Serge Charchoune
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Serge Charchoune | |
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| Born | Sergei Ivanovich Charchoun August 4, 1888 |
| Died | November 24, 1975(aged 87) Villeneuve-Saint-Georges,France |
Serge Charchoune(French pronunciation:[sɛʁʒʃaʁʃun]) orSergey Sharshun(‹See Tfd›Russian:Сергей Иванович Шаршун) was a Russian painter and the first RussianDadapoet.[1][2]Born August 4, 1888, inBuguruslan,Russia, Charchoune lived most of his life in France where he died inVilleneuve-Saint-Georgeson November 24, 1975.[3][4]
Biography
[edit]Serge Charchoune briefly studied art inMoscowbefore being drafted into the army in 1910.[3]He deserted and in 1912, he went toPariswhere he quickly became interested in the Cubist Movement, studying underHenri Le Fauconnier.[5]During the war, he took refuge inBarcelonawhere he met the paintersAlbert Gleizes,Marie Laurencin,andFrancis Picabia.
After theBolshevik Revolutionof October 1917, he tried to return to Russia, but failed and ended back in Paris. He attended Dadaist meetings at thecafé Certáand participated in Dada demonstrations, notably the "Trial ofBarrès"organized byAndré Breton.He founded the Dadaist group Palata poetov[6]and in 1921 wroteFoule immobile: poème,arguably his most significant contribution to the movement.[1]He exhibited at the Montaigne Gallery in a show organized byTristan Tzaraas well as at the Berlin galleryDer Sturm.[7]
From the 1930s to the 1950s, Charchoune experimented with both abstract and representational figures, often mi xing the two.[8]His style, as described by British artist and criticMerlin James,was an "alternative" abstraction as compared to many of his contemporaries.[9][10]Charchoune took inspiration for his artworks from the music of classical composers like Bach and Tchaikovsky[1]
Charchoune's work can be found in the collections of theMuseum of Modern Art,Centre Georges Pompidou,Moscow Museum of Modern ArtandNational Museum of Serbia.[11]
Bibliography
[edit]- Alain BosquetCharchoune, une archéologie de l'âme.
- Isabelle EwigSerge Charchoune, soleil russe,Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris, 2007.
- René GuerraProfil de Charchoune,Galerie de Seine, Paris, 1973.
- Laurent Le Bon(sous la direction de)Dada,catalogue de l'exposition présentée auCentre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidoudu 5 octobre 2005 au 9 janvier 2006, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2005.
- Giovanni ListaDada libertin & libertaire,L'Insolite, Paris, 2005.
References
[edit]- ^abcDumont, M (1983). "Résumés / Abstracts".Cahiers du Monde Russe et Soviétique.24(3): 360–361.JSTOR20170000.
- ^Katharine Hodgson; Joanne Shelton; Alexandra Smith (21 April 2017).Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon.Open Book Publishers. pp. 238–.ISBN978-1-78374-090-1.
- ^ab"Leaving Home | BLOUIN ARTINFO".enit.blouinartinfo.Retrieved2019-01-17.
- ^Kenneth."Serge Charchoune".rusartnet.Retrieved2019-01-22.
- ^The Editors of ARTnews (2016-02-19)."A Gentle Paris Painter of Another Age: William N. Copley on Serge Charchoune, in 1960".ARTnews.Retrieved2019-01-17.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^Leonid Livak (2003).How it was Done in Paris: Russian Émigré Literature and French Modernism.Univ of Wisconsin Press. pp. 49–.ISBN978-0-299-18514-5.
- ^Tupitsyn, Margarita (2018)."Russian Dada 1914–1924"(PDF).Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.RetrievedJanuary 22,2019.
- ^JAMES, MERLIN (2010). "Serge Charchoune: Geneva".The Burlington Magazine.152(1284): 198–200.JSTOR40601415.
- ^James, Merlin (2000). "Modernism Re-Surveyed. New York".The Burlington Magazine.142(1167): 396–398.JSTOR888964.
- ^"There's an art to being misunderstood".The Irish Times.Retrieved2019-01-22.
- ^"Serge Charchoune | artnet".artnet.Retrieved2019-01-17.
External links
[edit]- http:// lorenzelliarte /en/artists/serge-charchoune#
- http:// artnet.fr/artistes/serge-charchoune/
- http:// the-athenaeum.org/art/list.php?m=o&s=du&oid=1.&f=a&fa=12289
