Carrucci
Jacopo.
Jacopo *Pontormo
Cartellino (It. label). Scroll or piece of paper
painted either on the background of a picture or
on a ledge in the foreground. It is used for the
artist's signature or sometimes for a motto or
inscription. Examples occur in the paintings of
Giovanni Bellini and Antonello da Messina.
Cartoon. The term has 2 well-defined meanings.
Originally it was used for a full-scale and
detailed preparatory drawing or painting for a
tapestry, painting or fresco; famous examples
are the c.s by Raphael (7 in the V. & A.,
London) for tapestries originally intended for
the Sistme Chapel and now in the Vatican, and
c.s by Leonardo da Vinci on the Madonna and
Child with Si Anne.
The term c. is now generally used, in a 2nd
meaning, of a satirical drawing with a specific
point, usually political.
Cartouche. Originally a form of ornamentation
in the shape of a scroll, such as a volute of
an Ionic capital, it was later adapted in
engraving and sculpture as a ground for titles
and armorial bearings, and in this form is
usually oval with a scrolled frame.
Carus
Gustav
(b Leipzig, 3 Jan 1789; d Dresden, 28 July 1869).
German painter and draughtsman. As well as being an artist, he achieved
considerable success as a doctor, a naturalist, a scientist and a
psychologist. As an artist, he was concerned almost exclusively with
landscape painting, although he never practised it professionally. While
still at school in Leipzig, he had drawing lessons from Julius Diez; he
subsequently studied under Johann Veit Schnorr von Carolsfeld
(1764–1841) at the Oeser drawing academy. From 1813 he taught himself
oil painting, copying after the Dresden landscape painter Johann
Christian Klengel, whom he visited in his studio. In 1811 after six
years at university he graduated as a doctor of medicine and a doctor of
philosophy. In 1814 he was appointed professor of obstetrics and
director of the maternity clinic at the teaching institution for
medicine and surgery in Dresden.
Casorati Felice (b Novara, 4 Dec 1883; d Turin, 1 March 1963).
Italian painter, sculptor and printmaker. Casorati spent his formative
years in Padua where he developed a passion for music and literature. He
began to paint in 1902 but to please his mother he read law at the
University of Padua, graduating in 1906. He continued to paint meanwhile
and to frequent the studio of Giovanni Viannello (1873–1926). In 1907 he
exhibited at the Venice Biennale and his Portrait of a Woman
(Turin, priv. col., see 1985 exh. cat., p. 242), an elegant portrait of
his sister Elvira, was praised by the jury. It is representative of his
early works, which were marked by the influence of the Viennese Secession,
Art Nouveau and Symbolism. From 1908 Casorati lived in Naples where he
first saw works by Pieter Bruegel I at the Museo di Capodimonte. He was
also in touch with contemporary northern European artistic circles. He
continued to exhibit at the Venice Biennale where, in 1910, he met Gustav
Klimt, whose work he had admired since 1905.
Cassandre. Pseud. of Adolphe Mouron (1901—68),
Ukrainian-born French artist noted for poster
designs. These included F.toile dn Nord (1927)
for Pullman and a 1930s advertisement, for
Nicolas wines, related to *Orphism and
pre-figuring *Op art.
Cassatt Mary
(1844-1926). U.S.-born painter of
the French Impressionist school. She studied in
Pans, where she settled and became a disciple of
Degas. Her finest paintings were studies of
mother and child, scrupulously firm and
unsentimental, e.g. The Bath, Mother and Child,
and her studies of everyday life in dry
point and aquatint have recently received
recognition. Young Woman Sewing is a fine
example of her work in oil. She made an
exquisite series of colour prints under Japanese
influence.
Castagno
Andrea del (c. 1423-c 1457). Florentine
painter whose style shows clearly the influence
of Masaccio, but which borrows sculptural
qualities from Donatello, with whom C. had a
close emotional affinity. He is Ist heard of as
the painter of a cautionary or propaganda
picture showing the bodies of rebels hung in
chains. This work gave C. the reputation of
pursuing realism to the point of violence. Few
of his paintings survive, but the Assumption of
the Virgin in Berlin is a fine work. C.'s
masterpiece is undoubtedly his Last Supper, a
fresco of great intellectual and emotional
intensity. By keeping alive and vital the harsh
preoccupation with figure drawing and tactile
values of the early painters and sculptors of
Florence, C.'s work was of great importance to
the later Florentines, Signorelli, Leonardo da
Vinci and, above all, Michelangelo.
Castaneda Alfredo
(1923-1981).
Alfredo Castaсeda was born in Mexico City in 1938. He received a degree
in architecture from the University of Mexico in 1964 and in 1969 he had
his first one-man show at the Galerнa de Arte Mexicano, the gallery which
represents him worldwide outside of the U.S. His surrealist imagery
intrigues viewers and his works are included in private collections in
Mexico and Latin America, the United States, Europe and Japan. In 1983 he had his first individual show in the United States at
Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art and has been represented by MAM/FA in the U.S.
since then. A retrospective of his work was held at the Monterrey (Mexico)
Museum in 1990 and a monograph celebrating twenty years of work was
published in the same year. Since then he has had a number of exhibitions
in the U.S. and Latin America which are detailed below. Castaсeda currently lives in Madrid, where he and his family own and
run a highly successful Mexican restaurant.
Castello Valerio
(b Genoa, 22 Dec 1624; d Genoa, 17 Feb 1659). Painter and draughtsman, son of Bernardo Castello. He was one of the
leading Ligurian painters of the 17th century, whose art developed from
a continuous and passionate study of a wide range of sources. His
paintings of mythological and religious subjects unite an elegant figure
style with an interest in dramatic and violent compositions; his touch
is spontaneous and his palette vibrant with reds and pinks, blues and
yellows. His brilliant decorative frescoes introduced the splendour of
the High Baroque to Genoese painters. He was well known for his rapid
oil sketches, with light and lively brushwork, which anticipate aspects
of the Rococo. Few of his paintings are dated or datable, and his
stylistic development remains highly controversial.
Castiglia Vincent.
Visionary art.
Castiglione Giovanni Benedetto called 'II
Grechetto' (c. 1610—65). Genoese painter of
genre and monumental religious and mythological
subjects in Baroque style and usually including
animals; from 1648 court painter at Mantua. Also
an etcher, he followed the Netherlandish school,
particularly Rembrandt. He is the 1st artist
known to have used monotype. He evolved a lively
sketching technique in oil paint on paper.
Casting. *bronze, *cire perdu
Catel
Franz
Ludwig
(b Berlin, 22 Feb 1778; d Rome, 19 Dec
1856). German painter. As a child, Catel helped carve
small wooden figures in the toyshop owned by his father.
With the encouragement of the printmaker Daniel
Chodowiecki, Catel enrolled at the Berlin Kunstakademie,
becoming a full member in 1806. In 1807, after already
making a name for himself as a watercolourist and book
illustrator, he began several years of study at the
Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his main subject
was oil painting. In 1811 he moved to Italy, where he
stayed for the rest of his life. Initially he wavered
between Joseph Anton Koch’s classically heroic style of
landscape painting and the Romantic lyricism of the
Nazarenes. Eventually he found that he could best
exercise his technical ability, and most quickly achieve
fame and fortune, by producing Italian landscapes. He
specialized in Neapolitan scenes depicting festive folk
customs; and such paintings proved popular with the mass
of wealthy travellers who came to Italy after the
Napoleonic Wars.
Catena Vincenzo di Biagio called (c. 1475—
1531). Italian painter of the Venetian school,
his early work, e.g. Virgin and Child, closely
resembling that of Giovanni Bellini and Cima.
Later he was more strongly influenced by
Giorgione, Titian and Palma Vecchio. An
inscription on the back of Giorgione's Laura
refers to C. as a 'colleague' of his; Virgin and
Child with Kneeling Warrior, once attributed to
Giorgione, is now attributed to C. Also by C. is
the portrait of Doge Andrea Gntti previously
attributed to Titian.
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Caulfield Patrick
(1936— ). British painter;
studied at Chelsea School of Art (1956-60), and
at the R.C.A. (1960-3) at the same tune as
*Boslner, *Hockney, A. *Jones, *Kitaj, P.
*Pbillips. His work is figurative but formally
rigorous, using familiar imagery which is
sub]ect to cool, spare, sophisticated treatment
in the tradition of J. Gris and F. Leger.
Cava Paul.
Born 1949, NY, USA.
Cavallini Pietro
(fl. 1273—1308). Italian
painter who worked m Rome and, at about the same
time as Cimabue, began to move away from
stereotyped Byzantine forms towards naturalism.
There are mosaics (1291) by him in S.
Maria in Trastevere, Rome, and fragments of a
fresco, The Last Judgement, in S. Cecilia,
Rome.
Cavallino Bernardo
(1616—56). Neapolitan painter
of religious subjects who worked 111 an
individual style both graceful and
sophisticated. His figures were slightly
elongated, his colour combinations unusual and
his background landscapes approached the
romanticism of Salvator Rosa.
Cave art of the upper palaeolithic era was
discovered in 1879 in the Spanish cavern of
Altamira, where the roof is painted with
polychrome bison. Archaeologists accepted these
as prehistoric only after the discovery in 1894
of engravings and paintings in the previously
sealed cave of La Mouthe, in the Dordogne.
Discoveries have multiplied ever since in
limestone areas N. and S. of the Pyrenees. In
contrast to upper palaeolithic sculpture on
limestone overhangs, the pictorial art is in
caverns away from daylight. Beasts of the chase
are depicted naturalistically (oxen, horses,
reindeer, bison, etc., less commonly mammoth) in
various techniques, engraving, drawing in black
or coloured outline, and painting (chiefly reds
and ochres). Engraving and pigment are
frequently combined, and images were often
suggested by the shape of the rock. Crude
composition occurs, though images are mostly
superimposed. This C. a. was ritual, beyond
which its purposes are disputed, recent opinion
holding that myths were frequently depicted. The
artists were homo sapiens whose migrations into
a sub-glacial Europe began c. 30,000 isc:. The
art spans about 18,000 years, the developed
polychrome naturalism belonging to the millennia
before 12,000 ВС, when the retreat of the
glaciers brought the hunting cultures to an end.
Cellini Benvenuto
(1500—71). Florentine
goldsmith, sculptor, medallist and adventurer
whose boastful and entertaining autobiography
(written 1558—62; publ. 1728; trs. 1771) is an
invaluable record of life in Renaissance Italy.
Commissioned by emperors, kings, popes and
princes, he was renowned throughout Italy. His
famous gold salt-cellar for Francis I is a
typically florid piece, superbly executed. His
work in coins, medals and medallions includes
the famous gold Leda and the Swan. His large
bronze sculpture of Perseus Holding the Head of
Medusa is an intense early Mannerist work. Among
lost bronzes are a pair of doorways and a huge
statue of Mars.
Celtic art. The art produced by Celtic peoples
in Western Europe from c. 450 lie: to с AD 650,
notable for its use of asymmetrical and
curvilinear abstract ornament, often combined
with zoomorphic decoration. It falls into two
main phases: an earlier, which was produced on
the continent and often called the La Тёпе style
(to the beginning of the 1st с. АD), and a
later, confined to Britain and Ireland, from c.
AD 150, and often showing signs of contact with
Roman art. Jewellery, wood carving, pottery and
metalwork are some of the most typical products
of C. a.
Cephisodotus. Name of 2 Greek sculptors (1) (fl.
early 4th с. не:) probably the father of
Praxiteles. A copy of his Irene Bearing the
Infant Plutus is in the Glyptothek Museum,
Munich, and one of Dionysus in the B.M., London;
(2) (fl. late 4th c.) the son of Praxiteles. No
complete work of his survives but among the work
he is known to have executed was a statue of
Menander in the Theatre at Athens.
Cerano, II.
*Crespi Giovan
Battista
Cercle
et Carre.
Movement founded in Paris in late 1929 during a meeting
between the writer Michel Seuphor (born 1901) and the
Uruguayan painter Joaquín Torres García, which became public
in 1930. Though having no official manifesto, it is best
characterized as broadly Constructivist in outlook. It
comprised mainly abstract artists from Constructivism,
Futurism, Purism, Neo-plasticism, Dada and Bauhaus, whose
common motivation was to create an artistic opposition to the
dominant Surrealists. The movement comprised both a
periodical, which ran for three issues in 1930, and a single
exhibition held at Galerie 23, Rue la Boëtie, Paris, from 18
to 30 April 1930. There were 130 exhibits, covering painting,
sculpture, architecture and stage design, by 46 artists,
including Hans Arp, Vasily Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Fernand
Léger, Piet Mondrian, Amédée Ozenfant, Antoine Pevsner, Luigi
Russolo and Georges Vantongerloo. Notably, Theo van Doesburg
refused to join, instead forming a rival group, Art concret.
The exhibition closed with a lecture by Seuphor on ‘Art
poétique’, with musical accompaniment from Russolo, but it was
a commercial and critical failure.
Ceruti Giacomo
(b Milan, 13 Oct 1698; d Milan, 28 Aug 1767).
Italian painter. He
was one of a group of artists working in Bergamo and Brescia who observed
reality with an unusual freshness and directness. He painted religious subjects
and portraits but was most distinguished as a painter of genre and low-life
scenes. These included many pictures of beggars and vagabonds ( pitocchi),
hence his nickname ‘il Pitocchetto’. He married in Milan in 1717 but settled in
Brescia in 1721. In 1723 he received a horse in payment for three altarpieces
and four frescoes for the parish church of Rino di Sonico; they were mediocre
works executed in an unadventurous blend of Lombard and Venetian traditions
derived from contemporary Venetian painters working in Brescia. Ceruti’s early
portraits and genre scenes are less conventional and more intensely felt; in
1724 he signed and dated the strikingly naturalistic portrait of Giovanni
Maria Fenaroli. Other portraits of local
nobility, such as the Gentlewoman of the Lechi Family, may be dated to the same period. These eminent
Brescian families showed some sensitivity to social problems, especially
poverty, and were linked to religious currents close to Jerusalem.
Cesar
full name
Cesar Baldaccini (1921—98).
French sculptor of mainly figurative work:
*assemblages adding up to figures made with
found and discarded iron scraps and machine
parts (e.g. La maison de Davotte, 1960). C. was
one of the members of the *Nouveau reahsme group
founded in Paris in 1960 by the critic
Pierre Restany and *Klem. *decollage, *Rotella,
*Villegle, *Hams and *Vostell.
Cesari
Arpino
Giuseppe.
*Arpino
Giuseppe
Cesari.
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Cezanne Paul
(1839-1906). French painter born in
Aix-en-Provence the son of a well-to-do banker.
He studied in the same school as Zola, and
formed a close friendship which had a decisive
effect on the course of C.'s life. Destined by
his father to study law he was eventually, at
the age of 22, allowed to devote himself
entirely to painting; a yearly allowance from
his father enabled him to work without
distraction for the next 23 years until his
father's death, when he became a man of means.
His 1st visit to Paris proved disappointing and
he returned to Aix as a clerk in his father's
office, but in 1862 C. was in Paris again for a
decisive stay. He worked hard, and with Zola
became involved in the revolutionary creative
ferment directed against the bourgeoisie and
academism. Yet he submitted work for the Salon
and applied for admission to the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts, Paris. He failed in both. For the
rest of his life he regularly sent paintings to
the Salon. In 1882 he succeeded in having a
portrait accepted as the result of friendly
intervention. He exhibited in the Salon des
Refuses of 1863. In 1886 he married his
mistress; they had had a son in 1872. About this
time C. worked with his friend Camille Pissarro,
taking part in the 1st Impressionist exhibition
of 1874. Chocquet, a collector, became his
friend and patron. Again he showed with the
Impressionists in 1877, then refused to take
part m any more exhibitions and retired to the
south. His friendship with Zola was broken off
in 1886 and later he also broke with Chocquet.
He withdrew more and more, but his fame was
growing and he was becoming an almost legendary
figure. In 1895 the dealer Vollard gave him a
i-man show consisting of 150 canvases, and in
the same year 2 of his paintings entered the
Luxembourg Mus. as part of the Caillebotte
bequest. He was invited to show in Brussels and
with the Vienna and Berlin *Sezession. In 1901
Maurice Denis
exhibited his painting Homage to Cezanne and
the 1904 Salon d'Automne showed his paintings in
a separate room. A large retrospective Cezanne
exhibition was organized in the 1906 Salon
d'Automne.
C.'s development divides into a number of
phases. From 1862 to 1870 was a time of fervent
research, study devoted to the museums absorbing
influences of Courbet, Zurbaran, Poussm, Manet
and the sculptor Puget. С was striving for a
realism, searching for exactitude in revolt
against the banality of the bourgeois Salons and
the official Academy. His paintings tended to be
clumsy, coarse in texture, painted with a
palette-knife, turbulent almost brutal: greys,
browns, earth colour and heavy black shadows
with occasional flashes of brilliant colour.
Characteristic of this period is a portrait,
painted in 1866, of his father reading a
newspaper and the Still-life with black clock.
Both are monumental, showing an interest in
architectural composition and a sense of
plasticity.
C. retired to 1'Estaque during the 1870 Pans
Commune and here, in close contact with the
landscape, his sensibility developed. When he
joined Pissarro at Pontoise in 1872 a radical
change was inevitable. The former heaviness
slowly gave way to a more controlled and subtle
surface, his palette lightened with the
increased use of primary colours, their division
and related tones. C. acknowledged Pissarro as
his master, but he also influenced Pissarro,
though to a lesser extent. Both painters
preserved their identity.
La Maison du Pendu shown at the 1st
Impressionist exhibition (1874) typified this
new palette. The realization of this change was
of necessity slow and painful as increasingly
colour and a colour-tone hierarchy became his
dominant sensation and means of expression. A
false note meant a fresh start - hence the
deliberate brush-stroke, the incessant work in
front of the model requiring countless sittings,
immense effort, patience and genius to maintain
and nourish the intensity of emotion. From 1880
onwards this research is intensified in his
portraits, self-portraits, still—lifes,
landscapes and in compositions such as the Card
Players (1890-2) where the subject is
interpreted in the classical tradition of Poussm.
C. used watercolour for its heightened purity
and brilliance, especially during his last years
when his strong feeling for nature was surest.
He was now an heir to the great colounsts of the
past, from the Venetians to Delacroix and he
expressed volume and light in his own way by a
system of superimposed glazes of pure colour and
tone relations, where each colour temperature
corresponded to a mood both of the physical
world and of the world of painting. Thus he
achieved a synthesis of reality and abstraction
as in his Bathers (1900—6) and showed the way to
the developments of the 20th c, first fully
expressed by the painters of Cubism.
Chagall Marc
(1887-1985). Russian artist of a devout Jewish
family, born in Vitebsk. He went to St
Petersburg in 1907 where he entered a minor art
school, at the same time-working as a sign
painter; throughout his work a foundation of
Russian art and the sign painter's technique was
evident. He went (1910) to Paris where he came
in contact witli the Cubists; his work began to
show Cubist influence (e.g. Homage to
Apollinaire, 1911-12) but subjects generally
remain of life in Vitebsk. In 1914 he returned
home and contributed to Lanonov's exhibitions
and the *Knave of
Diamonds group. He was drawn back to his Jewish
heritage, expressed now with a deep sense of
pathos, as in The Praying Jew (1914). His
marriage resulted in a series of exuberant
paintings of lovers, e.g. Birthday (1915—23).
After the Revolution, in 1918, C. was appointed
director of the Vitebsk art school, which became
a centre of avant-garde ideas, but was soon
ousted by *Malevich and left for Moscow. From
1919 to 1922 he worked as theatrical designer
for the Jewish State Theatre, executing murals
there. In 1922 he went to Berlin, executing Mein
leben etchings for *Vollard who then invited him
to Pans (ills for Gogol's Dead Souls). In 1925-6
he completed a set of ills for an ed. of La
Fontaine's Fables and held a i-man show in N.Y.
In 1930 his autobiography, Ma Vie, was publ.,
and C. began to prepare ills for the Bible,
travelling to the Middle East. He went to the
U.S.A. in 1941, producing the decor for
Massine's ballet Aleke (1942) and Bolm's
firebird (1945) both for the Ballet Theater. He
returned to France after the war. Of later work,
his designs for stained-glass windows should be
mentioned, and his paintings for the ceilings of
the Pans Opera.
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Chalukya. Style of S. central medieval Indian
sculpture and architecture which fl. under the
C. dynasty. Architecture includes the early
Ladkhan temple (r. 450 ad), the 'Durga' temple
(f. 550) at Aihole and the 4 rock-cut shrines of
Badami (begun 578). Sculptures include the
majestic figure of Vishnu in Cave III, Badami
(c. 580), and some fragmentary wall painting
also survives.
Chambers William
(b.
Gothenburg, Sweden, 1723; d. London, 1796). Born
the son of a Scottish merchant in Gothenburg,
Sweden in 1723, William Chambers studied in
England. He returned to Sweden at the age of
sixteen to join the Swedish East India Company.
His subsequent travels through Bengal and China
gave him an Oriental perspective on art and
design. By 1749 he had saved enough money from
his travels to make architecture his only
profession. Chambers studied in Paris and Italy,
absorbing ideas current at the French Academy in
Rome. Upon his return to England, Chambers
became the architectural tutor to the Prince of
Wales. This led to a long and fruitful patronage
by the royal family. In 1761 Chambers was
appointed as one of the Joint Architects of the
King's Work and by 1769 he was so indispensable
that he was appointed Comptroller of the King's
Works. When the office was reorganized in 1782
he became the Surveyor General and the
Comptroller.
William Chambers was a confidant of George III
and the first Treasurer of the Royal Academy of
the Arts, which became public in 1768. He wrote
a Treatise on Civil Architecture, and was a
patron of John Soane while Soane was a student
at the Academy.
Chamber's architecture blended the symmetrical,
well-ordered facades of Palladianism with early
forms of Neoclassicism. He died in London in
1796.
Champaigne, Philippe de
(1602-74). Painter of
portraits and religious subjects, born in
Brussels and trained as a landscapist there. In
1621 he moved to Paris and with N. Poussin
assisted on decorations for the Luxembourg
Palace. In 1628 he was appointed painter to
Marie de' Medici and was patronized by Louis
XIII and Cardinal Richelieu. For the latter he
painted frescoes in the dome of the Sorbonne
church, a full-length portrait (1635) and a
triple portrait as a model for Bernini's bust.
During this period his portraits, though more
sculptural, resembled Van Dyck's and his
religious
paintings, e.g. Adoration of the Shepherds (e,
1630), showed the influence of Rubens's Baroque,
though much restrained. His most original work
was produced after с 1647 when he began to
associate with the Jansenists of Port-Royal.
Under the influence of the harsh, puritanical
doctrines of this Catholic sect his tendency to
coldness and restraint was accentuated and all
Baroque contrapposto eliminated, his work
achieving a beauty new in French art founded on
extreme simplicity and austerity. Outstanding
examples of this period are his half-length
Portrait of an Unknown Man (1650) and the
picture Ex Voto, 1662 painted in thanks for the
wonderful healing of his daughter, a nun at
Port-Royal.
Champfleury. The pseud. of Jules Hussar of Henry
(1828-89). French writer and art historian. He
applied the term Realist to his own fiction and
was a great supporter of *Courbet, opposing
idealizing traditional religious and classical
subjects. His critical study, Le Realisme
(1857), was one of the 1st studies of the
movement. He wrote many books on ceramics,
caricature and popular art, including Histoire
de la caricature antique (1865—90). His novels
include Souffrances de professenr Delteil (1S53;
Naughty Boys, or the Sufferings of Mr Delteil,
1855).
Chan Chan. Ancient city near Trujillo, Peru,
capital of the Chimu empire (c. 1000—1466). The
ruins include great step-pyramids, terraced
houses and stone cisterns. The adobe walls
arc-decorated with lively, repeating-pattern
reliefs of plant, animal and bird motifs.
Chapman Jake & Dinos.
Jake Chapman (born 1966) and Dinos Chapman (born 1962) are brothers and
English conceptual artists who work almost exclusively in collaboration
with each other. They came to prominence as part of the Young British
Artists movement promoted by Charles Saatchi.
Jake Chapman was born in Cheltenham and Dinos Chapman in London.
Their father was a British art teacher and their mother an orthodox
Greek Cypriot. They were brought up in Cheltenham but moved to Hastings
where they attended a local comprehensive before attending the
University of East London's Art college in Greengate, Plaistow and then
enrolling at The Royal College of Art, when they worked as assistants to
the artists Gilbert and George. They began their own collaboration in
1992. The brothers have often made pieces with plastic models or
fibreglass mannequins of people. An early piece consisted of
eighty-three scenes of torture and disfigurement similar to those
recorded by Francisco Goya in his series of etchings, Disasters of War
(a work they later returned to) rendered into small three-dimensional
plastic models. One of these was later turned into a life-size work,
Great Deeds Against the Dead, shown along with Zygotic Acceleration,
Biogenetic, De-Sublimated Libidinal Model (Enlarged x 1000) at the
Sensation exhibition in 1997. The Chapman brothers continued the theme of anatomical and
pornographic grotesque with a series of mannequins of children,
sometimes fused together, with genitalia in place of facial features.
Their sculpture Hell (2000) consisted of a large number of miniature
figures of Nazis arranged in nine glass cases laid out in the shape of a
swastika. In 2003 with a series of works named Insult to Injury, they
altered a set of Goya's etchings by adding funny faces. As a protest
against this piece, Aaron Barschak (who later became famous for
gate-crashing Prince William's 21st birthday party dressed as Osama bin
Laden in a frock) threw a pot of red paint over Jake Chapman during a
talk he was giving in May 2003. The Chapmans' oeuvre has also referenced
work by William Blake, Auguste Rodin and Nicolas Poussin. Jake Chapman
has published a number of catalogue essays and pieces of art criticism
in his own right, as well as a book, Meatphysics, published by Creation
Books in 2003. The brothers have also designed a label for Becks beer as
part of a series of limited edition labels produced by contemporary
artists. Using a title from the Tim Burton film, in 2004 they curated A
Nightmare Before Christmas as part of the occasional All Tomorrow's
Parties music festival at Camber Sands.
Jake and Dinos Chapman. Death, 2003, in the Turner Prize.The Chapman
brothers were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003. As well as
including Insult to Injury, their Turner Prize exhibit debuted two new
works Sex and Death. Sex directly referenced their previous work Great
Deeds against the Dead. The original work shows three dismembered
corpses hanging from a tree, Sex shows the same scenario, but in a
heightened state of decay. Additionally clown's noses are now present on
the skulls of the corpses; snakes, rats and insects (like those found in
joke shops) cover the piece. Death is two sex dolls, placed on top of
each other, head-to-toe in the 69 sex position: despite appearing to be
made of plastic it is in fact cast in bronze and painted to look like
plastic. On 24 May 2004, a fire in a storage warehouse destroyed many
works from the Saatchi collection including Hell. The brothers
subsequently made a very similar, though more extensive, work called
Fucking Hell. In 2007, they were criticised by journalist Johann Hari
for adopting an anti-Enlightenment philosophy, and for Jake
Chapman saying that the boys who murdered Liverpool toddler
Jamie Bulger performed "a good social service". Jake Chapman
responded by calling Johann Hari "fat-faced ugly [and]
four-eyed" and "a fascist", and claimed the Bulger quote and
others had been "stripped from the serious debate in which they
belong".
It was announced in December 2007 that the brothers would play
Big Brother during 2008's Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack. They had to pull
out for undisclosed reasons. In May 2008 the White Cube gallery
exhibited 20 authenticated watercolours and oils painted by
Adolf Hitler, which the brothers have defaced with hippie
motifs. Jake Chapman described most of the dictator's works as
'awful landscapes' which they had 'prettified'.
Also included in the exhibition was Fucking Hell, the (somewhat altered)
remake of Hell.
Charcoal. Sticks of charred wood, usually
willow. There is literary evidence that с was
used as a drawing medium by the Creeks, but
extant drawings date only from с 1500. It is
very soft and needs to be 'fixed' if used on
paper. In general it is unsuitable for detailed
work but lends itself to the bold statement; it
is widely used for compositional sketches
because it is so easily rubbed off that
corrections can be made indefinitely. It is
often used in conjunction with white chalk on
toned paper.
Chardin Jean-Baptiste-Simeon
(1699-1779). French
painter, master of still-life and genre. The son
of a court craftsman, he was trained in the
Rococo tradition of P.-J. Cazes and Noel-Nicolas
Coypel and worked as a restorer of the Vanloo
decorations at Fontainebleau. Despite this, his
early work was mistaken by contemporaries for
that of the Dutch masters of still-life. His
modest nature, individual style and choice of
subjects from everyday middle-class life
retarded his success in the age of Boucher and
Fragonard, but he was elected a member of the
French Academy in 1728, while his genre subjects
were made popular by engravers. When the court
art of the 18th c. went out of favour the
reputation of C. rose. The simplicity of his
composition, his single figures of kitchen-maids
at work and children absorbed in their games,
had an influence upon the painters of everyday
life in the 19th с. Manet was greatly influenced
by the unstressed brilliance of C.'s still-life
painting, as Courbet had been before him.
Charonton Enguerrand. *Quarton.
(b. ca. 1410, Laon, d. 1461, Avignon)
Enguerrand Charonton (or Quarton), French
painter. His career is unusually well documented
for a provincial artist of his date (he was
active in Aix, Arles, and Avignon), but there
are only two extant works that are certainly by
him. These are the Virgin of Mercy (1452) in the
Musée Condé at Chantilly, painted in
collaboration with an obscure artist called
Pierre Villatte, and the Coronation of the
Virgin (1454) in the Musée de l'Hospice at
Villeneuve-les-Avignon. They are both highly
impressive works, uniting Flemish and Italian
influence and having something of the monumental
character of the sculpture of Charonton's
region. Indeed, they show Charonton to have been
a painter of such commanding stature that there
is an increasing tendency to attribute to him
the celebrated Avignon Pietà (Louvre, Paris),
the greatest French painting of the period.
Chase William Merritt
(1849-1916). U.S. portrait,
landscape, genre and still-life painter. He went
to Munich in 1872 and worked under F. Wagner and
K. von Piloty; after returning to the U.S.A. he
gained a great reputation as a teacher.
Chasseriau Theodore
(1819-56). French historical
and portrait painter and engraver. C. was born
in the French West Indies; he studied in Paris
and Rome, chiefly under Ingres, but
was later influenced by *Delacroix and the
Romantics, particularly ш his use of colour and
his choice of subjects. In the Chaste Susanna
this combination of firm drawing with Romantic
feeling can be seen. C. painted murals for a
number of churches and in the Palais D'Orsay and
fashionably romanticized versions of African
life; he engraved several sets of ills to
Shakespeare.
Chen Hilo
(American,
1942)
Cheret Jules
(1836—1932). French colour
lithographer, a pioneer of the *poster, e.g. the
series for the Circus Rancy in the mid-1860s.
'La Cherette', the happy, vivacious girl of his
posters, was the toast of the t88os and 1890s.
His flat interlocking shapes and use of colour
are reflected in such works as Seurat's Le
Cirque.
Chervin Catalina
1953 born in Corrientes,
Argentina Lives and works in Buenos Aires. (Surrealism).
Chia Sandro
(1946- ). Italian painter, one of the new
figurative, *Neo-Expressionist artists
who came to prominence in the late 1970s along
with the Germans *Baselitz and *Kiefer and the
American *Schnabel.
chiaroscuro (It. light-dark). In painting this
refers to the use of strong contrasts of light
and shade for dramatic impact, as in the
paintings of Caravaggio and Rembrandt.
Chiari Giuseppe (Italian, 1926).
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