{"id":9102,"date":"2021-07-09T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2021-07-16T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:23:37","slug":"roberta-gonzalez-dans-marie-raymond-et-ses-amis-musee-de-tesse-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/2021\/07\/roberta-gonzalez-dans-marie-raymond-et-ses-amis-musee-de-tesse-le-mans\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez in “Marie Raymond et ses amis,” Mus\u00e9e de Tess\u00e9, Le Mans, through Sept. 19, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two works by Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez are currently on display at the Mus\u00e9e de Tess\u00e9 (Le Mans), in the exhibition “Marie Raymond et ses amis”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition features Marie Raymond, an artist and art critic who was a pioneer of Parisian abstract painting in the postwar years. In spite of her preeminent place in Parisian abstraction in the 1950s, she has been largely forgotten by art history, like so many other female artists. When she is remembered, it is most often for her role as the mother of monochrome painter Yves Klein. This exhibition shines well-deserved light on this pioneering figure by placing her in the context of the artists she frequented, followed as a critic, and supported, Pierre Soulages, Gerard Schneider, Serge Poliakoff, Sophie Warburg (aka Nicolaas Warb), Hans Hartung and Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christmas 1948 at the Gonz\u00e1lez residence in Arcueil
From left to right: Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Gonz\u00e1lez-Roux, Fred Klein, Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez, G\u00e9rard Schneider, Marie Raymond, Colette et Pierre Soulages, Yves Klein, Lola Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez and her husband, Hans Hartung, were linked to Marie Raymond by aesthetic considerations and also a friendship. They celebrated Christmas together in 1948, with other artist friends, like Fred Klein, Dutch painter and Marie Raymond’s husband, Yves Klein, and the Soulages, in the Gonz\u00e1lez’s home in Arcueil. They most likely frequented the weekly salon held by Marie Raymond every Monday evening for likeminded abstract artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez, L’oiseau mort au portrait,<\/em> 1953,
    oil on canvas, Fondation Hartung, Antibes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    The works by Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez presented in the exhibition are figurative, and anchored in observed reality. And yet, Roberta was interested and influenced by the various forms of abstraction en vogue on the Parisian scene, of which her husband, Hartung, was one of the leading figures. Over the course of the 1950s, Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez sought to create a personal style that blended abstraction and figuration. This style finds its full expression in the 1960s, in paintings that are dynamic and colorful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    A gauche: Roberta Gonzalez, Visage<\/em>, 1952,
    pastel sur papier, Mus\u00e9e d’Arts de Nantes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    The very early stages of this mature period can be seen in “Visage” (1952). The melancholic female portrait, which was very frequent in Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez’s work in the late 1940s, has been reduced to the essential: the facial features are covered with a black shadow, applied with vigorous, visible brush strokes; a simple curve outlines the lower part of the face around the chin. The face floats in an undefined space, without any anecdotal elements around it. The work communicates a sort of somber gravity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This melancholy is a reflection of the female artist who seeks her place on the Parisian art scene. As Roberta writes in her unpublished journal on January 19, 1953: \u00ab Marie a peint de fort jolies toiles. C\u2019est un \u00eatre d\u2019une sensibilit\u00e9 exquise\u2014impressionnable et elle aussi d\u00e9rout\u00e9e, d\u00e9chir\u00e9e entre sa condition de femme et son \u00e9tat d\u2019artiste. Comme il est difficile d\u2019atteindre \u00e0 une harmonie int\u00e9rieure!<\/em> (Marie has painted very lovely works. She is an exquisitely sensitive being–impressionable and somewhat overwhelmed, torn between her condition as a woman and her artistic vocation. It is so hard to find internal peace!)\u00bb <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The exhibition “Marie Raymond et ses amis” will be on display at the Mus\u00e9e de Tess\u00e9 (Le Mans) through September 19, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Two works by Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez are currently on display at the Mus\u00e9e de Tess\u00e9 (Le Mans), in the exhibition “Marie Raymond et ses amis”. This exhibition features Marie Raymond, an artist and art critic who was a pioneer of Parisian abstract painting in the postwar years. In spite of her preeminent place in Parisian abstraction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}