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Tamara de Lempicka 1898-1980 (Taschen Basic Art)

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As the Goddess of the Automobile Age, Tamara de Lempicka stood at the centre of the sophisticated Paris art world of the Twenties and Thirties. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles and the modern metropolis provided not only motifs for her pictures, but also influenced her artistic style. Simultaneously with her career as artist, Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new, self-confident woman and the changing aspects of femininity and masculinity. The same sense of style was reflected in a futuristic cult of speed, domestic design forms promulgated by the Bauhaus, and the dandyism of a George Brummell. Tamara de Lempicka's best-known painting, Self-Portrait, or Tamara in a Green Bugatti, presents the artist as a female dandy brimming with cool elegance. Whether as an Art-Deco artist, a post-Cubist or a Neoclasissist, de Lempicka struck the taste of a cosmopolitan public that found its own image reflected in her work.

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Taschen

Release: February 01, 2001

ISBN: 3822858579

ISBN 13: 9783822858578

Tamara de Lempicka 1898-1980 (Taschen Basic Art)

4.1/5 ( ratings)

As the Goddess of the Automobile Age, Tamara de Lempicka stood at the centre of the sophisticated Paris art world of the Twenties and Thirties. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles and the modern metropolis provided not only motifs for her pictures, but also influenced her artistic style. Simultaneously with her career as artist, Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new, self-confident woman and the changing aspects of femininity and masculinity. The same sense of style was reflected in a futuristic cult of speed, domestic design forms promulgated by the Bauhaus, and the dandyism of a George Brummell. Tamara de Lempicka's best-known painting, Self-Portrait, or Tamara in a Green Bugatti, presents the artist as a female dandy brimming with cool elegance. Whether as an Art-Deco artist, a post-Cubist or a Neoclasissist, de Lempicka struck the taste of a cosmopolitan public that found its own image reflected in her work.

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Taschen

Release: February 01, 2001

ISBN: 3822858579

ISBN 13: 9783822858578

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