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ENG Perspicacious FINAL PDF for WEBSITE EPMA ART FEATURE, ISSUE I, MARCH 2021 Welcome to Perspicacious: Putting Art in Perspective, an EPMA periodical created to enlighten and encourage conversations about art. There are many paths to understanding artworks; out of which there is always room for debate and discussion. The articles presented in this periodical are not meant to be better than or describe the art on view in the museum, but rather it is to put the art in an historical or social context enhancing the perspective of the viewer. As such, these essays pay careful attention to and analysis of primary sources, alongside archival research in order to provide a more in-depth discourse. Look for Perspicacious in conjunction with major exhibitions and installations. T R A T C A R T S B A F O A T N I D IR T SP HE L I NA NTERNATIO Since our closure due to Covid-19, the El Paso Museum of Art is pivoting to explore new methods of reaching out to our members and patrons. These changes have afforded us the ability to expand our programming virtually as well as in the old-fashioned sense of a journalistic article. It is through this outreach that we hope to come together over shared opportunities to read, learn, and view. Join us in our first installment of Perspicacious as we explore the history behind the art in our current exhibition Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art. Rue la Boétie is a short something else was budding crowded street in Paris, and being nurtured. At France. It fits snuggly Galarie 23, a group of abstract between the famed avenue artists presented their des Champs-Élysées and self-titled Cercle et Carré therue due Faubourg- Staint- exhibition and journal. The Honoré, and is only a few exhibition consisted of 130 blocks from the Grand Palais works by forty-six various and the Seine River. Rue la artists, who represented Boétie was once the grounds different mediums and styles, for the Royal Nursery, such as Wassily Kandinsky providing the residences with and Le Corbusier. trees, bushes, and flowers. It is on this street in 1930 that Michel Seuphor. Photo of the participating artists in the group exhibition Cercle et Carré, from left to right: Franciska Clausen, Florence Henri, Manolita Piña de Torres-García, Joaquin Torres-García, Piet Mondriaa, Hans Arp, Pierre Daura, Marcelle Cahn, Sophie Taeuber- Arp, Michel Seuphor, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Vera Idelson, Luigi Russolo, Nina Kandinsky, Georges Vantongerloo, Jean Gorin. 1930. Black and White Photograph. 180 x 238. Archive of Michel Seuphor. Collection City of Antwerp, Letterenhuis. tg: lhph: 47458. Beyond Paris and Rue the National Socialist la Boétie, Europe started German Workers’ Party feeling the consequences of (Nationalsozialistische economic depression and Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or the rise of Totalitarianism in NSDAP), commonly known as Russia, Germany, Italy, and the Nazi Party, began to use Spain. Concurrently, United the term Entartete Kunst or States Secretary of State, Degenerate Art, a derogatory Frank B. Kellogg, and France’s name in which to describe Minister of Foreign Affairs, Modern Art. Their distaste for Aristide Briand also sensed modernist art was linked to the mounting political their animosity of the Weimar tensions that come with Republics’ administration, for economic hardship. In an whom they blamed attempt to prevent another Germany’s economic and World War, both men political hardships. The Nazi introduced an international party argued that the Weimar agreement in 1929. In the government’s support of agreement, commonly Avant-Garde, Expressionism, known as the Kellogg-Briand and Abstract Art degraded Pact, signers resolved not to society and mocked use war as a method for Christianity. As the NSDAP solving conflicts. However, rose to power under the Third there were no provisions in Reich, all artwork in Europe the treaty designed to came under their scrutiny. enforce it or punish those who did not follow the In the midst of all this, agreement. In 1933, Germans Cercle et Carré originated in elected Adolf Hitler as 1929 as an artist association Chancellor and by 1939 founded by Michel Seuphor Europe and the rest of the and Joaquin Torres Garcia, World were engrossed in the with the goals of connecting struggles of a Second World Abstract artists and War. Consequently, promoting new techniques modernist art was an and styles. Two prominent unexpected casualty of WWII. artists, Fernand Léger and Willi Baumeister, were both In the 1920s and 30s part of the Cercle et Carré the German political party, artist association and exhibition on Rue La Boétie. Léger and Cubist artists. Baumeister became friends Known for his personal through their shared style of Cubism, called interests; each was influential Tubism, he focused on in their own right. cylindrical and conical shapes using primary colors Fernand Léger, born in along with green, black, and Argentan, Normandy, France white. While many of his in 1881 worked as an paintings seem to be absent architectural draftsman until of subjects, others often he began to seriously study appeared to depict painting at the Ecole des Arts robot-like characters. Décoratifs and the Académic Julian. After years of study Baumeister, born in and experimentation, Léger Stuttgart, Germany in 1889, emerged as one of the foremost trained as a decorative painter Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955) Abstract, 1937. Watercolor and gouache on paper 10 3/4 x 14 5/16 inches, 24 x 30 inches (frame). Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; The Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, Gift of Alfred H. Holbrook. GMOA 1945.60 Willi Baumeister (German, 1890-1966) Tennisspieler II, 1935. Lithograph on paper. Edition of 50. 12 ¼ x15 ¾ inches (image), 17 x 23 x 1 ¼ inches (frame). Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Pierre Daura Center Fund. GMOA 2013.97. Photo courtesy of EPMA and attended the Royal During these years, he Württemberg Academy of developed an interest in the Fine Arts. He served in prehistoric and archaic art World War I while still taking which inspired artwork based part in art exhibitions. on organic forms and Through his work in symbols, an ideogram of typography and commercial sorts. This style can be seen in design, he gained an his “Tennisspieler II”, 1935. appointment as a professor of typography, commercial Although not everyone graphics, and fabric printing appreciated or understood at the Municipal Applied Arts Baumeister and Léger’s work. School in Frankfurt. In 1927 he Under the Third Reich, they presented his first solo were seen as targets and exhibition in Paris. their art was designated as Pierre Daura (American, b. Spain, 1896–1976). Designs for Cercle et Carré logo, 1929 Pen and ink on paper, 9 11/16 x 6 inches (image), 23 x 17 inches (frame). Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Martha Randolph Daura. GMOA 2011.125 Entartete Kunst, or Klimt, and Modigliani, were Degenerate Art. Many pieces deemed degenerate or of modernist art from subversive and confiscated or museums, galleries, and even seized by the German personal collections, some government. Some of these created by well-known artists works were displayed as part such as Picasso, Chagall, Klee, of an exhibition also called Entartete Kunst. The Nelson Rockefeller’s lavish exhibition presented the art New York apartment. He as propaganda in order to settled into a professorship at demonstrate how modernist Yale University, where he art degraded German continued to explore and culture. Other works were expand his style. He focused sold, traded, or stolen by on figures and objects Nazi Party officials or juxtaposed with freely collaborators for their own arranged bands of color, all of art collections. However, which were outlined in black. other artworks suffered a Léger once commented that worse fate. These works were he was inspired by the neon destroyed, lost to history and lights of New York City. subsequently to the World. Even the gallery space on Baumeister, a German Rue la Boétie felt the grasp of citizen, struggled more than the Third Reich. During the Léger. He was dismissed from occupation of France, the his professorship and several building was requisitioned as of his paintings were shown in a sub-office to the Ministry of the National Socialist Public Enlightenment and exhibition, Entartete Kunst. Propaganda, and the Recorded in the inventory of artworks stored there were confiscated art, a group of 7 confiscated paintings by Baumeister, including one called After Cercle et Carré, “Tennisspieler”, sold for just Léger traveled to the United $45.00; other works were States, where he was able to destroyed or lost. Baumeister escape the upheaval of eventually left Germany for German-occupied France. Switzerland where he was Once in the United States, able to safely practice his art. the newly opened Museum After WWII he continued of Modern Art (MoMA) in New working toward uniting York City exhibited a international modern artists collection of Léger’s works. through the development of Léger won respect and rose publications, artist in popularity with the upper associations, and exhibitions. echelons of society, even to be commissioned to decorate Fernand Léger and the international significance Willi Baumeister’s impact on of abstract art and can international art is be viewed via YouTube: demonstrated through their https://youtu.be/YTOqkJkib2 talent, perseverance, and M. Rue la Boétie also remains devotion to create art as a nursery of creativity as it despite facing the most currently houses serval art hostile of circumstances. An galleries and a concert hall. incarnation of the original Cercle et Carré exhibition is now on view at the El Paso Museum of Art which exemplifies “Here, at 21 rue La Boetie, Paul Rosenberg set up his art gallery between 1910 and 1940.
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