The Art of Rene Lalique

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The work of Rene Lalique National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan):

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Small casts big style

Yuliya Popova, special correspondent for the magazine Ekspert ».


Typically, the high style meets architecture: the Notre Dame Cathedral - a Gothic style, and, say, the Admiralty in St. Petersburg - for classicism. Because the architecture, drawing in all the other arts, enables extremely accurate understanding of what was once thought about the world of space, the decor, which images possessed minds, in what forms they were cast. And very rarely happens to all the features of the style as a drop of water collected in any one subject - the crest, or glass. Strictly speaking, such a case - one is the objects created by Rene Lalique. Any of its jewelry can become an emblem of the Art Nouveau style, but without the decorative glass is difficult to imagine the interior art deco 20-ies.

A female dragonfly and peacock eye

Today, Lalique the only two persons had two groups of fans and collectors: for some it is the greatest goldsmith and author brooches "Dragonfly", for others - a master of art glass and, accordingly, the author of the vase "The Bacchae." Jeweler's art was in his biography of the first, and that it has brought Lalique success. Glory caught up with him when he was little more than twenty years. And it happened not only because he was a talented artist (how many of them during his life had no hint of success) and a very skillful craftsman, but because he absolutely has coincided with his time. Coincided in all respects - in the form and iconography - and even anticipated some ideas about the very essence of design.

At the base of the Art Nouveau style, which in different countries performed under different names (art nouveau in France and Belgium, Sezession - in Austria, Jugendstil - in Germany), from the outset lay the desire to create a living environment in which everything, from architecture to jewelry boxes, must obey the unified laws of beauty. One of the pillars of the style of Henri Van de Velde, designing your own house in Uccle in 1890, worked for him all the way to dress that his wife was supposed to be in this house. In turn, these laws of beauty were based on a few main ideas. The first - the idea of organic growth. In art, she put it in a fashion to form flora - orchids, irises, ears, and vines with tendrils, sometimes stylized beyond recognition, included in the repertoire of artists and architects. Another idea - the vitality, spontaneity, not subject to reason the beginning of life. In art, this is reflected in the fluid, and seemed redundant forms. This spontaneously developing forms can not obey a rigid geometry, it can set its own rhythm, just like the rhythm set to storm waves. Just look at lalikovskie brooches, tiaras and necklaces, and a feeling of redundancy forms, which often occurs when you look at them, replaced by a guess: it's things that hide the great disaster.

Although jewelry art is not one of those where there are subjects, major and minor characters, but in jewels lalikovskih these characters are, more precisely - the heroine. By Lalique they came from a rich iconographic vocabulary of modern art, and there at the turn of the poetry of Symbolism. First of all this, of course, female figures. Woman Art Nouveau era - a very special creature: mysterious (female sphinx, a woman - an exotic flower or a woman-snake), the irrational (the personification of water or fire element), exalted (Bacchante), bringing death and oblivion (Judith, Salome, siren, or mermaid ). Lalique jewelry can be illustrated by the Encyclopedia of Women's Images Art Nouveau era. Diadem with siren - mermaid tail forks, becoming a wave crests, and at the same time demonstrating the favorite in the Modern bending line called "lash of a whip." Here is the famous Brooch "Dragonfly", where strekozinoe body crowned female bust (tendency to metamorphosis - one of the properties of feminine nature, according to Art Nouveau). If you look at the wings of a dragonfly, you'll see a pattern to them, "peacock eye" with a characteristic combination of emerald green and dark blue. That is, a female dragonfly has borrowed a bit of beauty and a peacock - pet Nouveau generously supplying the years 1880-1910 in the patterns and colors of majolica friezes, screens, wallpaper, upholstery fabrics, bags, vases, combs and, of course, jewelry.

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Cars, trucks, ships


After World War Lalique started producing glass - vases, chamber sculptures, lamps, perfume bottles, figurines for lattices of automotive radiators, glass panels. And more projects interiors. But it already was a different era - cars, fashion on the aircraft, skyscrapers and the elegant modernized version of classic chic, which is called Art Deco. At Deco, whose blossoms were in between the two world wars had their flagships. One of them - a transatlantic liner Normandie, whose interiors have been decorated entirely in the new style 20-ies, and the Pullman car of the first class, inside which develops Rene Lalique with its employees. Go to the Normandie, he also later had a relationship: in 1936, worked on the decor of the floating museum. The shape of its glass figurines, vases, bottles already reflect new tastes - it is not peculiar that the redundancy, which distinguishes it decoration. Their shape and color much more restrained, no peacock medley, no sverhzamyslovatyh patterns. Lalique felt the time and gave him his due.

Now we can say that today's love for the Lalique feeds not only the artistic merit of his own things and their uniqueness, but to a large degree and membership of these same things to the great artistic universe, which is guessed at one glance lalikovskuyu brooch or glass mascot for the radiator Rolls Royce. You look at the pattern of "peacock's eye", decorating the wings of dragonfly, and remember the famous "Peacock Room" by James Whistler, each bend of silver wire stand grating entrances to the Paris Metro by Hector Guimard, a female profile on the mother of pearl - the image of Sarah Bernhardt in the opal-colored dress with puffed sleeves and flowing skirt, make a figure like an exotic flower. His glass 20-30-ies raises the least fragile than itself, the substance - the era of Art Deco, with its love of beauty, perfectly coexist with a sincere admiration of the technological progress.

And yet. Lalique, who began to actively use in jewelry semi-precious stones, pearls, bone, glass and others are not very expensive, but let it needs a combination of colors and textures of materials, was one of those who anticipated the current attitude towards design, which can be expressed as: nothing material, design ideas - everything!

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Life After Life

Rene Lalique died in 1945, leaving his son Mark a thriving enterprise which was engaged in production of decorative and applied arts and interior design. Lalique original things - mostly glass - highly prized today. A couple of years ago a statue "Fantasia" in 1918 bought at Christie's for 800 thousand dollars, but it is an absolute record. Often the price of glass lalikovskoe limited tens of thousands of dollars: in 2005, at the same auction for 72 thousand dollars was sold vase "Whirlwind" mid-20's. As for jewelry, it seems, they are firmly settled in museums and private collections and at auction are rare.

The terms of these original things very small, it expands slightly due to modern replicas, which the company Lalique produces limited batches. Marc Lalique adjusted release of products from crystal models of the father. The company then passed to the granddaughter of Lalique, Marie-Claire, who in 1994 sold it to the French company Pochet. At Pochet it bought Swiss firm Art & Fragrance and French Financiere Saint-Germain. Lalique still produces a replica lalikovskogo glass. But the main products - a trifle, "based on" Rene Lalique: tableware, clocks, lamps and ornaments, as well as perfumes, handbags, belts and scarves. Say that all is not capable of causing, and a small fraction of admiration, which goes to the works of Rene Lalique - to say nothing. This consumer goods. Publicized Brooch "Dragonfly" from the collection Bucolique (blessed memory of the "Dragonfly" turn of the century) can now be purchased from Lalique on the internet for two hundred pounds. That is, it would be possible if it does not bring tears to his anything-not-remarkable. Lalique has been criticized for conservatism, for the lack of fresh ideas, original designs, recalling that the founder of the company was able to produce unprecedented things. That was one thing to clarify: he did what he did to nobody. But what is all somehow expected. And this was a guarantee of its success. But for such a development should be an unmistakable sense of time.

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Would see this krasotischu own eyes! "
Able to do before!

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The work of Rene Lalique Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio:

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The work of Rene Lalique Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana:

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The work of Rene Lalique Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba:

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Tiutchev, thanks, great stuff!
Go this weekend the whole family!

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Mann, thank you!
I am very pleased!
And definitely go.
It's worth it ...