Jacques Villon His Graphic Art

Author : Jacques Villon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Download or read book Jacques Villon written by Jacques Villon and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Villon (1875-1963), cubist printmaker and painter, was th eldest of a remarkable trio of twentieth-century French artists. His brother Raymond Duchamp-Villon, who died at the end of World War I, has long held a major place in the history of modern sculpture; his younger brother Marcel Duchamp (d. 1969) is widely regarded as having reshaped the definition of art for the second half of the twentieth century. Villon, the first of the Duchamp brothers to become an artist, was a reticent, intellectual, and extremely private man. The international acclaim that he received in the years following World War II did not divert him from the careful research that had characterized his work from the beginning of the century. Through the decades until his death at the age of 88, Villon continued to refine both his technique and his philosophy of pictorial and coloristic organization. The one hundred sixty-five central drawings, etchings, and paintings which are illustrated and explained in this volume formed the core of 1975 centennial retrospective exhibitions of Jacques Villon in Rouen and Paris, France, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Purchase, New York. The analysis of these works, which here includes reproduction of more than one hundred additional works by Villon and his brothers, traces the evolution of the artist's style and iconography from his student days to his death, from early cartoons to the oil paintings which symbolized for him the order of the universe--dust jacket.