Project Description

Oil on panel titled on the back Yolande + frame "style 1930 » in gilded stuccoed wood

Located in Brussels 193 ?

Dimensions : 45 cm x 33 cm

Portrait de Yolande

From Young Belgian Painting to Abstraction

At the Liberation, stammering animism was expelled by e.a.. Paul Haesaerts, which supported the efforts of Robert Delevoy and several collectors to raise Belgian art to the international level, by bringing it closer to the universal model of the moment which was Parisian.

This resulted in an artistic movement, Young Belgian Painting*, professionally advertised and promoted. It did not last long due to the sudden death of its president René Lust.. This short existence was very turbulent.

Firstly, he made many followers. The other, he lost painters of the caliber of a Rik Slabbinck (1914-1991), Antoine Mortier (1908-1999) and Luc Peire (1916-1994). The current opened up to the abstraction that, after 1950, became, so to speak, the official artistic genre, in Belgium as in Paris and elsewhere. This standardization buried more than one: Emile Mahy (1903-1979), the author of charming urban views of Brussels, Charles Pry (1915), which tended towards surrealism, Rene Barbaix (1909-1966), Paul Van Esche (1907-1981), Colette Explore, Henry Brewer (1918-1981), etc.

Young Belgian Painting is probably the first artistic movement in which women occupied a decisive place.. Anne Bonnet's creations (1908-1960), Me Quinet (1906-2001) and Odette Collon (1926) are worth those of their colleagues. The rest of their career proved that it is not easy for a woman to stay on stage. Martha Gives (1885-1967) tried to come back but, after brilliant beginnings in the 1910s, his second career, started towards 1950, was unfortunately less convincing.

Another self-portrait is offered to you.