Marthe by Pierre Bonnard, c. 1900s Photograph, drawing, and photo/drawing superimposition
Archives de Tag: drawing
Abraham Walkowitz- Paintings and drawings of Isadora Duncan.
« These two American modernists, painter Abraham Walkowitz and dancer Isadora Duncan, born in the same year (1878), both artists influenced the development of modern art in the early twentieth century by blending figurative gesture with abstraction. Duncan grew up in a free-spirited and artistic household in California and then moved to Europe. Walkowitz immigrated to the United States from Russia when he was a child and lived most of his life in New York City, where he studied at Cooper Union School and the National Academy of Design.
Walkowitz and Duncan met in 1906 in Paris at the studio of the sculptor Auguste Rodin. Deeply impressed by Duncan’s musicality and expressivity, Abraham Walkowitz’s obsession with the celebrated modern dancer Isadora Duncan sets him apart from the others. Over his lifetime it is believed that he created five thousand images of her, dancing . Because Walkowitz’s renderings of Duncan were produced quickly, they carry an element of improvisational vitality that matches the dynamic energy of her presence onstage. In her introductory essay, author Ann Cooper Albright weaves literary theory, art criticism, and dance history into a fluid narrative to explore how Walkowitz’s drawings realize Duncan’s dancing on paper. Modern Gestures reproduces over fifty watercolors of this unique oeuvre, many of which have never before been published.« » . Ed° Modern Gestures: Abraham Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan Dancing Wesleyan , 2010
Egon Schiele
František Drtikol- Eatching
František Drtikol était également graphiste, peintre et dessinateur. aujourd’hui ceux sont des dessins et graphiques des années 1910 et 1920 que je vous propose de découvrir. Oeuvres bien moins connues de l’auteur et pourtant d’une rareté et d’une beauté extraordinaire. Ces peintures ont été retrouvées par hasard dans l’héritage de Drtikol . Le thème principal est la Terre-mère, ainsi que le voyage initiatique, elles ont été fort probablement créées pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.
With the Courtesy of Valtelin
Pablo Picasso- Femme en costume de bain, 1931-1932

Pablo Picasso- Femme en costume de bain, 1931-1932