce anywhere else. It gives you ample time to reflect upon the magnitude of the city, the achievements of the engineers and architects who made the city what it is. The ever-changing nature of the city. The people walking on the walkway coming towards you, walking with you,also remind you of the real diversity of the city. It's just a spectacular, spectacular experience. — City Buildings, New York (1917) — Battle of Lights, Coney Island (1914, 99x75cm) — Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras (1914, 193x216cm; 600x657pix, 186kb) Cactus and Tropical Foliage (1922, 46x61cm; 604x800pix, 82kb _ ZOOM to 1243x1647pix, 246kb) — Flowers, Italy (1931) _ Although Stella is well-known for working in the style of the Italian Futurists, and his early renditions of sites in and around New York City are regarded as the most important US paintings indebted to this art movement, it is the delicate floral works, mainly in pastel, crayon and silverpoint, which most collectors treasure. It seems hard to believe that these finely wrought drawings were done by the same artist who produced the bold and meaty works celebrating the bridges and tunnels of New York. Yet today they are among the most beautiful and tender drawings of flowers and birds ever to be produced by a US artist. It is difficult to find any trace of his having studied under William Merritt Chase, yet in his search for beauty there is a link to the work of this master. Stella, like Chase, exalted the beautiful. This painting is a lush, exotic abstraction with strong contrasts in form and color and a dynamic use of the arabesque. The formal composition is divided in half vertically, with each side balancing the other in color and size of elements (minor details vary, with a central receding focal point). — Flowers (1935, 33x44cm; 476x640pix, 56kb) Three Miners (1938, 67x47cm; 1138x800pix, 188kb _ ZOOM to 1705x1199pix, 356kb) Roots, the Bronx (1940, 48x64cm; 601x800pix, 161kb _ ZOOM to 1239x1651pix, 572kb and admire the texture of the canvas) — Tree of Nice (800x645pix, 104kb) _ From this the pseudonymous José Lestoiles has abstracted the amazing _ Three Trees, Nice But No Ice (2006; screen filling, 170kb _ ZOOM to 932x1318pix, 354kb). — Telegraph Pole (1917; 800x641pix, 89kb) — Dog on a Balcony, Paris (800xpix, 77kb) — In the Jungle (1940; 480x346pix, 41kb) — Purissima (1927, 193x145cm) — Still Life With Apple (x799pix, 108kb) — Abstraction Mardi Gras (1914, 21x29cm) _ The pseudonymous Giuseppe Galaxia has exploded this into the magnificently detailed and colorful quadruplets _ Soustraction Mercredi Descendre (2007; 775x1096pix, 205kb _ ZOOM to 1096x1550pix, 376kb _ ZOOM+ to 1700x2404pix, 845kb _ ZOOM++ to 2636x3728pix, 1680kb) _ Addition Vendre Dessins (2007; 775x1096pix, 205kb _ ZOOM to 1096x1550pix, 376kb _ ZOOM+ to 1700x2404pix, 845kb _ ZOOM++ to 2636x3728pix, 1680kb) _ Multiplication Dimanche Opaque (2007; 775x1096pix, 252kb _ ZOOM to 1096x1550pix, 466kb _ ZOOM+ to 1700x2404pix, 1048kb _ ZOOM++ to 2636x3728pix, 2100kb) _ Division Pente Côte (2007; 775x1096pix, 252kb _ ZOOM to 1096x1550pix, 466kb _ ZOOM+ to 1700x2404pix, 1048kb _ ZOOM++ to 2636x3728pix, 2100kb) —(070612) |
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on 13 June 1947: Albert Marquet, French Fauvist
painter born on 27 March 1875. {Il y avait un peintre du nom de Marquet / qu'à Paris on voyait par rues et par quais. / Il était souvent recherché par le Parquet. / Mais alors pour outremer il s'embarquait, / et personne ne le remarquait.} Albert Marquet's father worked on the railroads and his mother encouraged and supported his early artistic endeavors. He joined Gustave Moreau's studio like the other Fauves at the École des Beaux-Arts. He painted the French urban landscapes extensively. He uses color to enhance or mute the effects of sunlight in his work. One such painting is Quai du Louvre et Le Pont-Neuf a Paris in which he used contrasting light and dark shapes to depict sunlight. Marquet preferred to live a secluded life with his wife, Marcelle Matinet whom he married in 1923. He loved to travel throughout Europe and Northern Africa. Marquet painted with Dufy along beaches in Normandy and Le Havre. Despite his penchant for painting landscapes, many would attest to Marquet's talent for portraiture which was often compared to that of Van Gogh's and Toulouse-Lautrec. Marquet nació en Burdeos. En 1890, con el apoyo de su madre, va a París a estudiar a la Escuela Nacional de Artes Decorativas, donde conoce a Matisse, con quien entabla una gran amistad. En 1894 ambos entran en la Escuela de Bellas Artes y estudian bajo la dirección de Moreau. Entre 1894 y 1904 va al Museo del Louvre y hace copias de los grandes maestros (Chardin, Poussin, Veronés y Claude Lorraine). En estos años su círculo de amigos son Matisse, Mangin y Camoin. En 1898, de nuevo con Matisse, entran en la escuela de Eugène Carrière, donde conocen a Derain. En 1901 participa con diez cuadros en el Salón de los Independientes; son paisajes de Arcueil y Luxemburgo. En 1905 participa en el Salón de Otoño en la primera exposición del grupo fauvista y al año siguiente empieza a trabajar con la galería Berheim Jeune. En 1912 va por primera vez a Tánger con Matisse y Camoin, y luego viajará al norte de África, sobre todo a Argelia, repetidamente a lo largo de su vida. En 1925 hace una importante exposición en la galería Berheim Jeune con paisajes pintados en Marsella. Durante toda su vida viajó constantemente por Europa y el Norte de Africa y abandonó el estilo fauvista. Sus cuadros más conocidos tienen por tema los puentes de París. Muere en La Frette. LINKS — Fête populaire au Hâvre (1906; 600x757pix _ ZOOM to 1400x1767pix) — Le Hâvre (1906; 600x483pix _ ZOOM to 1400x1127pix) — Istanboul (1933; 600x483pix _ ZOOM to 1400x1127pix) — Vue d'un balcon (1945; 700x535pix, 241kb) — Vue de la Seine et du Monument à Henri IV (1906, 65x81cm; 575x719pix, 218kb) Le Port de Hambourg (1909, 66x80cm) Jour de Pluie à Paris (Nôtre-Dame) (1910) Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris (1905) Le Quai Conté, Paris (1947) — Landscape with a Bridge (1919, 24x33cm; 575x790pix, 233kb) _ In 1914, Albert Marquet went to the south, working in Collioure (1914), Marseilles and Nice (1915), and L'Estaque (1916-1918). However, Landscape with a Bridge was not painted in the south, but in the Île de France. In this picture, the light particular to that region is conveyed with rare simplicity and expressiveness. The subject of this painting and the treatment of the trees and the sky link it to several landscapes painted in Samois (1917) and Herblay (1919). — Harbor at Menton (1905, 65x82cm) — Place de la Trinité, Paris (1911, 81x65cm) — View of Saint-Jean-de-Luz (1907, 60x81cm) — Milliners (1901, 50x61cm) — Avenue in the Luxembourg Gardens (1901, 25x35cm) _ Albert Marquet painted in the Luxembourg Gardens as early as 1898. In all the pictures painted there, his love of open space is manifest. The artist shows a wide square before the palace, a path running off. Marquet focuses his attention on details: it is remarkable how he discriminates among various shades of green in the foliage while the sun is only just rising over the horizon. |
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Born on 13 June 1908: Maria
Elena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese French painter, engraver,
stained glass and mosaic artist, who died on 06 March 1992. She painted
intricate, semiabstract architectural compositions. She married Hungarian
painter Arpad Szenes [189716 Jan 1985] in 1930. — {Vieira
viellira} |
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Died on 13 June (July?) 1931: Santiago Rusiñol i Prats,
Catalan painter and writer born on 25 February 1861. — Santiago Rusiñol i Prats nasqué a Barcelona el 25 de febrer del 1861 a la casa número 37 del carrer de la Princesa i va morir a Aranjuez vora els jardins reials que tant havia pintat, el dia 13 de juliol de 1931. — He studied under Tomás Moragas [1837–1906] and exhibited as early as 1878, when he was still working in a conventional realist style. He went to Paris in 1889 with Miguel Utrillo [1862–1934] and other artists. There he and his close friend Ramón Casas, who lived with him in the Moulin de la Galette, began to paint suburban views of Paris, mainly of Montmartre, and interior scenes with figures. The pictures of Paris that they exhibited in Barcelona in 1890 and 1891 opened Catalan art to a new wave of Impressionism influenced by Edgar Degas and James Abbot McNeill Whistler, a form of modernism that was symptomatic of the cultural renewal in Catalonia, and of which Rusiñol, not only a painter but also an active intellectual, was the undisputed leader. In the small seaside town of Sitges, near Barcelona, he created an important cultural center closely bound to other European developments. Reference to Botticelli and the Pre-Raphaelites can be detected in the Symbolist style which he adopted in his three large canvases, Music, Painting, and Poetry (1894). — Santiago Rusiñol encarna la personalitat més complexa de tots els artistes catalans de la segona meitat del segle XIX i començament del segle XX. Ell és, sens dubte, l'artista total, sempre present a les iniciatives artístiques importants d'aquell període. Fou membre fundador del grup renovador Els Quatre Gats. També fundà, a Sitges, el Cau Ferrat, un taller-museu que fou l'escenari de les famoses Festes Modernistes, en les quals s'aplegaven els joves artistes, escriptors i músics de l'època. Com a pintor, i malgrat l'oposició familiar aferrissada que el volia apartar del camí de l'art (fins als vint-i-cinc anys hagué de treballar a la filatura familiar), va ser alumne del pintor gironí Tomàs Moragas, fundador del Centre d'Aquarellistes i de l'Acadèmia de Dibuix i Pintura de Barcelona. De ben jove se sentí particularment atret pel naturalisme plàcid de Joaquim Vayreda. El 1889 s'establí a Montmartre, a París, i esdevingué amic inseparable de Ramon Casas. Visqué una bohèmia daurada a la capital francesa amb Ramon Casas, Utrillo i amb l'escultor Enric Clarasó, nascut a Sant Feliu del Racó, i tots tres introduïren a Catalunya un art nou, inspirat en l'impressionisme d'Edgar Degas i que a causa de la seva modernitat va ser designat per la crítica d'aleshores, encapçalada per Raimon Casellas, amb el nom de modernisme. Les figures, les coses quotidianes i el paisatge urbà del barri parisenc on residien eren els seus temes habituals. Cap a l'any 1894, la pintura de Santiago Rusiñol derivà vers el simbolisme, molt especialment en la temàtica dels jardins, especialment d'Andalusia, Castella i Catalunya, que li donaren tanta fama i èxits, amb obres plenes de poesia, riquesa d'acolorit i lluminositat. Morí pintant els jardins d'Aranjuez el 1931. Té obres en tots els museus importants del món. Es dedicà, amb molta intensitat també, a l'obra literària i destacà enormement com a comediògraf amb abundor d'obres teatrals de gran difusió i lluïment. –- Ramon Casas a Paris (165x96cm; 802x463pix, 46kb) –- S. Rusiñol i R. Casas retratant-se (1890; 650x800pix, 29kb) –- La font (114x76cm; 802x520, 56kb) –- Montserrat (339x400pix, 25kb) –- La noia de la clavellina (1894; 820x375pix, 23kb) |
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1875 (13 July?) Arthur Segal, Romanian painter, printmaker,
sculptor, and teacher, who died on 23 June 1944 in London. {Is it true
that a visitor at an art gallery pointed out a stormy beach scene to his daughter
and mistakenly said: See, gal, a Segal seagull in a sea gale.?}

In 1826 Magnus moved to Stockholm, and, in 1828, he and Wilhelm began publishing
Svenska Foglar, the series of bird illustrations that rapidly established
the brothers’ reputation in Finland and Sweden. The work, completed in 1838, consists
of 180 hand-tinted lithographs. Similarly they did the 500 or so handcolored lithographs
of Skandinaviens Fiskar (1834-1857). Magnus also painted landscapes.
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