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Woman With A Fan (Metzinger, 1912)
''Woman with a Fan'' (French: ''Femme à l'Éventail'', also known as ''The Lady'') is an oil painting created in 1912 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). The painting was exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, 1912, Paris (hung in the decorative arts section inside the ''Salon Bourgeois'' of ''La Maison Cubiste'', the ''Cubist House''), and ''De Moderne Kunstkring'', 1912, Amsterdam (''L'éventail vert'', no. 153). It was also exhibited at the Musée Rath, Geneva, ''Exposition de cubistes français et d'un groupe d'artistes indépendants'', 3–15 June 1913 (''L'éventail vert'', no. 22). A 1912 photograph of ''Femme à l'Éventail'' hanging on a wall inside the ''Salon Bourgeois'' was published in ''The Sun'' (New York, N.Y.), 10 November 1912. The same photograph was reproduced in ''The Literary Digest'', 30 November 1912. Metzinger's Cubist contribution to the 1912 Salon d'Automne created a controversy in the Municipal Council of Paris, leading to a deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Metzinger
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross. Between 1904 and 1907, Metzinger worked in the Divisionist and Fauvist styles with a strong Paul Cézanne, Cézannian component, leading to some of the first Proto-Cubism, proto-Cubist works. From 1908, Metzinger experimented with the faceting of form, a style that would soon become known as Cubism. His early involvement in Cubism saw him both as an influential artist and an important theorist of the movement. The idea of moving around an object in order to see it from different view-points is treated, for the first time, in Metzinger's ''Note sur la Peinture'', published in 1910.Jean Metzinger, October–November 1910, "Note sur la peinture" Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |