Multiplication Of Forms, Oil On Canvas

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Height

54.0 cm

Width

73.0 cm

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Description

Expansion of forms
Oil on canvas
Transposed into plastic terms, the aspects of aquatic plant life, this action of the forces which create the reliefs, the outlines of the landscape, the incessant work which models, digs, are not necessarily linked according to what the appearances of reality tell us. propose. This means that the transposition of a certain natural reality will be very largely conditioned by rhythms which emanate from the writer (from the painter) and which link him more intimately to the very actions of this permanent life. Links not only visual, therefore, but can we say, almost carnal: where the spasms of the sun, its innumerable legions, the lakes of night and the living water of fire are the mirrors of another more obscure and evil life. name which interests the painter through what his gaze records. BEYER's painting is part of this new perception of the surrounding world that we tend, too often, to baptize abstract, because the work is not immediately identifiable. Lucien BEYER was part of this team of the “Témoignage” group whose animator was Marcel MICHAUX and from which only stars emerged, some of the most specific figures of an art both contemporary in its ambitions and French in its measure.

René BRETEAU, who was the first to bring these artists together, noted some fond memories of his first meeting with Bertholle, Beyer, Le Moal, Manessier, Etienne Martin, Stahly. I opened a shop in rue des Canettes, at 9. I displayed craftsmanship, works by school mates and my work there. It was sad. The son of the potter Mayor BEYER came every day to give me his time, we spoke little, he was never talkative, me either. He, knew young people, wanted to make me meet them; he knew that I would like them… One evening, we left rue des Canettes for rue du Pot-de-fer. At the end of a very moving old courtyard, in a very dilapidated old house, we passed an open door on a heap of stones, of woods and canvases which hung us all over in the dark… That night perhaps I began to hope and believe again. Early in the morning, I said we were going to show what they had done. I came back to rue des Canettes to take care of it. I cleared my shop and gave them the picture rails for unforgettable success… The rue des Canettes was very crowded in 1938, the rue Bonaparte in 1939. Then came the war and the dispersal. »Later, in addition to his participation in the Salon de Mai, at the Surindépendants, BEYER, was to exhibit at the Galerie Jeanne BUCHER, at the same time as Reichel, de Staël, Chapoval, Chauvin, Lanskoy, Singier, etc. But, if his activity as an artist is intense, his participation in events or exhibitions since then has been almost zero. Also, a retrospective of thirty years of painting is it not only justified today, but really essential to finally measure the extent of a work well situated in the context of its time. Modern painting certainly, by its tempos, its freedoms, its in-depth perception of French life, we would say, for its balance, its scholarly harmonies, its smoothness. We can sometimes think of Hubert Robert, or better still of Claude Gellé in his sober and ample architectural cuts that shape areas of light, distribute plans for aquatic and plant activities, or even Poussin, Poussin des enchanted foliage, in front of these superb and generous deployments of greenery, sometimes deeply anchored in the folds of the night, sometimes nicely offered to the festivals of the sun in continuous and broad movements. It is a nervous painting, abundant and rapid, with graphic webs wandering in space; it translates smells, moments, an intense and active perception of sight at its vital stage.

Material
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Unknown
Origin
France
Item location
Le Havre , France
Period
Unknown
Designer
Bonaparte
Condition
Used

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