Title

Jacques Villon: Prints 1891-1961.

Venues

Australian National Gallery (22 December 1984 – 24 February 1985)

Date

(1984 – 1985)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Prints.

Curator

Palmer, Tony.

Web address

https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/jacques-villon-pri…

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

The seventy years of Jacques Villon's long working life, from 1891 to 1961, coincided with the development of modern art. When he was in his teens and making his first prints, many artists were pursuing Symbolist themes, seeking their subjects in the imagination and the subconscious. Villon occasionally adopted this idiom but his early work most strongly reflected the satirical approach and social concerns of Toulouse-Lautrec. In the early 1900s Villon turned to the Belle Epoque style, in which artists delighted in the depiction of beautiful women in the elegant fashions of the day. His principal contribution to the development of modern art was in Cubist paintings and prints, made between 1911 and 1914. Here form was simplified into facets and shifting, intersecting planes as time, movement and the illusion of successive action were introduced into his compositions.
Tony Palmer, 1985

[NGA media, 1985].

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