![]() Unlike Braques and Picasso who used subdued colors in their Cubist works, Gleizes preferred to work in bright colors. ![]() As he holds a book in that hand by Gleizes's friend Alexandre Mercereau, this may be a portrait of his fellow artist so, we can intuit the town in the background as Cretail.Īlbert Gleizes (1881-1953) always insisted that he was the founder of Cubism. The eye is drawn to a small still life near his right hand - a table holds a spoon, some lemons, and a glass. His right foot rests on a typical Parisian park chair. A strong series of diagonals anchor the man to the moving hammock while, at the same time, merging him with the landscape. The mobile perspective mimics the back and forth of a swinging hammock. Like every Cubist worthy of the name, Albert Gleizes plays fast and loose with traditional linear perspective - and it works brilliantly. Jerome Moross & John La Touche, lyrics for "Lazy Afternoon," a song written for the 1954 musical The Golden Apple.Įverything in Man in a Hammock means something, so there's a lot to decipher. Georges died at his home in Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy. His paintings are in the collections of numerous major museums are color and sound the United States. That summer Jane Freilicher, Wolf Kahn, Larry Rivers, and Georges all became fast friends at the Cape Code summer school. The composition is similar and so are the colors here Georges has chosen more angular, spiky or, if you look aslant, abstract forms.īefore that, in 1947, he was one of a stellar class that studied with Hans Hoffmann at Provincetown. Georges is be tter known for his allegories and self-portraits but I was taken with Calla Lilies by its echoes (deliberate or by chance) to a famous landscape by the Austrian Gustav Klimt. Jane Frielicher, Wolf Kahn, and Larry Rivers all became fast friends that summer. The American painter Paul Georges (1923-2002) studied with Fernand Leger in Paris from 1949 to 1952 While there he met his future wife Lisette Blumenfeld at the studio of Constantine Brancusi.īefore that, in 1947, he was one of a stellar class that studied with Hans Hoffmann at Provincetown.
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