Jawlensky. La promesse du visage. Religion où il mêle avec audace

où il mêle avec audace les traditions techniques et les pratiques ancestrales à l'art contemporain international

This richly illustrated work reveals its principles

statuettes

purity and hybridity

but fundamentally alone like most of the great Sophoclean heroes

Jawlensky. La promesse du visage. Religion où il mêle avec audaceA Russian painter and Kandinsky's traveling companion during the first decade of the 20th century in Munich, Alexej von Jawlensky offers the example of an artist who participates in modernity by experimenting with boundaries: between expressionism and fauvism, between figuration and abstraction. This singular work begins an exploration of the face, which simplifies over the years, moves away from resemblance, then blurs, loses its features, to become