The six painters brought together in this catalogue\u2014Jean Bazaine, Roger Bissi\u00e8re, Elvire Jan, Jean Le Moal, Alfred Manessier, and Gustave Singier\u2014never actually formed a cohesive group as such, as were the Impressionists, Futurists, or Surrealists, for example. They never claimed to share a common aesthetic position and they never published any manifesto stating their aims. They were basically just friends: they hung around together, often spending holidays together and worked in close contact with one another.<\/p>\n
After 1945, free of the influences of Cubism and Surrealism, they did in fact find themselves all on the same trajectory: the search for a strictly non-figurative path between representational and purely abstract art. Underlying this stance was the need to find a means of expressing the emotions aroused by natural phenomena, especially the play of light, which each artist according to his own sensibility tried to render as movement, shaft-like effects, reflections, and translucencies.\u00a0During the four decades after World War II, in most cases interest in their works began to wane in the face of the growing success of American painting, to the point of being unjustly overlooked by critics and museums alike. The time has come to rediscover them.<\/p>\n
Most of the artworks in the catalogue come from a Swiss collection carefully built up by a discerning art enthusiast, who fell in love with the work of these artists at an early stage in their careers. The exhibition associated with this catalogue includes around a hundred works, some of which are extremely large. This is a travelling exhibition and will be held at the Mus\u00e9e Granet in Aix-en-Provence, the Kunstmuseum-Picasso in M\u00fcnster, and the Mus\u00e9e La Piscine in Roubaix, between autumn 2018 and winter 2020.<\/p>\n
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Florian Rodari\u00a0<\/strong>has both a literary and art historical background. Following seven years at the Cabinet des Estampes in Geneva, he was appointed director of Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019\u00c9lys\u00e9ein Lausanne from 1979 to 1983. He is now an independent exhibition organizer and collaborates with museums in Switzerland and throughout the world. He is the author of numerous publications and has gathered his writings on etching into a single book, L\u2019univers comme alphabet\u00a0<\/em>(Gallimard, 2014).<\/p>\n Natalie Adamson\u00a0<\/strong>graduated from the University of Melbourne and is now reader in the Faculty of Art History at St Andrews University (Scotland). Her research focuses on twentieth-century European art, French painting in the post-1945 period in particular. Her main publications are: Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the \u00c9cole de Paris, 1944\u20131964 <\/em>(2009);\u00a0Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arri\u00e8re-Garde: Defining Modern and Traditional in France, 1900\u20131960<\/em>, in collaboration with Toby Norris (2009); Material Imagination: Postwar European Art, 1946\u20131971<\/em>, edited with Steven Harris (2016).<\/p>\n Ma\u00eflis <\/strong>Favre\u00a0<\/strong>graduated in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Geneva, where she is studying for a PhD with a research project on \u201cLe Corbusier et l\u2019exposition.\u201d She was in charge of conservation at the Centre Pompidou\/Mus\u00e9e national d’Art moderne – Centre de cr\u00e9ation industrielle from 2013 to 2016 and was assistant organizer of the Le Corbusier, Mesures de l\u2019homme\u00a0<\/em>exhibition (2015). She also helped organize various exhibitions in Switzerland and France. She is currently involved in research on non-figurative glass art in collaboration with the Jean and Suzanne Planque Foundation.<\/p>\n Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat\u00a0<\/strong>was born in Paris, where he still lives and has long worked for R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux and the Institut National d\u2019Histoire de l\u2019Art. He is the author of a work on Seurat (Skira) and another on Nicolas de Sta\u00ebl (\u00e9ditions Hazan). He has written numerous essays on modern and contemporary painting for specialist magazines and a similar number on twentieth-century writers, such as Marcel Proust, Giorgio Bassani, and Philippe Jaccottet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The six painters brought together in this catalogue\u2014Jean Bazaine, Roger Bissi\u00e8re, Elvire Jan, Jean Le Moal, Alfred Manessier, and Gustave Singier\u2014never actually formed a cohesive group as such, as were the Impressionists, Futurists, or Surrealists, for example. They never claimed to share a common aesthetic position and they never published any manifesto stating their aims.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21979,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[59],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17522","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-modern-art","7":"disponibilita-si","8":"description-off","10":"first","11":"outofstock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/17522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=17522"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=17522"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=17522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}