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Musicalism
Musicalism (French - ''musicalisme'') was an art movement created in 1932 by Henry Valensi in collaboration with Charles Blanc-Gatti, Gustave Bourgogne and Vittorio Straquadaini. Painters in the movement used colour material for its vibrations - Valensi himself spoke of sentimental resonances. Their paintings sought to synchronise colours and forms in space like a musician arranging his sound material directly in line with the emotions he or she was trying to express. Musicalism is an artistic movement created by the painter Henry Valensi in 1932, with Charles Blanc-Gatti, Gustave Bourgogne and Vittorio Straquadaini. History According to Raymond Bayer "musicalism was more than a school, it was a doctrine of art. It even went beyond being the doctrine which always contained it, for it was a body of knowledge forming a system ...". It was at once an art movement and the movement of art itself. Valensi produced an animated film, ''Spring Symphony'' (''Symphonie printanière'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Valensi
Henry Valensi (17 September 1883 - 21 April 1960) was a French Cubism, Cubist painter, animator, film director and art theoretician. He founded the musicalism movement and created 'La Symphonie printanière' (Spring Symphony), a unique abstract animation or "cinépeinture" (film-painting), a print of which was acquired in 2013 by the musée national d'art moderne in Paris and exhibited there from 23 October 2013 to 5 January 2015 (alongside seven of his paintings left to the French state) as part of its "Plural Modernities" hang. The Association Henry Valensi, made up of the artists' beneficiaries, has been managing and promoting his work since 2013. Biography Born in Algiers, he began by painting Algerian landscapes. His family moved to the 9th arrondissement of Paris in 1899 and encouraged his enthusiasm for painting. On the advice of Léon Bonnat, in 1902 Valensi joined the Académie Julian, where he studied painting under Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury. From 1905 Étienn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |