In the art world there are several figures who have transcended beyond the scope of the very personal or eccentricity of his private lifestyle: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst are just some examples. But with regard to the first avant-garde can not ignore a Tamara de Lempicka.
from Poland, where he was born supposedly in 1898 (the dates of his biography whimsical dance, deception and concealment, very consciously as she did during her lifetime), Cuernavaca, Morelos, where he died in 1980, the life of Tamara de Lempicka distills the complex personality, a victim of fashions and vices of his time, of a bourgeois artist friends in high places and at the same time, existing dark and mysterious, legendary, which she would be responsible for manufacturing and supply. Although his career is an example of the continuing journey (also lived in St. Petersburg, New York and Hollywood), was in the years spent in Paris between 1918 and 1939, when he made most of his works, the best known and most highly valued.
of the broad and diverse fabric that is generated around the world of Tamara de Lempicka realize the exhibition presents these days the Palace Museum of Fine Arts in Mexico City, with the same name of the artist, headlining his first retrospective in Mexico and Latin America.
The exhibition showcases over 80 works made between 1922 and 1974, among which 48 paintings, 15 drawings and 21 photographs of this iconic life and cultural turmoil of the interwar period, from museums in Austria, France, Belgium , Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Mexico and the United States, and private collectors like the American actor Jack Nicholson.
The exhibition will remain in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City until next August, allows visitors to enter in the life of Tamara de Lempicka, marked by the glamor, but also by events that shook the twentieth century.
The director of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), Teresa Vicencio, acknowledges that the artist "is associated more to the world of glamor or his active social life with friends as Coco Chanel, that his paintings but it made it a top representatives of the 'art deco'. " Therefore, stresses that "this exhibition represents a unique opportunity to rediscover Tamara de Lempicka through their creative talents on the strength of his work, the strength of the topics covered and, of course, management achieved in the extraordinary painting technique.
The artist is part of the aesthetic movement of the time, the modernist postcubism and mannerism. Centered on the portrait, with its themes reflect the taste for freedom of manners.
His works, colorful and often aggressive and spectacular approach a characteristic of advertising graphics.
Even today, his personality, his legend and his works continue to fascinate and seduce.
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Tamara de Lempicka was born in Warsaw Poland . The arrest of her husband by the Bolsheviks became a kind of heroine. After rescuing her husband traveled to Paris where he eventually became a muse of painting "art deco" and dazzled the aristocracy with the deliberate sensuality of his art. Married second husband, a millionaire, became Baroness and sparkles in the great halls began to mix with the incipient rise of Nazism. It then traveled to America, where he decided to live as spectacularly as he had planned. Was a friend of Greta Garbo, Orson Welles, Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth, among others. On the death of her husband decided to leave, going to live in Cuernavaca, where he continued painting and frequenting the high social circles until his death in 1980. His ashes are scattered over the volcano Popocatepetl.
"Tamara de Lempicka is a woman of great intelligence, great creativity, combined with an exceptional biography, Roxana Velazquez (director of the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes)
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