Michel Tapié
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Michel Tapié (full name: Michel Tapié de Céleyran; 26 February 1909 – 30 July 1987) was a French art
Art of Another Kind
Michel Tapié's 1952 book entitled Un art autre (Art of Another Kind), influenced a distinctly European approach to American
According to the Guggenheim Collection's art-historical glossary entry on "l'art informel" (see External links), Tapié, in his 1952 book, "was trying to define a tendency in postwar European painting that he saw as a radical break with all traditional notions of order and composition —including those of Modernism.... He used the term Art Informel (from the French informe, meaning unformed or formless) to refer to the antigeometric, antinaturalistic, and nonfigurative formal preoccupations of these artists, stressing their pursuit of spontaneity, looseness of form, and the irrational.... Artists who became associated with Art Informel include Enrico Donati, Lucio Fontana, Agenore Fabbri, Alberto Burri, Asger Jorn, Phillip Martin, Emil Schumacher, Kazuo Shiraga, Antoni Tàpies, and Jiro Yoshihara."[2]
Globe-trotting promoter of modern art
Chipp notes that Tapié's importance to Avant-garde art, beginning in the mid-1940s, was "not only as an author of books, criticism, and exhibition catalogues, but also as an organizer of exhibitions of contemporary art in Europe, Latin America, and Japan, and as an adviser to galleries throughout the world" (p. 591). In 1952, Tapié wrote the catalogue for, and helped to organize, Jackson Pollock’s first solo exhibition in Paris, which took place at the Studio Paul Facchetti (see Tapié's essay/catalogue listed below). The French lyrical abstractionist (or tachiste) Georges Mathieu was another artist of whom Tapié was an early champion (see catalogue below).
In 1957, Tapié travelled with
In 1960, with architect
Quotation
In the words of Saint John of the Cross, 'To reach the unknown, you must pass through the unknown.' Academicism--finished for good, isn't it?[5]
See also
Sources
- Evezard, Juliette. "Un Art Autre". Le rêve de Michel Tapié, ISBN 978-2-37896-329-3
- Chipp, Herschel B.. Theories of modern art; a source book by artists and critics (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1968)
- Le Pichon, Yann; and Jean Louis Ferrier. Art of our century : the chronicle of western art, 1900 to the present [Walter D. Glanze, English translation] (New York : Prentice Hall Editions, 1989) ISBN 978-0-13-011644-4[contains extensive material concerning Tapié's Un Art Autre (1952)]
- Moretti, Luigi; Michel Tapié. Le baroque généralisé : manifeste du baroque ensembliste (Torino : Edizioni del Dioscuro, 1965) OCLC 57403312
- Tapié, Michel. Un art autre où il s'agit de nouveaux dévidages du réel (Paris, Gabriel-Giraud et fils, 1952) OCLC 1110556
- Antoni Tàpies and Michel Tapié. Antonio Tapies [sic], New York City, G. Wittenborn, 1959. OCLC 1090149 [Note: this Worldcat listing gives the painter's first name as "Antonio" in the title, also omitting the accent mark in the surname. Despite the similar surnames, the two men were unrelated.]
- Tapié, Michel; Paul Jenkins; Esther Jenkins. Observations (New York City, G. Wittenborn, 1956) OCLC 1127301
- Tapié, Michel. Elaine Hamilton: Exhibition of Paintings (Osaka, Japan: Fujikawa Gallery), April 12–18, 1961. OCLC 81011323
- Tapié, Michel. Hans Hofmann : peintures 1962 : 23 avril-18 mai 1963. (Paris: Galerie Anderson-Mayer, 1963.) [exhibition catalogue and commentary: Tapié was a great admirer of Hans Hofmann] OCLC: 62515192
- Tapié, Michel; Ossorio, Alfonso. Pollock (Paris, P. Facchetti, 1952) OCLC: 30601793
- Tapié, Michel; Instituto Torquato de di Tella. Centro de Artes Visuales. Intuiciones y realizaciones formales : exposición de obras seleccionadas por Michel Tapié, Centro de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato di Tella ... Buenos Aires ... del 14 de agosto al 4 de setiembre de 1964 (Worldcat link: [1]) (Buenos Aires: El Instituto, 1964) OCLC 7889303
- 53194339 [Worldcat "Other titles" information: Gutai art exhibition, Aventure informelle, International art of a new era, U.S.A., Japan, Europe, International Sky Festival, Osaka, 1960]
References
- ISBN 978-0-81610-556-4Archived May 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Art Informel". Archived from the original on 2008-10-13.
- ISBN 9788886789059.
- ^ Mézil, Eric, "'Nul n'est prophète en son pays', le cas de Michel Tapié, in Daniel Abadie (ed.), Gutai, exh. cat., Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Éditions du Jeu de Paume, (p. 25-41) (in French).
- ^ "from Michel Tapié's Un art autre", 1952), as quoted (in translation) in Art of our century (1988), page 495
External links
- Color image of a Michel Tapié painting (via an auction record at artnet.de)
- Information on Michel Tapié at www.the-artists.org
- Guggenheim collection: art-historical glossary entry elucidating the term "art informel"
- Guggenheim Museum Pollock bio mentioning his first Paris show in 1952
- L'exposition "Tapié: un art autre": Information on 1997 Tapié exhibition in Toulouse
- Fluxugenova historical essay on Gutaj groupand its connection to Michel Tapié
- Le grand Œil de Michel Tapié, de Franck Prazan (Sous la direction de), Baptiste Brun (Avec la contribution de), Juliette Evezard (Avec la contribution de), Edouard Lombard (Avec la contribution de), Paris, Skira, Applicat-Prazan, 2018