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Woman with Black Glove

Woman with Black Glove (French: Femme au gant noir, or Femme Assise) is a painting by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. Painted in 1920, after returning to Paris in the wake of World War I, the paintings highly abstract structure is consistent with style of experimentation that transpired during the second synthetic phase of Cubism, called Crystal Cubism. As other post-wartime works by Gleizes, Woman with Black Glove represents a break from the first phase of Cubism, with emphasis placed on flat surface activity and large overlapping geometric planes.

Woman with Black Glove
French: Femme au gant noir
ArtistAlbert Gleizes
Year1920
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions126 cm × 100 cm (49.6 in × 39.37 in)
LocationNational Gallery of Australia, Parkes, Australian Capital Territory

There are several smaller versions of Woman with Black Glove, illustrating a facet of Gleizes' pursuits during the early 1920s: "reminiscences of specific reality evoked within the context of increasingly careful picture construction", writes art historian Daniel Robbins.[1]

Woman with Black Glove was exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 15 October – 12 December 1920. The work was reproduced in Floréal: l'hebdomadaire illustré du monde du travail, no. 45, 11 December 1920 (titled Peinture avec femme assise).[2]

Formerly in the private collection of Juliette Roche-Gleizes (wife of the artist), Woman with Black Glove is located at the National Gallery of Australia.[3]

Description

Woman with Black Glove is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 126 x 100 cm (49.6 x 39.37 inches), signed Albert Gleizes, lower right, and dated 1.1.1920. As indicated by the title, the work represents a woman wearing a glove. She is seated on an angle facing toward left with respect to the viewer. Her face and head are composed of simple geometric shapes (circles, arcs, rectangles or squares) that delineate the woman's eyes, nose and mouth. Her hair, coiffed in chignon hairstyle, is treated in a series of concentric circles. Her clothed body is constructed with seemingly arbitrary forms, and is place within a background composition of highly geometric interconnected planes or surfaces. An arch toward the upper left is reminiscent of a doorway or window, but there is no indication whether the scene is an interior or exterior representation.

The overall color scheme is warm, consisting of red through yellow, browns and tans (earth tones, ochres), and black, along with varying shades of cool gray. The artists use of bold contrasts between light and dark affect the entire composition. However, there is a striking absence of chiaroscuro modeling that would otherwise indicate a sense of volume in modeling the three-dimensional figure, or give a sense of the direction of light cast upon the model. The overt distillation of the composition, with its emphasis placed on flat surface activity, large overlapping planes, and the primacy of the underlying geometric structure rooted in the abstract, is consistent with Crystal Cubism.[4]

Background

In an article on the topic of the 1920 Salon d'Automne exhibition, published in Floréal (hebdomadaire) [fr], 1920, the art critic Castaing writes of Gleizes' entry, Femme au gant noir:

Gleizes has sent a very pure portrait of a woman. He is a researcher and this is intelligence. We feel in him something new and strong. His painting for the great halls of future cities project a flamboyance of colors to which we were not accustom [Gleizes a envoyé un portrait de femme très pur. C'est un chercheur et c'est une intelligence. On sent en lui quelque chose de neuf et de fort. Sa peinture pour les grands halls des cités futures dégage un flamboiement de couleurs auquel il ne nous avait pas habitués].[2]

Gleizes's works from this period are "characterized by dynamic intersections of vertical, diagonal, horizontal and circular movements", writes Robbins, "austere in touch but loaded with energetic pattern."[5] This unity, and the highly crystalline geometricized materialization consisting of superimposed constituent planes, ultimately referred to by the French poet and art critic Maurice Raynal as Crystal Cubism,[6] would soon be described by Gleizes in La Peinture et ses lois (1922–23), as 'simultaneous movements of translation and rotation of the plane'.[7][8] The synthetic factor was taken furthest of all from within the Cubists by Gleizes.[4]

Basing himself on his 1915 abstractions, Gleizes sought to clarify his intentions and methods further still in La Peinture et ses lois, deducing the fundamental principles of painting from the picture plane, its proportions, the movement of the human eye and the universal physical laws. These theoretical postulates, later referred to as translation-rotation, according to Robbins, rank "with the writings of Mondrian and Malevich as one of the most thorough expositions of the principles of abstract art.[5] The case of Woman with Black Glove, however, entails the acceptance of both representation and geometric forms.

 
Albert Gleizes, study for Femme au gants noirs, drawing (zeichnung), published on the cover of Der Sturm, 5 June 1920

Following the First World War, Gleizes deliberately purged his art of visible brushstrokes, of the artists physical gesture, which amounted to what he called a "aesthetic trick". Instead, his attention became focused on the associations between various geometric structures.[1][9] The attempt was to arrive at a fundamental unity of the picture plane, through the deployment of highly crystalline geometricized superimpositions of constituent surfaces, described by Gleizes, in La Peinture et ses lois as 'simultaneous movements of translation and rotation of the plane'.[8][7]

The problem set out by Gleizes was to replace anecdote as a starting point for the work of art, by the sole means of using the elements of the painting itself: line, form and color.[10][11] Beginning with an elementary form such as a central rectangle, Gleizes mechanically juxtaposed forms to create a painting: (1) either by reproducing the initial form (employing various symmetries such as reflectional, rotational or translational), or by modifying (or not) its dimensions.[10] (2) By displacement of the initial form; pivoting around an imaginary axis in one direction or another.[10][11]

The choice of position (through translation and/or rotation), though based on the inspiration of the artist, is no longer attributed to the anecdotal. An objective and rigorous method, independent of the painter, replaces emotion or sensibility in the determination the placement of form, that is, through translation and rotation.[10][11]

According to Gleizes, 'translation' represented an unfolding of planes as seen against the surface of a painting (a square or rectangular); 'rotation' occurred when these planes began to shift around a central point.[12][9]

In La peinture ou de l’homme devenu peintre, Gleizes writes:

Painting by its nature is not a spectacle, nor an object seen via a point of perspective, it is instead its own object. There are three types of expression in objective painting: there is the pure work, without recourse to recollected or written history. There is the work which freely experiences recalled imagery by coincidental interrelation of melodic lines. Finally there is the work where an iconographic subject has been freely undertaken.[9][13]

Already in 1920, Gleizes had published his views on this new technique of painting in Du Cubisme et les moyens de le comprendre,[14] in which he insists that the 2-dimensional planar surface, with clearly defined limits, is the primary reality in painting, and that the artist should work with it, as opposed to against it.[15] He argues that Cubism had been a search for a precise scientific method to replace the old scientific method of one-point perspective, and that the essential elements of this new method are now known.[16][17]

Related works

Selected exhibitions

  • Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 15 October – 12 December 1920
  • Marlborough Gallery, London, 1956, no. 13 (as Femme Assise)
  • Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 17
  • Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 23.

Further reading

  • Albert Gleizes. Le cubisme en majesté, cat. exp., Barcelona, Museu Picasso; Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2001
  • A. Varichon, Albert Gleizes. Catalogue raisonné, Paris, Fondation Gleizes, Somogy, 1998
  • Albert Gleizes et tempête dans les Salons, 1910-1914, Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble, 1963, p. 32.
  • Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953: Musée Roybet-Fould, du 6 novembre au 20 décembre 1971, Presses Artistiques, 1971, p. 17.
  • Vingtième siècle: revue d'histoire, Issues 73-74, Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 2002, p. 200.
  • L'art moderne à Marseille: la collection du Musée Cantini : Musée Cantini, Centre de la Vieille Charité, 9 juillet-19 septembre 1988, p. 45.
  • Historia 16, Issues 297-302, Generalísimo, 2001, p. 10.
  • World Collectors Annuary, Brouwer, p. 152.
  • Nouvelles de l'estampe, Issues 175-180, Comité national de la gravure française, 2001.
  • Les Français qui ont fait la France, Philippe Boitel, Sud Ouest, 2009, p. 605.
  • Gustav Klimt bis Paul Klee: Wotruba und die Moderne, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Antonia Hoerschelmann, Albertina, 2003, p. 260.

References

  1. ^ a b Daniel Robbins, 1964, Albert Gleizes 1881 - 1953, A Retrospective Exhibition, Published by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, in collaboration with Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
  2. ^ a b Au Salon d'Automne, Avant la fermeture du Salon d'Automne, Floréal (Éd. hebdomadaire): l'hebdomadaire illustré du monde du travail, n. 45, 11 December 1920. Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France
  3. ^ National Gallery of Australia, Albert Gleizes, Femme au gant noir (Woman with black glove), 1920
  4. ^ a b Christopher Green, Cubism and its Enemies, Modern Movements and Reaction in French Art, 1916–1928, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1987, pp. 13-47, 215.
  5. ^ a b Daniel Robbins, Albert Gleizes, Grove Art Online, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, Oxford University Press, 2009
  6. ^ Christopher Green, Late Cubism, MoMA, Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2009
  7. ^ a b Peter Brooke, Albert Gleizes: For and Against the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 0300089643
  8. ^ a b Peter Brooke, Painting and Its Laws, Albert Gleizes, La peinture et ses lois, Ce qui devait sortir du Cubisme, Paris 1924
  9. ^ a b c Helen Topliss, Anne Dangar at Moly-Sabata, Tradition and Innovation, National Gallery of Australia
  10. ^ a b c d Pierre Alibert, Gleizes, Naissance et avenir du cubisme, Aubin-Visconti, Edition Dumas, Saint-Etienne, October 1982, ISBN 2-85529-000-7
  11. ^ a b c Albert Gleizes, La Peinture et ses lois, Ce qui devait sortir du cubisme, La Vie des lettres et des arts, 1922-3, 1924 in book form
  12. ^ Albert Gleizes, Homocentrisme ou le retour de l'homme Chrétien, Sablons: Editions Moly-Sabata, 1937, p. 13.
  13. ^ Albert Gleizes, La peinture et de l’homme devenu peintre (1948), Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1998, p. 21.
  14. ^ Albert Gleizes, Du Cubisme et des moyens de le comprendre, La Cible (Povolozky), Paris, 1920
  15. ^ Gleizes on Picasso and Braque, An anthology (1953), first published in French, Association des Amis d'Albert Gleizes, 1997. Translation and Preface by Peter Brooke
  16. ^ Albert Gleizes, Du Cubisme et les moyens de le comprendre, Paris (eds "La Cigogne) 1921
  17. ^ Peter Brooke, Albert Gleizes, Chronology of his life, 1920

External links

  • Fondation Albert Gleizes
  • L'œuvre Paysage de Toul, Centre Pompidou
  • Douglas Cooper, The Cubist Epoch, Phaidon Press Limited 1970 in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ISBN 0-87587-041-4

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Woman with Black Glove French Femme au gant noir or Femme Assise is a painting by the French artist theorist and writer Albert Gleizes Painted in 1920 after returning to Paris in the wake of World War I the paintings highly abstract structure is consistent with style of experimentation that transpired during the second synthetic phase of Cubism called Crystal Cubism As other post wartime works by Gleizes Woman with Black Glove represents a break from the first phase of Cubism with emphasis placed on flat surface activity and large overlapping geometric planes Woman with Black GloveFrench Femme au gant noirArtistAlbert GleizesYear1920MediumOil on canvasDimensions126 cm 100 cm 49 6 in 39 37 in LocationNational Gallery of Australia Parkes Australian Capital TerritoryThere are several smaller versions of Woman with Black Glove illustrating a facet of Gleizes pursuits during the early 1920s reminiscences of specific reality evoked within the context of increasingly careful picture construction writes art historian Daniel Robbins 1 Woman with Black Glove was exhibited at the Salon d Automne Grand Palais Paris 15 October 12 December 1920 The work was reproduced in Floreal l hebdomadaire illustre du monde du travail no 45 11 December 1920 titled Peinture avec femme assise 2 Formerly in the private collection of Juliette Roche Gleizes wife of the artist Woman with Black Glove is located at the National Gallery of Australia 3 Contents 1 Description 2 Background 3 Related works 4 Selected exhibitions 5 Further reading 6 References 7 External linksDescription EditWoman with Black Glove is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 126 x 100 cm 49 6 x 39 37 inches signed Albert Gleizes lower right and dated 1 1 1920 As indicated by the title the work represents a woman wearing a glove She is seated on an angle facing toward left with respect to the viewer Her face and head are composed of simple geometric shapes circles arcs rectangles or squares that delineate the woman s eyes nose and mouth Her hair coiffed in chignon hairstyle is treated in a series of concentric circles Her clothed body is constructed with seemingly arbitrary forms and is place within a background composition of highly geometric interconnected planes or surfaces An arch toward the upper left is reminiscent of a doorway or window but there is no indication whether the scene is an interior or exterior representation The overall color scheme is warm consisting of red through yellow browns and tans earth tones ochres and black along with varying shades of cool gray The artists use of bold contrasts between light and dark affect the entire composition However there is a striking absence of chiaroscuro modeling that would otherwise indicate a sense of volume in modeling the three dimensional figure or give a sense of the direction of light cast upon the model The overt distillation of the composition with its emphasis placed on flat surface activity large overlapping planes and the primacy of the underlying geometric structure rooted in the abstract is consistent with Crystal Cubism 4 Background EditIn an article on the topic of the 1920 Salon d Automne exhibition published in Floreal hebdomadaire fr 1920 the art critic Castaing writes of Gleizes entry Femme au gant noir Gleizes has sent a very pure portrait of a woman He is a researcher and this is intelligence We feel in him something new and strong His painting for the great halls of future cities project a flamboyance of colors to which we were not accustom Gleizes a envoye un portrait de femme tres pur C est un chercheur et c est une intelligence On sent en lui quelque chose de neuf et de fort Sa peinture pour les grands halls des cites futures degage un flamboiement de couleurs auquel il ne nous avait pas habitues 2 Gleizes s works from this period are characterized by dynamic intersections of vertical diagonal horizontal and circular movements writes Robbins austere in touch but loaded with energetic pattern 5 This unity and the highly crystalline geometricized materialization consisting of superimposed constituent planes ultimately referred to by the French poet and art critic Maurice Raynal as Crystal Cubism 6 would soon be described by Gleizes in La Peinture et ses lois 1922 23 as simultaneous movements of translation and rotation of the plane 7 8 The synthetic factor was taken furthest of all from within the Cubists by Gleizes 4 Basing himself on his 1915 abstractions Gleizes sought to clarify his intentions and methods further still in La Peinture et ses lois deducing the fundamental principles of painting from the picture plane its proportions the movement of the human eye and the universal physical laws These theoretical postulates later referred to as translation rotation according to Robbins rank with the writings of Mondrian and Malevich as one of the most thorough expositions of the principles of abstract art 5 The case of Woman with Black Glove however entails the acceptance of both representation and geometric forms Albert Gleizes study for Femme au gants noirs drawing zeichnung published on the cover of Der Sturm 5 June 1920 Following the First World War Gleizes deliberately purged his art of visible brushstrokes of the artists physical gesture which amounted to what he called a aesthetic trick Instead his attention became focused on the associations between various geometric structures 1 9 The attempt was to arrive at a fundamental unity of the picture plane through the deployment of highly crystalline geometricized superimpositions of constituent surfaces described by Gleizes in La Peinture et ses lois as simultaneous movements of translation and rotation of the plane 8 7 The problem set out by Gleizes was to replace anecdote as a starting point for the work of art by the sole means of using the elements of the painting itself line form and color 10 11 Beginning with an elementary form such as a central rectangle Gleizes mechanically juxtaposed forms to create a painting 1 either by reproducing the initial form employing various symmetries such as reflectional rotational or translational or by modifying or not its dimensions 10 2 By displacement of the initial form pivoting around an imaginary axis in one direction or another 10 11 The choice of position through translation and or rotation though based on the inspiration of the artist is no longer attributed to the anecdotal An objective and rigorous method independent of the painter replaces emotion or sensibility in the determination the placement of form that is through translation and rotation 10 11 According to Gleizes translation represented an unfolding of planes as seen against the surface of a painting a square or rectangular rotation occurred when these planes began to shift around a central point 12 9 In La peinture ou de l homme devenu peintre Gleizes writes Painting by its nature is not a spectacle nor an object seen via a point of perspective it is instead its own object There are three types of expression in objective painting there is the pure work without recourse to recollected or written history There is the work which freely experiences recalled imagery by coincidental interrelation of melodic lines Finally there is the work where an iconographic subject has been freely undertaken 9 13 Already in 1920 Gleizes had published his views on this new technique of painting in Du Cubisme et les moyens de le comprendre 14 in which he insists that the 2 dimensional planar surface with clearly defined limits is the primary reality in painting and that the artist should work with it as opposed to against it 15 He argues that Cubism had been a search for a precise scientific method to replace the old scientific method of one point perspective and that the essential elements of this new method are now known 16 17 Related works Edit Albert Gleizes 1914 15 Portrait of an Army Doctor Portrait d un medecin militaire oil on canvas 119 8 x 95 1 cm Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Albert Gleizes 1920 Figure gouache on canvas 91 4 x 76 2 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art Albert Gleizes Action Cahiers Individualistes de philosophie et d art Volume 1 No 1 February 1920 Albert Gleizes c 1920 Figures planes Trois personnages assis dimensions approximately 126 x 100 cm location unknown Exhibited Der Sturm Berlin 1921 no 927 and reproduced in Gleizes 1927 p 97 Albert Gleizes 1920 Femme et enfant Woman and child reproduced in Der Sturm 5 October 1921 Albert Gleizes Woman and child Frau und Kind Der Sturm 5 October 1921 Albert Gleizes 1920 Ecuyere Horsewoman oil on canvas 130 x 93 cm Musee des Beaux Arts de Rouen published in Broom An International Magazine of the Arts November 1921 This 1920 painting was reworked in 1923 Albert Gleizes 1920 23 Ecuyere Horsewoman oil on canvas 130 x 93 cm Musee des Beaux Arts de Rouen Purchased from the artist in 1951 Depot du Centre Pompidou 1998 This 1920 painting was reworked in 1923 Albert Gleizes c 1920 L Homme dans les maisons cover illustration of La Vie des Lettres et des Arts Jacques Povolozky amp Cie Paris 1920 Albert Gleizes 1920 Femme portant un enfant Exposition Internationale d Art Moderne Geneva 26 December 1920 25 January 1921 No 185 Albert Gleizes 1921 Composition bleu et jaune Composition jaune oil on canvas 200 5 x 110 cm Albert Gleizes untitled drawing zeichnung published in the cover of Der Sturm Volume 11 Number 11 12 5 December 1920Selected exhibitions EditSalon d Automne Grand Palais Paris 15 October 12 December 1920 Marlborough Gallery London 1956 no 13 as Femme Assise Musee Calvet Avignon 1962 no 17 Musee de Grenoble 1963 no 23 Further reading EditAlbert Gleizes Le cubisme en majeste cat exp Barcelona Museu Picasso Lyon Musee des Beaux Arts 2001 A Varichon Albert Gleizes Catalogue raisonne Paris Fondation Gleizes Somogy 1998 Albert Gleizes et tempete dans les Salons 1910 1914 Musee de Peinture et de Sculpture Grenoble 1963 p 32 Albert Gleizes 1881 1953 Musee Roybet Fould du 6 novembre au 20 decembre 1971 Presses Artistiques 1971 p 17 Vingtieme siecle revue d histoire Issues 73 74 Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques 2002 p 200 L art moderne a Marseille la collection du Musee Cantini Musee Cantini Centre de la Vieille Charite 9 juillet 19 septembre 1988 p 45 Historia 16 Issues 297 302 Generalisimo 2001 p 10 World Collectors Annuary Brouwer p 152 Nouvelles de l estampe Issues 175 180 Comite national de la gravure francaise 2001 Les Francais qui ont fait la France Philippe Boitel Sud Ouest 2009 p 605 Gustav Klimt bis Paul Klee Wotruba und die Moderne Klaus Albrecht Schroder Antonia Hoerschelmann Albertina 2003 p 260 References Edit a b Daniel Robbins 1964 Albert Gleizes 1881 1953 A Retrospective Exhibition Published by The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation New York in collaboration with Musee National d Art Moderne Paris Museum am Ostwall Dortmund a b Au Salon d Automne Avant la fermeture du Salon d Automne Floreal Ed hebdomadaire l hebdomadaire illustre du monde du travail n 45 11 December 1920 Gallica Bibliotheque nationale de France National Gallery of Australia Albert Gleizes Femme au gant noir Woman with black glove 1920 a b Christopher Green Cubism and its Enemies Modern Movements and Reaction in French Art 1916 1928 Yale University Press New Haven and London 1987 pp 13 47 215 a b Daniel Robbins Albert Gleizes Grove Art Online Museum of Modern Art MoMA New York Oxford University Press 2009 Christopher Green Late Cubism MoMA Grove Art Online Oxford University Press 2009 a b Peter Brooke Albert Gleizes For and Against the Twentieth Century Yale University Press 2001 ISBN 0300089643 a b Peter Brooke Painting and Its Laws Albert Gleizes La peinture et ses lois Ce qui devait sortir du Cubisme Paris 1924 a b c Helen Topliss Anne Dangar at Moly Sabata Tradition and Innovation National Gallery of Australia a b c d Pierre Alibert Gleizes Naissance et avenir du cubisme Aubin Visconti Edition Dumas Saint Etienne October 1982 ISBN 2 85529 000 7 a b c Albert Gleizes La Peinture et ses lois Ce qui devait sortir du cubisme La Vie des lettres et des arts 1922 3 1924 in book form Albert Gleizes Homocentrisme ou le retour de l homme Chretien Sablons Editions Moly Sabata 1937 p 13 Albert Gleizes La peinture et de l homme devenu peintre 1948 Paris Somogy Editions d Art 1998 p 21 Albert Gleizes Du Cubisme et des moyens de le comprendre La Cible Povolozky Paris 1920 Gleizes on Picasso and Braque An anthology 1953 first published in French Association des Amis d Albert Gleizes 1997 Translation and Preface by Peter Brooke Albert Gleizes Du Cubisme et les moyens de le comprendre Paris eds La Cigogne 1921 Peter Brooke Albert Gleizes Chronology of his life 1920External links EditFondation Albert Gleizes L œuvre Paysage de Toul Centre Pompidou Douglas Cooper The Cubist Epoch Phaidon Press Limited 1970 in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 0 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