Panel

Dimensions : 52 cm x 67,5 cm

Spanish landscape Granada, Toledo…

20th century European School

Signed lower right : Laxagnier ???

“The lacquer is a resin, generally very toxic, of various shrubs of the anacardiac family. This forms by "drying" a solid coating, weather resistant that is also called lacquer (See also Japan varnish and urushi-e).

We also call a lacquer, Masculine this time, An object made of lacquer.

Fully lacquer achievements have been, In the oldest times, From the Neolithic in China, used as luxury utility objects. These objects have reached us as funeral deposits, This material with exceptional conservation qualities. Their very great fashion under the zhou dynasty (XI^e century – 481 of. our era) coincided with vogue for encrusted metals, both producing similar graphic and colorful effects.

Other processes, Like the inlaid of mother-of-pearl in lacquer in Southeast Asia and the Far East, in general, And the assemblies of felt in the art of steppes are just as similar processes and testifying to very strong interregional cultural relations.

Dry lacquers and lacquered carved woods marked the art of sculpture in medieval Japan. Japan has produced, in this extremely-oriental cultural whole, Many lacquers made by such famous creators, in Japan, that the most famous gravel for Ukiyo-e prints. In the West, The lacquer is practiced and it has its masters artisans since the XVII^e century until today.

In the modern world of XX^e century, Paintings based on thermosetting resins (Alkyds or glycerophtalic) and polyurethane paintings are used as binders in the field of so -called "lacquered" paintings : "Alkyds lacquers" or "glycerophtal lacquers" . Apart from the shiny and colorful appearance, The comparison of these products is impossible with natural lacquer, in all its properties whose flexibility and especially longevity, His very high adhesion power, its impermeable and rot -proof character, its resistance to use. All qualities that industrial lacquers do not have….”

Source : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laque

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