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| Just six-and-a-half years after the Wright Brothers first achieved flight, this Great Aviation Week in Lyon “took place in front of one hundred thousand spectators” (Affiches d'Aviation, p. 33). The numerous biplanes and novel monoplane architectures in this image testify to the excitement, creativity and ambition of the new era. The year 1910 was notable for a proliferation of aviation firsts and failures – including the first seaplane flight, and the first experiments with airborne weaponry. |
Charles TICHON Semaine d'Aviation de Lyon 1910
David DELLEPIANE Côte d'Azur 1910
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| An understudy of Chéret, David Dellepiane returned from Paris to his childhood home of Marseilles, where he took fine advantage of the Provençal light to create dreamy Impressionist portraits of the Côte d'Azur. This, one of his most famous posters for the region, sees him emulating Renoir and Sisley – but on the far right, the lady with the parasol is rendered with a nod to British Modernism. Two other posters, for Antibes and Grasse, have nearly the same composition: just a slight difference in the trees, and in the artistic mode of presentation. |
Madeleine LEMAIRE A Young Beauty
Madeleine Lemaire, nom d'artiste de Jeanne Magdelaine Colle (1854-1928) est une artiste peintre et aquarelliste française de genre académique.
Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928) was a French painter specialized in elegant genre works, and flowers. Robert de Montesquiou said she was The Empress of the Roses. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy. She herself held a salon where she received high society in her hôtel particulier on the Rue de Monceau.
Madeleine LEMAIRE Fairies
Madeleine Lemaire, nom d'artiste de Jeanne Magdelaine Colle (1854-1928) est une artiste peintre et aquarelliste française de genre académique.
Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928) was a French painter specialized in elegant genre works, and flowers. Robert de Montesquiou said she was The Empress of the Roses. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy. She herself held a salon where she received high society in her hôtel particulier on the Rue de Monceau.
Gustave COURBET Deer in the Forest 1868
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) est un peintre et sculpteur français, chef de file du courant réaliste.
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.
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