ARTISTS
Summer Show
Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents its Summer Show: an expansive new group exhibition for the summer season. Amidst aestival motifs and a brilliant colour palette, the exhibition surveys some of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artistic aesthetics and their ongoing influence on the British artists of today.
The display at 8 Golden Square comprises a selection of paintings. prints, sculptures and works on paper by artists Ivor Abrahams, Larry Bell, Georges Braque, Patrick Caulfield, Paul Cézanne, Harold Cohen, Robyn Denny, Robert Dukes, Sam Francis, Alex Katz, Henri Matisse, Bruce McLean, Robert Motherwell, Ben Nicholson, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, William Tillyer and Marc Vaux.
Matisse’s Fauvism precipitated dramatic subversions within contemporary artistic discourse. Such vivid colours and boldly experimental forms served as a profound counterpoint to academic traditionalism. As opposed to faithfully depicting reality, Matisse endeavoured to evoke the very essence of the real. His works ventured into the indefinite realms of perception, interiority and emotive expression. Take Patitcha and Patitcha. Masque (1947)), a striking pairing of aquatints which affirm the potency of simplified form in representing the human subject. With comparable influence, George Braque’s Cubism made a radical confrontation of conventional means of depiction. Through the deconstruction, fragmentation and reconfiguration of objective reality, Braque interrogated matters of spatiality and, once again, the idiosyncrasies of perception. Braque’s later series of representational Oiseaux, such as L’oiseau et son ombre III (1961), were a source of inspiration for the acclaimed poet Saint-John Perse. Here, Braque pulls the bird’s flight into sharp relief by tracing a geometric shadow in contrasting black. The Oiseaux on display exemplify Braque’s capacity to assemble evocative compositions in a refined palette.
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Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents its Summer Show: an expansive new group exhibition for the summer season. Amidst aestival motifs and a brilliant colour palette, the exhibition surveys some of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artistic aesthetics and their ongoing influence on the British artists of today.
The display at 8 Golden Square comprises a selection of paintings. prints, sculptures and works on paper by artists Ivor Abrahams, Larry Bell, Georges Braque, Patrick Caulfield, Paul Cézanne, Harold Cohen, Robyn Denny, Robert Dukes, Sam Francis, Alex Katz, Henri Matisse, Bruce McLean, Robert Motherwell, Ben Nicholson, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, William Tillyer and Marc Vaux.
Matisse’s Fauvism precipitated dramatic subversions within contemporary artistic discourse. Such vivid colours and boldly experimental forms served as a profound counterpoint to academic traditionalism. As opposed to faithfully depicting reality, Matisse endeavoured to evoke the very essence of the real. His works ventured into the indefinite realms of perception, interiority and emotive expression. Take Patitcha and Patitcha. Masque (1947)), a striking pairing of aquatints which affirm the potency of simplified form in representing the human subject. With comparable influence, George Braque’s Cubism made a radical confrontation of conventional means of depiction. Through the deconstruction, fragmentation and reconfiguration of objective reality, Braque interrogated matters of spatiality and, once again, the idiosyncrasies of perception. Braque’s later series of representational Oiseaux, such as L’oiseau et son ombre III (1961), were a source of inspiration for the acclaimed poet Saint-John Perse. Here, Braque pulls the bird’s flight into sharp relief by tracing a geometric shadow in contrasting black. The Oiseaux on display exemplify Braque’s capacity to assemble evocative compositions in a refined palette.
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