{"product_id":"lucie-cousturier-une-artiste-chez-les-neo-impressionnistes","title":"Lucie Cousturier: An artist among the Neo-Impressionists.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eA woman artist and art critic, Lucie Cousturier has developed a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003epersonal and original work in the wake of the neo-impressionist artists. She was born into a wealthy family who owned a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003edoll factory: Les Poupées Brû (named after his father\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLéon Casimir Brû). She was a student of Paul Signac and\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan id=\"js-showResume\" class=\"showResume\"\u003eHenri-Edmond\u003cbr\u003e Cross and painted in a style close to these painters. Married in 1900\u003cbr\u003e to Edmond Cousturier, painter and art critic, she exhibited at the Salon\u003cbr\u003e independents in 1901, then in 1906 at the Salon de la libre esthétique in Brussels and at the Berliner Secession in Berlin. She painted\u003cbr\u003e works with \"moderate pointillism\" from which she also knows how to free herself. Her\u003cbr\u003e painting reflects his life and the places he lives in: the rooftops of Paris, the Bois de\u003cbr\u003e Boulogne, the landscapes of Provence. She finds her subjects around\u003cbr\u003e of her: she paints her son François born in 1901, but also others\u003cbr\u003e members of his family. Still lifes and bouquets of flowers\u003cbr\u003e are numerous. She is organizing her first solo exhibition in\u003cbr\u003e 1907 at the Druet gallery, 39 paintings and 32 drawings are presented there.\u003cbr\u003e From 1911 onwards, she wrote various articles and monographs on\u003cbr\u003e members of this movement (Georges Seurat, Paul Signac,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHenri-Edmond Cross, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Maurice Denis). Its\u003cbr\u003e understanding of the theory of neo-impressionist painting\u003cbr\u003e make her the first specialist of this movement.\u003cbr\u003e During the First World War, she lived in Fréjus in a house next to which the riflemen's quarters were located.\u003cbr\u003e Senegalese before their arrival at the front. She decided to improve the soldiers' learning of the French language and organized in this\u003cbr\u003e aim of literacy classes at his home.\u003cbr\u003e In 1921 and 1922, commissioned by the French government to study\u003cbr\u003e \"the indigenous family environment and especially the role of women\",\u003cbr\u003e she made a trip to French West Africa, including\u003cbr\u003e She brings back numerous paintings and three books which tell this story\u003cbr\u003e journey. Lucie Cousturier is a pioneer on this subject, before\u003cbr\u003e other committed French intellectuals like André Gide or\u003cbr\u003e Michel Leiris. The portraits she creates are far from representations \u003cbr\u003estereotypes of African peoples that prevailed at the time. Revenue\u003cbr\u003e In France, she wrote in Le Paria, “newspaper of the black proletariats and\u003cbr\u003e yellows”, and devoted the end of his life to the fight for the emancipation of these peoples.\u003cbr\u003e His work presents a variety of themes and his style changes\u003cbr\u003e during his life, moving from a controlled neo-impressionism to\u003cbr\u003e spontaneous watercolors created during his many travels\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antinoë","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55334037979460,"sku":"31782","price":24.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/4043\/6408\/files\/products-811118.jpg?v=1753363223","url":"https:\/\/anttopinoe.com\/en-en\/products\/lucie-cousturier-une-artiste-chez-les-neo-impressionnistes","provider":"Antinoë","version":"1.0","type":"link"}