Jean Fautrier. The impulse of the line.
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| N° d'inventaire | 23931 |
| Format | 16.5 x 23.5 |
| Détails | 104 pages, 125 illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782359061222 |
A pioneering and far-sighted artist of the 20th century, a master of modern art, Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) never ceased to surprise and elude any regimentation. His thirst for formal innovation led Francis Ponge to say in the 1950s that he was the "most revolutionary painter of the century since Picasso." Fautrier was the pioneer of Art Informel, a post-war aesthetic approach that revolutionized the creative process and established the artist's gesture by exploiting all the possibilities of the medium. Fautrier very early on assigned the task of transcribing his plastic research to the graphic arts. Drawings in pen, charcoal, pencil, but also temperas, gouaches, pastels, prints... he sought to explore all the dimensions offered by paper: its plasticity, its strength, its flexibility, its expressive possibilities, the breath of its very material. A trait that also reveals, at times, a strong erotic dimension that mixes voluptuousness and tragic brutality. Through, essentially, the graphic works of the Fautrier donation preserved at the Musée du Domaine Départemental de Sceaux, the work highlights this impulsive and gushing trait, which is nourished by the vivacity of the gesture and a perfect technical mastery.
A pioneering and far-sighted artist of the 20th century, a master of modern art, Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) never ceased to surprise and elude any regimentation. His thirst for formal innovation led Francis Ponge to say in the 1950s that he was the "most revolutionary painter of the century since Picasso." Fautrier was the pioneer of Art Informel, a post-war aesthetic approach that revolutionized the creative process and established the artist's gesture by exploiting all the possibilities of the medium. Fautrier very early on assigned the task of transcribing his plastic research to the graphic arts. Drawings in pen, charcoal, pencil, but also temperas, gouaches, pastels, prints... he sought to explore all the dimensions offered by paper: its plasticity, its strength, its flexibility, its expressive possibilities, the breath of its very material. A trait that also reveals, at times, a strong erotic dimension that mixes voluptuousness and tragic brutality. Through, essentially, the graphic works of the Fautrier donation preserved at the Musée du Domaine Départemental de Sceaux, the work highlights this impulsive and gushing trait, which is nourished by the vivacity of the gesture and a perfect technical mastery.