Camille Claudel Charles, Victoria
2020, 2020-12-30, 2018-04-11
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Fascinated from a young age by crafting models with her hands, French sculptor, painter, and draughtswoman Camille Claudel (1864-1943) fought to overcome the hurdles placed in the way of female ...artists and carved a place for herself in the history of art. Following an apprenticeship with Alfred Boucher, Claudel entered the studio of Auguste Rodin, with whom she had a tumultuous ten-year love affair which often threatens to eclipse her art. The two artists had a profound impact on one another, each of their features appearing in the other's work. After breaking off the relationship to forge her own path, Claudel created a stunning, incredibly modern oeuvre of works. Though many were destroyed by her own hands, those that remain are a powerful testament to her artistic genius.
In praise of hands Focilon, Henri; Charles, Victoria
2018., 2018, 2020, 2020-12-30
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To speak about art is to evoke the hand of the creator who produced the work. It is to confer to its gestures the importance of thoughts and to explore their point of convergence on the canvas or the ...stone. With this text, Henri Focillon delivers one of the most beautiful odes to the hand and, simultaneously, to the talent of artists, studying Hokusai, Cézanne, and even Rodin. What do artists such as Rembrandt, David, Gauguin, and Hokusai have in common? A virtuosity of the hand, replies Henri Focillon. The viewer often forgets that behind the works, it is first and foremost a hand and its fingers which guide the paintbrush, the pen, or the stylus. Focillon’s text recalls the importance of this part of the body, in which the artist’s talent comes to life. Within his text, he grants the hand the recognition that it deserves.
In utter contrast to the obscurity of the medieval period which preceded it, the rapid and unexpected arrival of the Renaissance conquered Europe during the 14th to the 16th centuries. Placing man at ...its centre, the actors of this illustrious movement radically altered their vision of the world and refocused their aesthetic pursuits towards anatomy, perspective, and the natural sciences. Creator of numerous talents, the Renaissance offered the history of art great names such as Botticelli, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci, whose glorious masterpieces still today hang on the walls of museums the world over.
Issue de la révolution industrielle, l'usine a longtemps été considérée comme un « monstre » de fer, soumettant l'être humain au collectif dans un acte de déshumanisation à la chaîne au profit de ...l'objet. Détournée aujourd'hui de son côté purement fonctionnel, pour lequel elle avait été construite, au profit de son esthétisme, l'usine est parfois revisitée en loft moderne ou en musée d'art contemporain. Les photographies inédites et surprenantes de cet ouvrage nous font redécouvrir les volumes, la pureté des lignes, la beauté et l'architecture, étonnamment moderne, de ces monuments aux clavicules d'acier.
Symbole de promiscuité et de désirs solitaires, la ville est une promesse pour tous ceux qui s'y promènent. Ses rues alambiquées, ses quartiers anonymes et ses bruits incessants sont autant de ...paysages qui attirent l'innocent. Ses lumières qui la voilent, la fardent et la dévoilent, la transforment d'heure en heure, offrant au passant mille et un visages.Si les lumières matinales tirent la ville de sa torpeur et l'offrent virginale au jour naissant, ses éclairages nocturnes plongent à nouveau le chaland dans l'étrangeté de ses mystères, dont la beauté est tant visuelle qu'éphémère.Entre l'ombre et la lumière, les photographies inédites de ce très bel ouvrage dévoilent l'arborescence fragile des lumières citadines et nous font redécouvrir l'éternité de ces grandes capitales, aussi sublimes qu'étonnantes.
