Raoul Dufy: A Celebration of Beauty

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#888888" TEXT="#080000" background="2cdb8573.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Raoul Dufy: A Celebration of Beauty</B></I></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=160 BGCOLOR="#330033" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Description and Themes"><B>Description and Themes</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Data Sheet"><B>Data Sheet</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Exhibition Content"><B>Exhibition Content</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Textile Design Fashion"><B>Textile Design and Fashion</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="tour.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Exhibition Tour"><B>Exhibition Tour</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Information"><B>Contact Information </B></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#A6CAF0" TEXT="#080000" background="2ce0e0a3.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#003399" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT><I><B>".... What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. "</B></I><I><B> </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Raoul Dufy</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="5" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="669" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 519 WIDTH="319"><bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Humanities Exchange has organized a touring exhibition of the work of the French artist, Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953), and his far-reaching influence as a painter, textile designer, and printmaker. The exhibition is available during 2007-2009.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>The works are on loan from European private collections, and the silk fabrics and fabric designs loaned by Bianchini-Ferier in Lyon, France, have never been displayed before.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>The exhibition began its tour in Osaka, Japan in April  2006, and went to four other museums in Japan prior to its arrival in North America.  It will open at the Society for the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida on March 7, 2008.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>For complete information on the exhibition please go to the links on the left. </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B> </B></I> </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <I><B><IMG SRC="24c48b80.jpg" border=0 width="328" height="440" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Sainte Adresse, 1926, oil on board</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>      </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#003366" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>     </B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>     </B></I></FONT><I><B>Dufy was one of the great masters of the 20</B></I><I><B>th</B></I><I><B> century – he adapted the creative use of color and drawing exemplified by the Fauve movement, but he added a unique heightened ambient light to achieve the brightness and clarity that became an integral element of his work. </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>At the time of Dufy’s death in 1953, art historians and art critics were unanimous in their recognition and praise for the imagination, inventiveness, and mastery of color and light that characterized all of his work. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>However increasingly during the past 50 years, Dufy has been viewed exclusively as a painter – while in reality, his paintings were just one part of a tremendous breadth and diversity of artistic creation. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>In addition to creating over several thousand paintings, he illustrated some 50 literary works with wood engravings, lithographs, etchings, watercolors and drawings; he made more than 200 ceramic pieces; almost 50 tapestries and about 5000 fabric designs. His stage sets, murals and monumental decorations are among the most important of his time.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The time has come to acknowledge the universal character of his work, the astonishing range of his creative energy, and his eminent place in the history of art.  The exhibition is a re-appraisal of the work of Dufy and covers his long career from about 1900 until</B></I><I><B> </B></I><I><B>1953, with a special emphasis on the fabric designs that he created between 1911 and 1928.</B></I><I><B>    </B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#003399" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#003399" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>  </B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="2150da50.jpg" border=0 width="525" height="421" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>Bateaux Pavoises, oil on canvas, 1946</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>       </B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>"......And so this is what life is and it is a pleasure, the constant abstracting the color of which a painter is made is a constant pleasure -- it is a pleasure to him and it is a pleasure to any other...... One must meditate about pleasure. Dufy is pleasure. Think of the color and it is not that and the line and it is not that, but it is that which is all together and which is the color that is in Dufy......"</B></I><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Gertrude Stein, 1946</B></I><I><B> </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Copyright  2007, The Humanities Exchange</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>All of the images on this site are protected by copyright.  Please do not reproduce without permission</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Humanities Exchange</B></div> <div> <B>A  non-profit corporation</B></div> <div> <B>Montreal, CANADA</B></div> <div> <B>Tel 514-935-1228 ; Fax 514-935-1299</B></div> <div> <B>exhibitionsonline@earthlink.net</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2fb51490.png" border=0 width="81" height="73" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>For further information about The Humanities Exchange </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Please click the link below:</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.humanities-exchange.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.humanities-exchange.org"><I><B>http://www.humanities-exchange.org </B></I></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>