Chaim Soutine
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Chaim Soutine
29.99 €
This book is a definitive monograph dedicated to Chaim Soutine (1893–1943). It still ranks first among lifetime studies, serious catalogues, articles, and publications on the artist's work.
Soutine's Olympian gift is obvious; his painting has long since stood on a par with the works of Van Gogh, Munch, and Picasso. For more than a quarter of a century, he worked separately from contemporary art, which, without him, nevertheless could not have become what it did. Soutine has not entered any "national art history," remaining a stranger in France and maintaining a connection to Russian culture only in the hidden depths of his work, which belonged more to its Time—the 20th century—than to the Place where it grew.
The artist developed a crucial trend in 20th-century art, dating back to Baudelaire: the aestheticization of everything, independent of its subject, or rather, even in defiance of it. The sense of life as suffering, and painting as a path to overcoming it, will forever remain the dominant theme of his work. He died during World War II. Picasso was among the few who paid his last respects at the Montparnasse Cemetery.
This book is addressed to art historians and a wide audience of 20th-century art lovers.
Soutine's Olympian gift is obvious; his painting has long since stood on a par with the works of Van Gogh, Munch, and Picasso. For more than a quarter of a century, he worked separately from contemporary art, which, without him, nevertheless could not have become what it did. Soutine has not entered any "national art history," remaining a stranger in France and maintaining a connection to Russian culture only in the hidden depths of his work, which belonged more to its Time—the 20th century—than to the Place where it grew.
The artist developed a crucial trend in 20th-century art, dating back to Baudelaire: the aestheticization of everything, independent of its subject, or rather, even in defiance of it. The sense of life as suffering, and painting as a path to overcoming it, will forever remain the dominant theme of his work. He died during World War II. Picasso was among the few who paid his last respects at the Montparnasse Cemetery.
This book is addressed to art historians and a wide audience of 20th-century art lovers.
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