매기 롭서(Maggie Laubser), 남아프리카 공화국, 1886-1973
남아프리카의 영국계 가정에서 태어난 '매기 라우저'의 부모는, 그녀가 가족 농장을 이어받기를 원했습니다. 하지만 그녀는 화가가 되었고, 자연 속에서의 농장생활과 사람들, 꽃과 동물 등 어릴 적 농장에서 받았던 이미지는 그녀가 평생 그림을 그리는 좋은 소재가 되었답니다.
운 좋게 유럽에서 공부할 기회를 얻었고, 다양한 미술가들을 만나면서 예술적 감성도 풍부해졌죠. 베를린에서 2년간 머물 땐, 독일 표현주의 예술가들과 같이 활동했습니다. 이 시기의 작품은 색상과 형태가 대담해지고 내면적 이미지와 상징성이 부여되기 시작했습니다.
남아프리카로 돌아와 개인전을 열었으나 반응은 최악이었답니다. 그래도 그녀는 포기하지 않고, 기억 속 농장의 목가적인 풍경을 자신만의 스타일로 계속 그렸습니다. 예술에 대한 그녀의 신념과 업적은 시간이 한참 지난 후에야 인정받았답니다.
About Her
As the eldest of six children born to an Anglo-Flemish family from the Cape region of South Africa, Maggie Laubser was in no way destined for an artistic career. After providing her with a solid education, her parents intended for her to take over the family farm. However, she had other plans in mind and, after studying under the academic painter Edward Roworth, she joined the South African Society of Artists and moved to Cape Town.
She started out painting commissioned landscapes and portraits in the 19th-century style her mentor had taught her. Her life took an important turn in 1913 when she met Jan Balwé, a retired Flemish consul, who offered to take her along with him on his trips to Europe. During her travels to London, Scotland, the Netherlands, Italy, and Germany, M. Laubser discovered the art of Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, and Wassily Kandinsky. Jan Toorop, Gustave De Smet, and Henri Matisse counted among her favourite painters. Encouraged by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, she freed herself from the traditional aesthetic forms advocated in her home country and adopted an increasingly expressionist style.
From 1920 onwards, M. Laubser’s brushwork became more vigorous, more expressive, and her colours, applied in solid flat tints, became bolder and more vivid, featuring simple outlining. In doing so, she distanced herself from the local tone to give way to her own expressivity, with a view to conveying her emotions and to revealing the hidden essence of the world. M. Laubser was raised a strict Protestant, and further reinforced her religious commitment by joining the Christian Science Church.
Her paintings Lake Scene with Cypress, Olive Trees and Sun’s Rays (1920-1921), and Lake with Sun behind Monte Pizzocolo (circa 1921-1924), with their brilliant sunlight bathing towering mountains and tall cypresses, are reminiscent of V. Van Gogh and give evidence of her mystical beliefs. One of the self-portraits she painted at the time (Self-Portrait, 1923-1924) fully adheres to the principles of Fauvism: her face is painted with angular features and shaped using areas of different colours, some of which, like the patch of green near the mouth and chin, are far-removed from realism. From K. Schmidt-Rottluff, she retained the choice of an intensely coloured palette and, even when using pastel shades in landscapes, the application of the paint in large horizontal bands.
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