Elvira Jean - 1904-1996
 

Today I have prepared a gift for our Samvelchikov - story about a French artist of Armenian origin, Elvira Jean. It dealt with abstract painting, stylistically it belongs to the second school of Paris. This her last name - Kuyumdzhan.

Elvira Jean was born in Bulgaria in the industrialist family of Armenian origin. After studying in Switzerland, she returned to Sofia. At this time the Bulgarian government offered the Armenians living in Bulgaria, to elect himself to some other nationality (an incredible story, I did not know about it!), And the family Kuyumdzhan decided to take the citizenship of Persia. In the early 1920's. Elvira Jean traveled in Europe - in Vienna, she met psychoanalysts Jung and Adler, then in London, she studied languages - English, German and Italian. In 1926, after a trip to the United States, she settled in Paris, where she enrolled in the Academy Julian. Since 1931, she participated in group exhibitions. Her friends were artists such as Jean Bertola, Lucien Lautrec, Jean Le Moal, Gustave Sinzhe.
After the war, Elvira Jean, along with his supporters engaged in Non-figurative painting. From 1954 to 1957, her work is regularly exhibited in the gallery Rock. In 1957 she settled in the south of France, in MOISSAC-Bellevue. It was there that she realized her first stained glass windows for churches in EYZIES sur-Yerevan (1957, in conjunction with Raul Ubac) and Villas Reunion in Paris (1960, together with the Bertola, Le Moalem, Menes and Seiler).

In 1986, she participated in the creation of stained glass windows for the Gothic cathedral of Saint-Die.
Creativity Elvira Jean belongs to the direction of "lyrical abstraction." Her first Non-figurative work appeared in 1948, which is visible in the rigid structure, which gradually softened, blurred. Gradually, her palette is easier, she writes great color spots, almost monochrome. It further develops the idea of Non-figurative landscapes (cf. de Stael - of course, is incomparable artists of talent, but their evolution is similar).
Since the 1960's. she works hard watercolor. "Watercolors Elvira - a creation of the world before our eyes. The light penetrated the work fills the void of paper or dramatic waves of joy streaming "- wrote Basin.

Last 5 images - stained glass windows.

Thank you, I'm very grateful that some of your mouth nice to hear her once to say a pseudonym. The fact that I sometimes reproach myself, and even tortured, that's why I misunderstood these artists, of course I see these colors, these modulations that delight the eye, but for some reason it seems to me that this is not enough, something that would unequivocally be attributed to higher art. All of these factors, well, for example, that she worked with famous artists, doing stained glass for churches, ie it recognized and trusted the work of artists who would not trust an artist of small gifts, and there is not enough to have an opinion. The same I felt when he tried to read James Joyce, then this book is just making fun of me, I simply could not understand anything he wants to say, leave him and even threw, but again and again he took, and went on to read, and still nothing . But Joyce several times reprinted, and is seen as a great writer, and how then to have an opinion. Recently, in which a transfer Garik Martirosyan is such a buffoon of the Comedy Club, when asked what he likes from the writers said that Joyce, did he realize something, if so ..... one word I opustashen. Sorry if you made a lot of mistakes.

:)... have to say, how we miss?

LCR, the most recent work in post number 2 - what is this miracle?

So I scrap over her head.:)

It can not be that it was flat stained glass!

Seems to me that this is the effect of photographic delights that
and object - still flat stained glass.

That's what I think.

If it is not flat stained glass, then lost smysl.Smysl not the right word, but druggo not found.