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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'') usi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Janin
Louise Janin (August 29, 1893, Durham, New Hampshire - 1997, Meudon) was an American painter who settled in Paris in 1923. Her work relates to symbolism and musicalism (the attempt to interpret music in painting). Biography Louise Janin was born in Durham, to a well-off family of French descent. Her father had put together a rich collection of Asian art. After the remarriage of her mother at the beginning of the 20th century, she lived in San Francisco, witnessing the earthquake of 1906. Demonstrating from early childhood dispositions for drawing, theater and music, it was in painting that she decided to educate herself. After attending courses at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco from 1911 to 1914 and William Merritt Chase's last summer class in Carmel-by-the-Sea, she took a long trip through Asia, then made her first canvases inspired by Buddhist, Hindu and Taoist mythologies. In 1921, she stayed in New York and participated in various exhibitions, pursu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |