Color and light : the Neo-impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross / edited by Frédéric Frank, Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, Ortrud Westheider, and Michael Philipp ; with contributions by Raphaël Dupouy, Marina Feretti Bocquillon, Annette Haudiquet, Monique Nonne, Valérie Reis, Richard Thomson, Daniel Zamani.

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French, German Publisher: Munich, Germany ; London, England ; New York, New York : Prestel, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 31 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

3791357735
9783791357737
9783791368511
3791368516

Other title:

Neo-impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross

Contained works:

Cross, Henri Edmond, 1856-1910, Works. Selections [artist.]

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Genre/Form: DDC classification:

709.944

LOC classification:

ND553.C964 A4 2018

Contents:

Foreword -- Henri-Edmond Cross and Germany / Marina Ferretti Bocquillon -- "To paint happiness"? : Henri-Edmond Cross's landscapes / Daniel Zamani -- Henri-Edmond Cross : anarchism, ambiguity, and Nietzsche / Richard Thomson -- Henri-Edmond Cross and Belgium / Monique Nonne -- Henri-Edmond Cross : an unrecognized Néo draftsman / Annette Haudiquet -- Catalog of exhibited works. From the academy to the pictorial avant-garde : Henri-Edmond Cross's early works / Valérie Reis ; Henri-Edmond Cross, Neo-Impressionist painter / Marina Ferretti Bocquillon ; A pioneer of modern painting : Henri-Edmond Cross's late works / Daniel Zamani ; Henri-Edmond Cross's works on paper : "become who you are" / Marina Ferretti Bocquillon ; Appendix. "The most beautiful region in the world" : Henri-Edmond Cross and Le Lavandou / Raphaël Dupouy ; Chronology / Valérie Reis.

Summary: Inspired by the work of Realist painters such as Gustave Courbet and Francois Bonvin, Henri-Edmond Cross's earliest paintings were compositions in dark, somber colors. Following his involvement with the avant-gardist circle around Georges Seurat, he gradually adopted the Neo-Impressionist technique and began to develop a unique visual vocabulary. After his move to the Mediterranean coast in 1891, Cross's palette became increasingly lighter, resulting in dazzlingly colorful landscapes, genre paintings, and compositions that are overlaid with mythological and allegorical allusions. This volume traces Cross's artistic trajectory through all stages of his prolific career and situates his masterful approach to color and light within the broader context of the European avant-garde of his time. In addition, it examines the painter's anarchist sympathies and the political dimensions of his depictions of utopian sceneries. Exhibition: Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany (17.11.2018-17.02.2019).Summary: "In 1891 Henri-Edmond Cross was one of the first painters who decided to settle down on the coast of southern France. As Maurice Denis remembered: 'In this northerner's pale eyes there shone all the brilliant light of the Midi.' Surrounded by gloriously beautiful nature, Cross devoted himself to his art, which attests to a marvelous conquest of color. His development leads from the austere portraits of his early period to intensely colored nudes depicted in leisurely abandon in Mediterranean landscapes. This catalog retraces Cross's career in its entirety, focusing on the artist's growing command of color in its astoundingly infinite variations and highlighting the painter's role in the liberation of color at the dawn of the twentieth century." --publisher's description, dust jacket

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Text in English, translated from the French and the German.

"Translations: Martina Dervis, Malcolm Imrie, and Robert McInnes (French-English); Philippa Hurd (German-English)"--Colophon

Catalog of an exhibition at Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, July 27-November 4, 2018; and Museum Barberini, Potsdam, November 17, 2018-February 17, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-268).

"Color and Light: the Neo-Impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross" : July 27-November 4, 2018, Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, Giverny, France.

"Color and Light: the Neo-Impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross" : November 17, 2018-February 17, 2019, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany

Inspired by the work of Realist painters such as Gustave Courbet and Francois Bonvin, Henri-Edmond Cross's earliest paintings were compositions in dark, somber colors. Following his involvement with the avant-gardist circle around Georges Seurat, he gradually adopted the Neo-Impressionist technique and began to develop a unique visual vocabulary. After his move to the Mediterranean coast in 1891, Cross's palette became increasingly lighter, resulting in dazzlingly colorful landscapes, genre paintings, and compositions that are overlaid with mythological and allegorical allusions. This volume traces Cross's artistic trajectory through all stages of his prolific career and situates his masterful approach to color and light within the broader context of the European avant-garde of his time. In addition, it examines the painter's anarchist sympathies and the political dimensions of his depictions of utopian sceneries. Exhibition: Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany (17.11.2018-17.02.2019).

"In 1891 Henri-Edmond Cross was one of the first painters who decided to settle down on the coast of southern France. As Maurice Denis remembered: 'In this northerner's pale eyes there shone all the brilliant light of the Midi.' Surrounded by gloriously beautiful nature, Cross devoted himself to his art, which attests to a marvelous conquest of color. His development leads from the austere portraits of his early period to intensely colored nudes depicted in leisurely abandon in Mediterranean landscapes. This catalog retraces Cross's career in its entirety, focusing on the artist's growing command of color in its astoundingly infinite variations and highlighting the painter's role in the liberation of color at the dawn of the twentieth century." --publisher's description, dust jacket

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