Google Doodle pays tribute to Tamara Lempicka

[Jaga]

She was born in Poland, but I did not even know about her until now. I guess, she just spend so much time abroad and died there.
She was a great artist

www.cnet.com/news/google-doodle-pays-tribute-to-art-deco-artist-tamara-de-lempicka/

Google Doodle pays tribute to Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka
The Polish artist lived in Paris in the Roaring Twenties and brought her unique style to portraits of aristocrats, stars and artists.

BY
JENNIFER BISSET
MAY 15, 2018 11:41 PM PDT
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Tamara de Lempicka worked in the Art Deco era.

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Boy, this artist lived in a cool period of time.

Wednesday's Google Doodle pays homage to Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, known for portraits of larger-than-life people in the Roaring Twenties, on what would be her 120th birthday.

Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898, Lempicka became an art lover at an early age when she spent a summer with her grandmother in Italy and fell in love with great Italian Renaissance painters.

She moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, when her parents divorced, and there she got married before moving to Paris amid the beginning of the Russian revolution. She found herself in a city at the height of post-Cubism and began formal training as an artist under the influence of French painters Maurice Denis and André Lhote.

Lempicka's work included tributes to the Roaring Twenties in her unique style that blended refined cubist styles with late neoclassical. In particular she's known for portraits of artists, stars and aristocrats, who populated the exotic and luxurious art world she lived in.

Lempicka died March 18, 1980, aged 81.

[Jaga]

here is one of her work:

[Jaga]

another:

[karl]

Jaga

Thank you for your presentation of the works of Tamara Lempicka, I must say though, it was very startling to see her works.

Please let me explain though, the works of Ms. Lempicka are extremely close to those of the same time period as Gerda Wegener {Denmark}.

I believe this type of art is called Art Deco, perhaps Pieter will enlighten us upon that.
www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/jan/02/the-danish-girl-gerda-wegner-arken-art-museum-denmark

At any rate, I do like it as it is art that is very pleasing and understandable.


Karl

[kaima]

Thanks for the introduction to a very fine artist, one I had never heard of. I do like her style! Then there are a few quotations to be easily found. Here is one:

[karl]

Jaga

I was not aware of this, until to see a reply by Kai, that my reply was not very supportive of your presentation and took away the sparkle of work that is of The Polish Lady: Tamara Lempicka. I was not aware of this possibility at the time of my reply.

I do trust with hope you are not offended by this, but to the opposite perhaps to consider it as an addition to your presentation.

Karl

[Jaga]

Karl,

can you find any of the works of Gerda Wegener and share with us? I believe that the artists of certain style, like art deco, probably shared the common motives, nothing good about it, if they are able to add something new and personal to their approach.

[karl]

May 17, 2018 5:03:14 GMT -7 Jaga said:

Karl,

can you find any of the works of Gerda Wegener and share with us? I believe that the artists of certain style, like art deco, probably shared the common motives, nothing good about it, if they are able to add something new and personal to their approach.

Jaga

Yes I will try, hate to admit, but of a few days previous, I deleated her work to save space on my hard drive..

Karl

[karl]

Jaga

The following is recorded emages of her works. The maiden name of Gerda is: Gerda Marie Fredrikke Gottlieb. She {Gerda} is from Hammelev {Denmark} about 76 Km SE from my home city of Esbjerg.

The following is the emages of her works. There are some that perhaps may offend the senses of today, but at the time of origen, they were perfectly acceptable in the public view. It seems our times do change and with this,our individual prospective. I do hope you will not find offense to them for I was unable to edit through.

Her husband," Einer Wegener was in year 1930, a first in history to under go a series of gender modifying operations to become a women physically and legally. Once completed, his was a name change to: LiLi Elbe. She {Einer/Lili} died about a year and half later from complications in tissue rejection from a final operation involving a transplant resulting in death.

Being that Lili was legally a women, this made the marrage illegal under Danish law, and the marrage was annulled and so, Gerda was not then a widow.

www.google.com/search?q=gerda+wegener+works&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS704US704&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilpIjPu43bAhVk04MKHVMwCMYQsAQIKA&biw=1067&bih=470

Karl

[Jaga]

Karl,

thanks for the link. It reminds me a bit Klimt's decorative style. Gerda's work was beautiful and talented, still, I think different than Tamara's.

[karl]

May 17, 2018 21:47:32 GMT -7 Jaga said:

Karl,

thanks for the link. It reminds me a bit Klimt's decorative style. Gerda's work was beautiful and talented, still, I think different than Tamara's.

Jaga

Yes, whilst comparing, as you have seen, also do I see some differences between the works of both artist. I would only suppose this to be natural for vast differences in time and place between both artist, as being close, but not the same.

Gerda's works were not that readily accepted in the first in Denmark for her style and composition. It was not until her relocation to Paris that her career was to take off. Her husband/companion was by apparent, a turning point to her style and composition for her works. The following url provides a better description of her life and life style.

www.biography.com/people/gerda-wegener-090915


Karl