L'Orage (The Storm).
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Title |
L'Orage (The Storm). |
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Creator |
Richier, Germaine (French sculptor and draftsman, 1904-1959) |
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Date |
1947-1948 |
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Cultural Context |
French
European
Western European |
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Subject |
Statues
Men |
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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) |
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Material |
Bronze (metal)
Metal |
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Technique |
Metalworking
Casting (process)
Sculpting |
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Work Type |
Sculpture
Statues
Bronzes (objects)
Metalwork |
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Repository |
Musée National d'Art Moderne (Paris, France)
Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France)
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France) |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.73, fig.36) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Cliché Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. © ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2000. (1980/814) |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 826-28.jpg |
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Rating |
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