Chaim Soutine
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Chaim Soutine
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This book is a fundamental monograph dedicated to Chaim Soutine (1893-1943). Even today it ranks first among lifetime studies, serious catalogues, articles and publications on the artist's work.
Soutine's Olympic gift is obvious, his painting has long and forever 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 became. Soutine did not enter any "national history of art", remaining an alien in France and maintaining a connection with Russian culture only in the hidden depths of his work, which belonged more to Time - the 20th century, than to the Place where it grew up.
The artist developed the most important tendency of 20th century art, which began with Baudelaire: the aestheticization of everything, independent of the subject, rather, even in spite of it. The feeling of life as suffering, and painting as a way to overcome it, will forever remain the dominant theme of his work. He died during World War II. Among the few who saw Soutine off at the Montparnasse Cemetery was Picasso.
The book is addressed to art historians and a wide range of lovers of 20th-century art.
Soutine's Olympic gift is obvious, his painting has long and forever 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 became. Soutine did not enter any "national history of art", remaining an alien in France and maintaining a connection with Russian culture only in the hidden depths of his work, which belonged more to Time - the 20th century, than to the Place where it grew up.
The artist developed the most important tendency of 20th century art, which began with Baudelaire: the aestheticization of everything, independent of the subject, rather, even in spite of it. The feeling of life as suffering, and painting as a way to overcome it, will forever remain the dominant theme of his work. He died during World War II. Among the few who saw Soutine off at the Montparnasse Cemetery was Picasso.
The book is addressed to art historians and a wide range of lovers of 20th-century art.
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