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Title
L'Orage
(The
Storm)
.
Creator
Richier, Germaine (French sculptor and draftsman, 1904-1959)
Date
1947-1948
Cultural Context
French
European
Western European
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Statues
Bronzes (objects)
Metalwork
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Front views
Men (male humans)
Subject
Sculpture
Metalwork
Men
Description
"
Having
originally
been
taught
by a
pupil
of
Rodin
and by the
Paris-based
sculptor
Antoine
Bourdelle
,
Richier
produced
work
in a
classical
vein
before
the
Second
World
War
.
After
the
war
her
work
changed
markedly
. Her
figures
appeared
traumatized
.
Often
they
seemed
to be
emerging
from a
larval
condition
. Their
limbs
looked
strangely
amphibian
.
(Caption
,
p.73)
; "In that
year
[1955]
another
French
sculptor
,
Germaine
Richier
,
achieved
considerable
critical
impact
in
London
with an
exhibition
at the
Hanover
Gallery
. The
'masculine'
qualities
of her
bronzes
-
their
unabashed
dialogue
with
Rodin's
full-scale
figures
, their
rugged
,
scarred
surfaces
and
violent
deformations
-
troubled
critics
, in
Britain
as in
France
, not
least
because
of
set
assumptions
about
the
imagery
expected
of
women
artists
.
However
, the
work
Richier
produced
in the
late
1940s
and
early
1950s
possibly
had a
greater
formal
impact
on
others
than that of
Giacometti
. The
latter's
angst
could
be
appropriated
, but
hardly
his
style
. By
contrast
,
Richier's
morbid
allegory
, and the
anti-humanist
implications
of her
animal
and
insect
imagery
, had
some
take-up
in the
spiky
,
skeletal
forms
of
British
sculptors
such
as
Lynn
Chadwick
,
Reg
Butler
, and
Eduardo
Paolozzi.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.72-74)
Material
Bronze (metal)
Metal
Technique
Metalworking
Casting (process)
Sculpting
Work Type
Sculpture
Statues
Bronzes (objects)
Metalwork
Repository
Musée National d'Art Moderne (Paris, France)
Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France)
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France)
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.73, fig.36)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Cliché Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. © ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2000. (1980/814)
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-28.jpg
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