María Gutierrez Cueto y Blanchard - SKETCHLINE

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1881 - 1932

María Gutierrez Cueto y Blanchard

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An outstanding Spanish artist who worked in France for a long time and became a representative of the Paris school of painting. In contrast to her more famous Cubist compatriots Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, Maria Gutierrez Blanchard, during her lifetime, mostly influenced the artistic renewal of Spanish fine art in the early twentieth century, as she worked at home, participated in national shows and worked as a teacher. The artist is considered a key figure of the Spanish avant-garde; her paintings are a valuable part of the collections of national museums and expositions in Europe.

Key ideas:

– At the first stage of her creative career, Maria Blanchard focused on portrait painting, gradually moving away from classical techniques and academic solid drawing to greater coloristic richness, greater freedom of form, as well as not too obtrusive, but bright expressiveness.

– The art of Blanchard was finally freed from the traditional atavism when she started using methods of Cubism. She passionately entered the art movement and worked a lot; many art experts of those and our times rightly believed that her technique and style understanding are higher than those of Albert Gleizes, Louis Marcoussis, Jean Metzinger and Fernand Leger.

– In Cubist works of Blanchard, a clear technological revolution can be traced. From the first cubism, in which she created fairly simple works, with easily identifiable figurative elements, the artist quickly moved on to more complex synthetic cubism. Experts point out that her style was undoubtedly influenced by Juan Gris, whose aesthetic postulates Maria shared. In her initial cubist canvases, she manipulated simple geometric figures superimposed on each other by planes, in her later compositions, she reduced the subject to important elements expressed in plans open from different points of view.

– Maria worked like if creating music compositions, or similarly to still-lifes of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris, where elements are represented objectively, often with the help of collage as their essential part. Nevertheless, Maria Blanchard is freer in the interpretation of the chosen theme than those artists.

– Paintings by Blanchard are characterized by the artistic parameters of Orphism in the use of colors. This also applies to several abstract trends expressed in the depicted objects. Therefore, by the definition of specialists, Maria Blanchard had “a very personal cubism”, which is distinguished by its formal rigor, its structure of construction, and the mastery of color characteristic of this artist.

María Gutierrez Cueto y Blanchard

On Artist

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Post-impressionism

Fauvism

friends

Diego Rivera

Jacques Lipschitz

Jean Dominic Anthony Metzenge

artists

Emilio Sala Frances

Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor

Manuel Benedito

Ermenehildo Anglada Camaras

Kes van Dongen

Pablo Picasso

By Artist

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Constructivism

Futurism

Surrealism

friends

Juan Gris

Andre Lot

Roger de la Frenet

artists

Alice Jalica de Marcoussis

Marie Lawrence