La Toute Jeune Fille (Very Young Girl).
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Title |
La Toute Jeune Fille (Very Young Girl). |
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Creator |
Fautrier, Jean (French painter, sculptor, printmaker, 1898-1964) |
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Date |
1942 |
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Cultural Context |
French
European
Western European |
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Style/Period |
Art Informel |
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Subject |
Mixed media
Abstract paintings |
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Description |
"Such barely recognizable human images were the outcome of a dialogue with materials. Layers of thick paste were applied to an absorbent sheet of rag paper laid on a canvas, with a layer of colored paste and varnish finally added to the confection." (Caption, p.17); "After the war France was obsessed with épuration (purging or cleansing). This desire to expunge memories of the Nazi Occupation in the country manifested itself in the ruthless hounding out of Nazi collaborators. This climate also bred existential philosophies emphasizing moral probity and the dilemma of personal freedom, as developed by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Its artistic spin-off was a trend established in a series of exhibitions at René Drouin's gallery from 1943 onwards. […] The painter Jean Fautrier's Otages (Hostages) exhibition at Drouin's in October 1945 was one of the first signs of this new artistic direction. Fautrier had been held briefly by the Gestapo in 1943, on suspicion of Resistance activities, and, while in hiding at a sanatorium at Châtenay-Malabry on the outskirts of Paris, had produced a series of heads and torsos morbidly inspired by sounds from the surrounding woods where the Occupying forces regularly tortured and executed prisoners. The disturbing pulverization of the body involved in these images (which in some instances produces a perversely erotic effect due to the powdery surfaces) marks a move towards the informel - an aesthetic of brute materiality and formlessness." (Excerpt, pp.16-18) |
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Material |
Paste (adhesive)
Rag paper
Paper (fiber product)
Varnish
Canvas |
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Work Type |
Paintings
Abstract paintings
Abstract works
Mixed media |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.17, fig.7) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Lauros-Giraudon. © ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2000. |
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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 826-30.jpg |
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