Result of the research : 'lyrique'
DE L'ART ANCIEN AFRICAIN, DE L'ETHNOLOGIE ET DU MUSEE: POUR UN RECENTREMENT DE L'ESTHETIQUE...
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commencement était la nuit. Une longue nuit pour l'esthétique
africaine. Ce fut le règne sans partage du musée dit «de séries»,
véritable vitrine du colonialisme, de confession évolutionniste et dont
l'approche contextualiste célébrait l'Etrange, chantait l'Aventure et
la Science. A cette époque point d'« objets », que des curiosités,
trésors de guerre et pièces de laboratoires de chevronnés «
Civilisateurs ». Il n'était pas rare alors, de voir des sculptures
côtoyer dans les vitrines : cornes, peaux de bêtes et autres feuilles
de palmier. Puis, il y eut le regard affûté d'une jeune génération
d'artistes particulièrement douée et par ailleurs cruellement blasée,
en quête de médecine pour un art européen las de son académisme figé.
Cette génération vit dans ce fouillis les moyens d'une rédemption...
Une
certaine révolution est venue corriger l'évidente injustice, consacrant
depuis le siècle dernier des expositions à caractère esthétique pour la
production africaine. Désormais, les objets, dans une dramaturgie
suggérée par les seules qualités plastiques, invitent à un rapport
nouveau. Exit la surabondance, la cacophonie et le "meurtre du vrai"
que génère la tentative bancale de reconstitution de l'ailleurs
fantasmé. Ici on ne rejoue pas le film de l'heureuse rencontre avortée
entre "civilisés" et "primitifs". Nous avons les vrais Stars que sont
les objets, mais d'une
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L’abstraction lyrique est un mouvement
artistique qui se développe à Paris après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. À
cette époque, regroupés sous la bannière de l’École de Paris, des
artistes comme Hans Hartung, Jean Bazaine, Roger Bissière, Pierre
Soulages, Nicolas de Staël appliquent les premiers, les leçons de
Vassily Kandinsky. Nourris de l’art de ce dernier considéré comme l’un
des pères de l’abstraction, ils découvrent la liberté et l’émotion
qu’ils opposent à l’abstraction géométrique.african art / art africain / primitive art / art primitif / arts
premiers / art gallery / art tribal / tribal art / l'oeil et la main /
galerie d'art premier / Paris / masques africains / mask /Agalom /
Armand Auxiètre / www.african-paris.com / www.agalom.com
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L’abstraction lyrique est un mouvement artistique qui se développe à Paris après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. À cette époque, regroupés sous la bannière de l’École de Paris, des artistes comme Hans Hartung, Jean Bazaine, Roger Bissière, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël appliquent les premiers, les leçons de Vassily Kandinsky. Nourris de l’art de ce dernier considéré comme l’un des pères de l’abstraction, ils découvrent la liberté et l’émotion qu’ils opposent à l’abstraction géométrique.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Born 26 August 1880(1880-08-26)
Rome, Italy1
Died 9 November 1918 (aged 38)
Paris, France
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire Rome, August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918, Paris) was a French poet, writer and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother.
Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word "surrealism" and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1917, used as the basis for a 1947 opera).
Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died at age 38, a victim of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
Life
Born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki and raised speaking French, among other languages, he emigrated to France and adopted the name Guillaume Apollinaire. His mother, born Angelica Kostrowicka, was a Polish noblewoman born near Navahrudak (now in Belarus). Apollinaire's father is unknown but may have been Francesco Flugi d'Aspermont, a Swiss Italian aristocrat
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Edvard Munch
Born 12 December 1863(1863-12-12)
Ådalsbruk in Løten, Norway
Died 23 January 1944 (aged 80)
Oslo, Norway
Nationality Norwegian
Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈmuŋk], 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, and melancholy.
Biography
Youth
Edvard Munch was born in a rustic farmhouse in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, Norway to Christian Munch, the son of a prominent priest. Christian was a doctor and medical officer who married Laura Cathrine Bjølstad, a woman half his age, in 1861. Edvard had an older sister, Johanne Sophie (born 1862), and three younger siblings: Peter Andreas (born 1865), Laura Cathrine (born 1867), and Inger Marie (born 1868). Both Sophie and Edvard appear to have inherited their artistic talent from their mother. Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob
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Africa under colonial rule, 1880-1935
Research Director
Professor A. A. Boahen (Ghana)
In February 1976, in Nigeria, a man was arrested at a police checkpoint between Ibadan and Lagos. He was carrying two bags full of bronze sculptures and wood on suspicion of having stolen it affirmât well as the owner. Upon inquiry, the man telling the truth. Recently converted to Islam, he lived and worked in Ibadan at a community center. The effigies of deities carved Yoruba he was carrying had been brought in Ibadan, like many others, by migrant workers to satisfy the spiritual aspirations of these artisans, shopkeepers, civil servants and other migrant workers in their temporary residence. But the leader of the community, having converted to Islam, began in turn to convert their neighbors. Converted in his turn, the suspect heard himself served as symbols of their ancient faith were to disappear to allow the community center to become a dwelling worthy of the spiritual presence of Allah. Unable to consider destroying these objects, he resolved to return to his village, place of origin, where they have since been resettled.
This incident is a perfect example of the evolution of cultural forms and their concrete manifestation and at the same time, the survival or the renewal of cultural values from specific forms of domination, whether of a religious or more clearly social. What remained true in 1976 was even more common during this period particularly dramatic external domination of Africa, which saw the submission of an entire people, its social
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