Maurice Denis. Love.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 23369 |
| Format | 15 x 23 |
| Détails | 192 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754112086 |
Maurice Denis (1870-1943) was a painter and theoretician of French modern art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Beyond his famous motto of 1890, "Remember that a painting—before being a warhorse, a naked woman, or any anecdote—is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order," the richness of his pictorial production and the abundance of his writings reveal the ambition of a life entirely devoted to art, love, and religion. This book traces the multiple facets of this original and captivating journey, up to the First World War. Bringing together a rich corpus of annotated works, it shows the rapid evolution of the artist's style, from the unprecedented plastic experiments of the "Nabi with beautiful icons" to the expression through the harmony of forms and colors of Symbolist works, then the equally audacious quest for a new classicism. Entrusted to specialists, the essays published in this work re-evaluate Maurice Denis's place in his time: his desire to create modern poetic and musical images, always anchored in nature and in daily life; his dialogue with the examples of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse; his participation in the revaluation of applied arts alongside his Nabis friends, and his confrontation with large-scale mural decoration; finally, the constant sources of inspiration that were his wife Marthe and his children, the forests of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the beaches of Brittany. This work is composed of seven essays by specialists in the artist and the period: - Fabienne Stahl, responsible for the promotion and promotion of the collections, Maurice Denis Departmental Museum, and Catalogue raisonné Maurice Denis, “Maurice Denis’s journey until 1914” - Jean-Paul Bouillon, professor emeritus of art history, Clermont-Auvergne University, “Maurice Denis theoretician, 1890-1914” - Isabelle Cahn, general curator of paintings, Paris, Musée d’Orsay, “Maurice Denis. The Nabi with Beautiful Icons" - Pierre Pinchon, lecturer in contemporary art history, Aix-Marseille University, "Maurice Denis in the Age of Symbolism, 1885-1897" - Guillaume Ambroise, director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Quimper, "A Promised Land, the Brittany of Maurice Denis" - Catherine Lepdor, chief curator, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts of Lausanne "Maurice Denis. In Search of the Lost Painting" - Claire Denis, Catalogue raisonné Maurice Denis, "Maurice Denis and Switzerland" Ninety major works by the artist are reproduced in the second part, paintings and prints brought together for the exhibition, from the collections of the Musée d'Orsay, French and European museums, and important private collections; forty commentaries on works offer freeze-frames.
Maurice Denis (1870-1943) was a painter and theoretician of French modern art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Beyond his famous motto of 1890, "Remember that a painting—before being a warhorse, a naked woman, or any anecdote—is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order," the richness of his pictorial production and the abundance of his writings reveal the ambition of a life entirely devoted to art, love, and religion. This book traces the multiple facets of this original and captivating journey, up to the First World War. Bringing together a rich corpus of annotated works, it shows the rapid evolution of the artist's style, from the unprecedented plastic experiments of the "Nabi with beautiful icons" to the expression through the harmony of forms and colors of Symbolist works, then the equally audacious quest for a new classicism. Entrusted to specialists, the essays published in this work re-evaluate Maurice Denis's place in his time: his desire to create modern poetic and musical images, always anchored in nature and in daily life; his dialogue with the examples of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse; his participation in the revaluation of applied arts alongside his Nabis friends, and his confrontation with large-scale mural decoration; finally, the constant sources of inspiration that were his wife Marthe and his children, the forests of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the beaches of Brittany. This work is composed of seven essays by specialists in the artist and the period: - Fabienne Stahl, responsible for the promotion and promotion of the collections, Maurice Denis Departmental Museum, and Catalogue raisonné Maurice Denis, “Maurice Denis’s journey until 1914” - Jean-Paul Bouillon, professor emeritus of art history, Clermont-Auvergne University, “Maurice Denis theoretician, 1890-1914” - Isabelle Cahn, general curator of paintings, Paris, Musée d’Orsay, “Maurice Denis. The Nabi with Beautiful Icons" - Pierre Pinchon, lecturer in contemporary art history, Aix-Marseille University, "Maurice Denis in the Age of Symbolism, 1885-1897" - Guillaume Ambroise, director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Quimper, "A Promised Land, the Brittany of Maurice Denis" - Catherine Lepdor, chief curator, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts of Lausanne "Maurice Denis. In Search of the Lost Painting" - Claire Denis, Catalogue raisonné Maurice Denis, "Maurice Denis and Switzerland" Ninety major works by the artist are reproduced in the second part, paintings and prints brought together for the exhibition, from the collections of the Musée d'Orsay, French and European museums, and important private collections; forty commentaries on works offer freeze-frames.