Download or read book Christopher Le Brun written by Christopher Le Brun and published by Booth-Clibborn. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s, Christopher Le Brun became the major British exponent of an international movement in painting that enabled artists to escape the dominating influence of post-war abstraction. Central to this new aesthetic was a passionate belief in the power of figurative art, the legitimacy of recovering a sense of national traditions, & the re-exploration of narrative. Le Brun's classical yet muscular visual vocabulary -- featuring startling motifs in the form of wings, horses & epic figures -- demonstrates a resilient independence of spirit, one which has brought a unique inventiveness to the arena of 'traditional' painting. Trained at the Slade School of Art, & the Chelsea School of Art in London, Le Brun went on to win a number of awards for his work. He is a trustee of the National Gallery, & in 1996, was elected a member of the Royal Academy. Published to coincide with an exhibition of his work to be held at the Marlborough Fine Art gallery in London, Christopher Le Brun offers a lavish & authoritative survey of the artist's major works to date. An illuminating dialogue with Bryan Robertson, former director of London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, allows Le Brun to discuss the issues & inspirations that have informed his career. The book also gives due recognition to his celebrated work as a printmaker & his recent sculptural work. Includes over 225 illustrations, including excerpts from both sketchbooks & notebooks. Designed by John Morgan.
Download or read book Christopher Le Brun written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hard backed book featuring 32 full colour plates of Christopher Le Brun's paintings, and essays by Barbara Rose and a conversation between Christopher Le Brun, Sir David Chipperfield and Tim Marlow.Published by Windsor Press to accompany the exhibitions Christopher Le Brun: Composer at the Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida and concurrently at Albertz Benda, New York in February 2017.Published in a limited edition of 1,000 copies.
Download or read book Christopher Le Brun written by Christopher Le Brun and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christopher Le Brun written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British artist Christopher Le Brun's latest work features a new series of large scale abstractions, some light in touch and some involving dense accretions of colour and gesture.Following his appearance in many international group exhibitions - such as the influential Zeitgeist exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (1982) - Le Brun became recognised as one of the leading young European painters; he has also been an instrumental public figure in his role since 2011 as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which celebrates its 250th anniversary this year.Accompanying a solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery, London (4 July - 18 August 2018), New Painting shows works that represent a singularly rich moment in his 40-year career. The glowing, scintillating veils of colour in Le Brun's recent oil works on canvas contribute to the constant exchanges of movement, energy, warmth and light occurring throughout this radiant show.Alongside full-colour illustrations, this volume includes a personal response by art historian and writer Ben Street, and an introduction by Nicholas Logsdail that connects Le Brun to significant artists of the modernist era, placing the work within the tradition of late twentieth and early twenty-first century modern painting.Accompanies the exhibition Christopher Le Brun 'New Painting', 4 Jul - 18 Aug 2018, Lisson Gallery, London.
Download or read book Christopher Le Brun written by Christopher Lebrun and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christopher Le Brun written by Christopher Lebrun and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Sovereign Artist written by Wolf Burchard and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the wide artistic production of Louis XIV's most prolific and powerful artist, Charles Le Brun (1619-1690), illustrating the magnificence of his paintings and focusing particularly on the interiors and decorative art works produced according to his designs. In his joint capacities of Premier peintre du roi, director of the Gobelins manufactory and rector of the Acad mie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Le Brun exercised a previously unprecedented influence on the production of the visual arts - so much so that some scholars have repeatedly described him as 'dictator' of the arts in France. The Sovereign Artist explores how Le Brun operated in his diverse fields of activities, linking and juxtaposing his portraiture, history painting and pictorial theory with his designs for architecture, tapestries, carpets and furniture. It argues that Le Brun sought to create a repeatable and easily recognizable visual language associated with Louis XIV, in order to translate the king's political claims for absolute power into a visual form. How he did this is discussed through a series of individual case studies ranging from Le Brun's lost equestrian portrait of Louis XIV, and his involvement in the Querelle du coloris at the Acad mie, to his scheme for 93 Savonnerie carpets for the Grande Galerie at the Louvre, his Histoire du roy tapestry series, his decoration of the now destroyed Escalier des Ambassadeurs at Versailles and the dramatic destruction of the Sun King's silver furniture. One key theme is the relation between the unity of the visual arts, to which Le Brun aspired, and the strong hierarchical distinctions he made between the liberal arts and the mechanical crafts: while his lectures at the Acad mie advocated a visual and conceptual unity in painting and architecture, they were also a means by which he attempted to secure the newly gained status of painting as a liberal art, and therefore to distinguish it from the mechanical crafts which he oversaw the production of at the Gobelins. His artistic and architectural aspirations were comparable to those of his Roman contemporary Gianlorenzo Bernini, summoned to Paris in 1665 to design the Louvre's East fa ade and to create a portrait bust of Louis XIV. Bernini's failure to convince the king and Colbert of his architectural scheme offered new opportunities for Le Brun and his French contemporaries to prove themselves capable of solving the architectural problems of the Louvre and to transform it into a palace appropriate "to the grandeur and the magnificence of the prince who was] to inhabit it" (Jean-Baptiste Colbert to Nicolas Poussin in 1664). The comparison between Le Brun and Bernini not only illustrates how France sought artistic supremacy over Italy during the second half of the 17th century, but further helps to demonstrate how Le Brun himself wanted to be perceived: beyond acting as a translator of the king's artistic ambition, the artist appears to have sought his own sovereign authority over the visual arts.
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