Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet was born March 27 1875 BirthBordeaux, France.
Died June 14 1947 deathParis.
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Albert Marquet, who was born in Bordeaux, was both very young and very poor when he went to Paris to study at the School of Decorative Arts under Gustave Moreau. Matisse was also studying there at the time and, in order to earn money, the two artists decorated the halls for the Paris Exposition of 1900 in Moreau’s Art Nouveau style…
Marquet was on of the most important and creative members of the Fauve group of painters in the last years of the 1910’s. Like his friends Matisse and Vlaminck, Marquet was then seeking a raw visual emotional quality which would reawaken the visual senses of his viewers after what he felt was the bland over intellectual idea of visual sensation promoted by Impressionism…
Naples, Le Voilier’
Bay of Naples’
Musee d’Orsay
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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