7 FROM ART NOUVEAU TO PuRisM: LE CORBUSIER AND PAINTING Francoise Ducros CORBUSIER WAS AS MUCH an artist as he wat an athitct. His famous hess of Sige concerning the integration of thea show that his work avs poe ‘resent to him. Around the sume sme he lee be believed tat Lv Chesoe The Mantpcce: gs 168, 454) punted in 1918, the yar that Puram wad rei, wa is st ol paising Le Corbusier aciviy aa painter began proce oie 1902, a the start of his raining at she ole Artin -a Chew e Fond ‘ol onented toward the applied arts, architecture, and Att Nowene He ‘nonpedwatercoloe and ted ol panting, eventhough Charles TEs, the the school and himself an academically trained painter, offered no on inthis area. The practice of deswing and the study of geometry And ners however, were fundamental ements of LEplateniers teaching, but wer tended for 2 decorative approach to style and its different practi "ORE PURISH THE CHALLENGE OFTHE AVANT.GARDE Fsothoagh LEplatcnier discouraged his pupils vocation a painter encour agbininsead w practice architecture, Lz Corbusier continued execute watt coisa drawings inthe form of sketches, ste, and travel impessons These ses can be characterizedin ewo ways Many of thr show the architect ns esting down ie onervatons inthe pret Resin mane, whe oes fe he emergence of a painter in cose touch with avant-garde developments Resteolon presi group exhib of 1s ad 91) unr he poetic ‘Lge language of stones) ust be considered tue erate Lens pre (The ange ns ndependene of his architect stuien' Le Corbusers emergence a 4 fst shims the aoable influence of Art Nowveay, ad ao contains refereoces "Cermun Eypressionsm an French Es JEM he punued his architectural ring in the offices of Auguste Pert cy Poe Behrens in Basin, Li Corbusier cone ob ieee in CRE Mis reteences for “Teach” art range from Maurie: Denis wo Van CSB. fom Kees wan Dongen Musou the psy shat Le “il ao have been ntaens by he Geeman rts cannot be led tt tp es cate de Charon (967) ate eal te compos Sic Ett Lag Kieehnor ot Bans Mare Whaever the ain expression "stein eesti nd theta or, fr instance dug a disomic pereretcret erties She ars coil ti WSI¥d OL nVaANON wy Hous34 LE CORBUSIER BEFORE LE CORBUSIER The present exhibit1p othe influence of Cézanne and of cubis, shi : A the same time, he continued i is romans oa in Masse aswell as inthe more tanspresive wo sain, T il eons hermes, the might have looked atthe work of Cézanne for his Blue to pace. The Pet, copied after fings Le Corbusier used thin wash, sometimes leaving the bare can Jn der Weydea, recalls Roush aN AND TH LAUNCHING OF PURISH aftr setting in Pais, Le Corbusier became acquainted wth the coetcian Amédée Ozenfant! By January 1918 Le Corbusitx bea sas creation of Paris, which sp ment was also to be marked by aban Le Corbusier's own devel «appearance of a new aspect of his artiste production: the ol paintings ied with Ozenfant at thee first joint exhibition ean be offered at least for some of his paintings. Je not the first oil painting by Le Corbusier, x nonetheless dhe fest pretation of the rules of Parise. In aranginga cube nest 1 books ow, pipe, and books; fig, 19), showed that he could reconcile the scare ccm with the visual seudy of objects in structured composition. I in Le Cotbusier gives the cube a stable, poetic, and spatial presence, in Le Bol The ed bow fig. 167) he ereated the opposite effect by placing the bow is ton. This composition evokes a traditional gene laden with s\m a his eae the attribute of the eube is associate ith the vas of virtue science." This interpretation is corroborated by the fat thatthe ww roll of paper in Le Bol rng symbolize architecture. The open book rnusie’s Nature Morte ane hare aves, pie wr et ite ales ti Wie book, pipe, glass and matchbox fg. 453) as been compared with the ‘representation of the Bible on the facade of the Temple de TOratoie in TRTY AS CREATIVE METHOD. ing to develop his art within the French avant-garde, Le Corbusier cuted his nature and began to purse as rincded with of profound “austerity.” accompanying the new es 4 petiod of profound ; nena hich he rwo arts suber, They were 9 explore Hos ma} theoredcal texts published in thei journal, Expt noweon, which pre gap published ist grammar, physical and psychological atributes its constructive a stanFRANCOISE DUCROS spe bempecdres “ue aioe ines in Cloke my ovies da sxe he onogapay 66 Pag oem ‘ncn seedy ther othe open vray Ne space. The upper pare of the painting offers a more froma yg 8 forms results from the depiction, on the right and in the be 4 premmpecrepiere ee sh me See cs cele ents a conneeehe Seo ae 2 en oi ee Sere ae 6 ae ee eS ae ieee ee ee keel oe ee eee ee ee ee ee oa ace ot De oe 8 ee ae eae joes Raney go eee pene ee eee Sept a Se es ee ee ee eee a anaes eee ee a eae