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Germaine Richier
Encyclopedia of World Biography; 647 Words Germaine Richier The French sculptor Germaine Richier (1904-1959) explored the metamorphic dimensions of...felt structure of things. Born in Grans near Arles, Germaine Richier enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Montpellier in...
Richier, Germaine
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists; ; 400 Words Richier, Germaine (1902–59). French sculptor. She had a traditional training as a carver, working under Bourdelle from 1925 to 1929...
20th-Century Art in the Tuileries.
Art in America; Dec 1, 1998; ; 659 Words ...Henri Laurens, Etienne Martin, Henry Moore, Germaine Richier and David Smith. The Rodin bronzes, which include...place of Henri Edouard Lombard's l'Ete, and Germaine Richier's l'Echiquier, grand (1959) will edge out...
Nancy Evans at Dangerous Curve.(Keeping Body and Soul Together)
Art in America; Mar 1, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...contemporary spin on the haunting bronze figures of postwar Swiss artist Germaine Richier, who similarly used plant material as her source. Less angst-ridden than Richier's, Evans's creatures--like certain bronzes by Kiki Smith--seem...
When Small Is Beautiful
Jerusalem Post; Sep 19, 1997; ; 700+ Words ...the Najar family) was produced by French sculptress Germaine Richier some 10 years later. While Hepworth's sculpture...intention to sculpt an "abstract vision of beauty," both Richier's "Drill" with its peeling, fragmented surfaces...
The Rape of Artemisia
Jerusalem Post; Jun 7, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...invitation, in Britain. Thanks to Mary Garrard, Germaine Greer and a host of other subsequent feminist writers...will be sold July 1 (350,000.000-450,000). Germaine Richier's's menacing black bronze Walking Man (80,000...
César
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art; ; 500 Words ...like creatures. In spite of the materials from which they were made, these had closer affinities with the work of Germaine Richier than with the California school of Junk sculpture. His use of ready-made commercial objects was shared by several...
Marino Marini
Encyclopedia of World Biography; 700+ Words ...that he visited his wife's birthplace, the Swiss Canton of Ticino, and reunited with old friends like Wotruba, Germaine Richier, Giacometti, Haller and Banninger. Marini produced several bronze and plaster portraits during this time, and...
pounds 5m art fund quest to bring best to our galleries; Terry Grimley looks at the background to a West Midlands contemporary art bonanza.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England); Nov 6, 2007; 700+ Words ...Georgio Morandi, a small and early piece by the Catalan artist Antoni Tapies, a sculpture by the French artist Germaine Richier, a painting by the German abstract artist Hans Hartung. The collection of works on paper is more cosmopolitan...
Nicola Tyson (exhibition).
Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine; Jul 1, 1996; ; 700+ Words ...recorded in a series of pencil sketches that display the extravagance of her imagination and draw obvious comparison to Germaine Richier, Hans Bellmer, even Francis Bacon. In the manner of Bacon, bodily orifices are, indeed, turned inside out...
Dorothy Cross, Ceal Floyer, Cornelia Parker, Helen Robertson and Bridget Smith (exhibition).
Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine; Jul 1, 1996; ; 700+ Words ...recorded in a series of pencil sketches that display the extravagance of her imagination and draw obvious comparison to Germaine Richier, Hans Bellmer, even Francis Bacon. In the manner of Bacon, bodily orifices are, indeed, turned inside out...
Medals that break the mould
The Independent - London; Aug 27, 1994; ; 700+ Words ...this country. At the time, the British medal was suffering a 40-year eclipse. The stick-like human forms of Germaine Richier and Alberto Giacometti, breaking the conventions of figure modelling, helped to break the mould of medal design...
Obituary: Alan Roger
The Independent - London; Aug 1, 1997; ; 700+ Words ...Keith Grant, whose visits to Dundonnell certainly influenced his later work. He owned an important sculpture by Germaine Richier, but his patronage of the work of the ceramicists Lucie Rie and Hans Coper was the most significant. He commissioned...
Arts: Post-war Paris: where's the beef? Many critics who've seen Paris: Capital of the Arts 1900-1968 think that it's downhill all the way after 1940. Kevin Jackson begs to differ
The Independent - London; Jan 29, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...a whole slew of Fifties and Sixties matter - the relatively conventional (in context) likes of Bram van Velde, Germaine Richier and Yves Klein, followed by a bunch of slick op art by Vasarely and co, and a scruffy medley of politicised poster...
Monochrome narcissism
Jerusalem Post; Aug 24, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...a variety of bronze casts. Included are several full figures (similar in pose and surface treatment to works by Germaine Richier in the Hechter Collection one floor below); a cache of small portrait
Obituary: Cesar
The Independent - London; Dec 9, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...showed expressionist leanings. His work also betrayed the influence of Picasso, Duchamp, Brancusi, Giacometti and Germaine Richier. Indeed, Cesar's new direction paralleled the Arte Povera movement in Italy and that of France's own matieristes...
Freedom in Paris // Exhibit shows how black artists found a creative haven abroad
Chicago Sun-Times; Aug 4, 1996; ; 700+ Words ...only other artist of the seven whose work draws upon African imagery, was originally influenced by French sculptor Germaine Richier's expressive surrealist style, with its hybrid human figures. Chase-Riboud's "The Last Supper" (1958...
Valencia, la ciudad de las esculturas. (exhibición al aire libre; Valencia, España)(TT: Valencia, the city of sculptures) (TA: open-air exhibition; Valencia, Spain)
Tribuna de Actualidad; Jan 26, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...Zadkin, Gilioli, Gargallo, Julio Gonzlez, Fernand Lger, Raymond Mason, Claude y Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Germaine Richier, Lynn Chadwick, Jean Dubuffet, Jacques Lipchtiz, Roberto Matta, Marta Pan, Takis, Niki de Saint-Phalle...
Easy does it... delicate operation as Centaur makes its big entrance at gallery.
Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England); Jan 30, 2008; 478 Words ...chimera by artists Hans Arp, Umberto Boccioni, Max Ernst, Jacob Epstein, Julio Gonzalez, Louise Bourgeois and Germaine Richier. Curator Stephen Feeke said: It is very difficult to get a number of very famous pieces of work by very famous...
Immortality in crushed cars CESAR 1921-1998
The Independent - London; Dec 13, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...commitment to sculpture (1945-47), Cesar first found his expressive vocabulary, which was initially closer to Germaine Richier than to the emaciated reductionism of Giacometti. In works like The Cock, with its obvious French symbolism, he...
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