Gilles Neret. Tamara de Lempicka
"She wears gloves and a helmet is unapproachable: a cool, disturbing beauty, behind which a fantastic being sensed - this woman is free "!
Tamara de Lempicka's cool, and always a little opulent condescending-eyed Models, ghostly inhabitants of a bygone era arouse conflicting emotions in me: with their bulky bodies and insane proportions they repel me. The elegance of their poses and the shameless self-assurance with which they deliver to the painter and thereby - deliberately or not - seem to reveal the essence of their personality pull at me again. An extremely ambivalent, then, viewing and dealing with Lempicka's art.
From reading the book I had promised me two things. First, I wanted to learn about the artist: Who was she? How, when and where they lived? Second, I was curious about the concept behind the pictures, because the knowledge of the unique concept behind the art to me in the past has really helped to discover the value and beauty hitherto misunderstood works (I think for example of Gauguin and the symbolism of color and harmony of the composition. Or Paul Klee with his childhood drawings and doodles).
Well, two points in my nearly 80 pages helped strong and richly illustrated book. To be fair, I must mention at this point that the art-theoretical part of the book takes up much less space than the biographical and also demanding - in the sense of requires prior knowledge and academic dry - is.
The Vita of Tamara Lempicka
about the biography of Tamara Lempicka is not much known, because - like Greta Garbo, which to Lempicka acquaintances had - knew the Polish-born, all to cover up unfavorable marks and leave only the PR-capable details visible to the public. To sum up:
born in 1898 as Tamara Gorska in Warsaw, the daughter of wealthy parents
1911 discovered Tamara travels to Italy, where her passionate love for art. This trip was possible thanks to Tamara's acting talent: Because they are bored at school, she feigned an illness before and was freed from school ( note to me: read on any case my daughter can ).
1914 Tamara spends the summer holidays with her aunt in Petrograd (now St Petersburg), where they know the luxurious life and learns to appreciate: "It is determined from then on set, the luxurious life for future [...] is itself no longer want to miss. " Here she met her first Love, the handsome lawyer Tadeusz Lempicki. This happy and quite well-chosen Alliance opens two years later in a marriage and bring a girl Kizette out.
located in the following years for the couple to Paris where Tamara takes art classes mainly at André Lhote . An ambitious goal, the Polish woman while firmly in mind: to make a living from selling their pictures and the highest possible standards. About the Gallery Colette Weill she sold her first paintings and obtain important contacts including the Société des Artistes Indépendants, an association of independent artists. This enables her to the much-beloved, chic and extravagant lifestyle: She travels abroad is increasing, from the best hotels, surrounded himself with artists and writers. At least since the first Art Deco exhibition which was held in 1925 in Paris, Lempicka is an artist of international reputation established:
" She was only interested in people who have called it the best: the aristocrats, the rich, the intellectual elite. Like all people who have talent, she had the feeling that they all offered to her, had earned, and gave her the freedom, only with people to circulate to help her or her ego could be beneficial in any way. "
private it is for the" beautiful Polish girl "under the less good:
" was in Tamara's life will henceforth be no more room for the poor Tadeusz, these "washcloth", this 'failure', that 'fool'. In 1928 she divorced, and to specify the break, Tamara is the portrait of him that they started and never finish .
But five years later the next Marriage: Raul Baron Kuffer Tamara makes a marriage proposal, she accepts the advice of her mother back. The Baron, one of the largest Landowners Austria-Hungary, is no stranger: he is one of its most important collectors and supporters.
1939, the couple immigrated to the U.S.. For Lempicka's artistic work, the move proves to be detrimental: Despite some Einzellaustellungen it is perceived less as a painter:
" The tabloids are now seeing even more of what happened to the painter, a baroness, but rumored now only . Eldere version of an artistically gifted Baroness, who incidentally has also made career as a painter "
your style will change to" Abstraction "- an artistic comeback wanted her to not succeed. Lempicka's new technology was able to convince anyone that would be their last in the 1962 New York gallery Iolas reception are held and reserved exhibition.
On 18 March 1980 Tamara de Lempicka died in her sleep. Kizette fulfilled her mother's last wish: from a rented helicopter she scattered the ashes of the artist in the crater of Popocatepetl - that volcano in Mexico, has never come fully to rest ...
The art of Tamara de Lempicka Tamara de Lempicka
style maps Nemet so-called "synthetic cubism" too. This is a corrected form of Cubism, as its inventor Andre blazed applies (see above). Synthetic Cubism attempted to "reconcile the iconography of living [...] with the Cubist avant-garde experiments of a Braque, Juan Gris or a Picasso."
short, in the eyes of the educated classes familiar with Cubism images acceptable to exclude dress up on the walls of homes right to disturb without (which is quite consistent with de Lempicka's commercial success). In addition, just let their female nudes - in Tamara de Lempicka a very common subject - the influence of neoclassicism back in vogue . Feel
If you want to know more, I recommend the chapter "The Art of the Caesars" :-) A bit of background knowledge and vocabulary you may want to bring already.
Conclusion: with anecdotes, juicy details from the Parisian artistic circles and sweeping descriptions of life on the legendary Rive provides Gauche the author of an appetite-stimulating insight into the Paris of the Roaring Twenties and makes you want more: more knowledge about these self-sufficient woman who loved art and high society at the same time. Not simply written, but worth the effort.
" She was only interested in people who have called it the best: the aristocrats, the rich, the intellectual elite. Like all people who have talent, she had the feeling that they all offered to her, had earned, and gave her the freedom, only with people to circulate to help her or her ego could be beneficial in any way. "
private it is for the" beautiful Polish girl "under the less good:
" was in Tamara's life will henceforth be no more room for the poor Tadeusz, these "washcloth", this 'failure', that 'fool'. In 1928 she divorced, and to specify the break, Tamara is the portrait of him that they started and never finish .
But five years later the next Marriage: Raul Baron Kuffer Tamara makes a marriage proposal, she accepts the advice of her mother back. The Baron, one of the largest Landowners Austria-Hungary, is no stranger: he is one of its most important collectors and supporters.
1939, the couple immigrated to the U.S.. For Lempicka's artistic work, the move proves to be detrimental: Despite some Einzellaustellungen it is perceived less as a painter:
" The tabloids are now seeing even more of what happened to the painter, a baroness, but rumored now only . Eldere version of an artistically gifted Baroness, who incidentally has also made career as a painter "
your style will change to" Abstraction "- an artistic comeback wanted her to not succeed. Lempicka's new technology was able to convince anyone that would be their last in the 1962 New York gallery Iolas reception are held and reserved exhibition.
On 18 March 1980 Tamara de Lempicka died in her sleep. Kizette fulfilled her mother's last wish: from a rented helicopter she scattered the ashes of the artist in the crater of Popocatepetl - that volcano in Mexico, has never come fully to rest ...
The art of Tamara de Lempicka Tamara de Lempicka
style maps Nemet so-called "synthetic cubism" too. This is a corrected form of Cubism, as its inventor Andre blazed applies (see above). Synthetic Cubism attempted to "reconcile the iconography of living [...] with the Cubist avant-garde experiments of a Braque, Juan Gris or a Picasso."
short, in the eyes of the educated classes familiar with Cubism images acceptable to exclude dress up on the walls of homes right to disturb without (which is quite consistent with de Lempicka's commercial success). In addition, just let their female nudes - in Tamara de Lempicka a very common subject - the influence of neoclassicism back in vogue . Feel
If you want to know more, I recommend the chapter "The Art of the Caesars" :-) A bit of background knowledge and vocabulary you may want to bring already.
Conclusion: with anecdotes, juicy details from the Parisian artistic circles and sweeping descriptions of life on the legendary Rive provides Gauche the author of an appetite-stimulating insight into the Paris of the Roaring Twenties and makes you want more: more knowledge about these self-sufficient woman who loved art and high society at the same time. Not simply written, but worth the effort.