la Diane de McCartan
Avec l'été, l'esprit vagabonde la nuit en observant la lune, et je me prends à rêver à Diane, (à moins que ce soit Artémis), courant avec ses lévriers derrière les cerfs, et domptant les biches....dans les forêt des Pyrénées...
McCartan a créé une Diana sublime,
la voici :
la voici :
Je vous le fais en Anglais, la langue de notre Président,
quand il prononce de sa voix claire :
-« I
want make the planet great again » !
Je frémis comme vous d’allégresse, et vous allez voir, je ne parle plus qu'anglais, ce n'est pas si difficile :
Edward Francis McCartan (August
16, 1879 - September 20, 1947) was an American sculptor, best known for his
decorative bronzes done in an elegant style popular in the 1920s.
Born in Albany, New York, he
studied at the Pratt Institute, with Herbert Adams. He also studied at the Art
Students League of New York with George Grey Barnard and Hermon Atkins MacNeil,
and then in Paris under Jean Antoine Injalbert, before his
return to the United States in 1910.
Je connais bien Jean-Antoine Injalbert, qui a réalisé la belle Mariane
qui trône désormais chez nous place de la Laïcité.
Edward arrive le 30 mars 1907. He stayed for three years, making frequent visits to the Louvre to see antique and Renaissance sculpture. McCartan also became well acquainted with the statuary at Versailles. The sculpture of Jean Goujon, Clodion, and Jean Antoine Houdon exerted a lasting influence on McCartan. He exhibited at the salons in Paris but later destroyed most of his early sculptures. Although McCartan expressed enthusiasm about the work of Rodin during his stay in Paris, Rodin's impact on McCartan's sculpture was short lived. Only one work, The Kiss (Albright-Knox Gallery), a marble group of a nude female kissing a child, echoes Rodin's style. McCartan began The Kiss in Paris in 1908 but did not finish it until 1924.
Edward arrive le 30 mars 1907. He stayed for three years, making frequent visits to the Louvre to see antique and Renaissance sculpture. McCartan also became well acquainted with the statuary at Versailles. The sculpture of Jean Goujon, Clodion, and Jean Antoine Houdon exerted a lasting influence on McCartan. He exhibited at the salons in Paris but later destroyed most of his early sculptures. Although McCartan expressed enthusiasm about the work of Rodin during his stay in Paris, Rodin's impact on McCartan's sculpture was short lived. Only one work, The Kiss (Albright-Knox Gallery), a marble group of a nude female kissing a child, echoes Rodin's style. McCartan began The Kiss in Paris in 1908 but did not finish it until 1924.
In 1914, McCartan became the
Director of the Sculpture Department of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in
New York City.
Posthumously honored by the
National Sculpture Society, his public monuments were few-but the Eugene Field
Memorial ("Winken, Blinken, and Nod") can still be found in the
Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago.
Celui-là, je vais vous le remontrer plus tard, car il vaut vraiment le
coup d’œil !
McCartan's sculpture, was stolen
from the Grosse Pointe War Memorial in Michigan and was discovered at the
bottom of the Detroit River eight years later.
Other work can be found at
Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building, a
national historic site in Newark, New Jersey includes pilasters by the artist.
He worked on a pediment for the Department of Labor Building, in 1934-1935.
He died in New Rochelle, New
York, September 20, 1947 and is buried at St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands, New
York.
Vous savez tout. Je commence par
une carte postale du salon d’automne, vous reconnaissez le Grand Palais, et au
loin la Diane de Falguière. Nous voilà une fois encore avec Diane goodess of moon, armée de son arc et
entourée de ses lévriers. Notre Edward n’en a représenté qu’un seul, il
tire comme un âne sur sa laisse, et Diane un peu menue (même si elle est hyper-musclée) a bien du mal à le retenir, d’où son corps penché en arrière.
Quelle position,
quelle force, quelle grâce !
Elle garde l’équilibre
grâce à son arc qu’elle tient au bout de son bras gauche.
à suivre !
(Diane pose son arc)
(Diane pose son arc)
PS : pour suivre Diane :
http://babone5go2.blogspot.fr/2016/05/diane-cesaree.html
Pour ceux qui souhaitent approfondir leur anglais :
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McCartan
created his best-known work, Diana with a Hound, in 1923. In this signature
piece he crystallized his conception of the ideal nude in the spirit of Clodion
and Jean Goujon. The svelte huntress strides forward while restraining her lean
hound, who leaps ahead at her side. She twists to resist his pressure on the
leash and extends the bow in her left hand to keep her balance, thus framing
the primary view of her exquisite torso as her muscles tighten in response to
the dog. The interplay of human and animal energy and forward and backward
movement create a tension visible throughout the softly modeled forms of the
goddess's nubile body. The gilded leash, bow, and the crescent moon on Diana's
tiara highlight the refined composition, which ranks as McCartan's masterpiece
and one of the most beautiful nudes in the history of art. It was exhibited at
the National Sculpture Society exhibition in 1923 and in 1925 at the Concord
Art Association, where it won a medal of honor. The first bronze cast of the
two-foot-tall sculpture was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a
heroic-scale version was completed for a Connecticut garden in 1930.