Tamara Łempicka. The queen of modernism
Tamara Łempicka is one of the most highly regarded artists of the Art Deco style, a classical, symmetrical form which had its peak between 1925-1935. It was known as the "Arts Decoratifs" and Łempicka was the most memorable artists representing that style.
Tamara Łempicka was born in Warsaw in 1898 as Maria Górska. She married a Polish count Tadeusz Łempicki, with whom she fled to Paris following his arrest by the Bolsheviks.
She studied painting at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and Academie Ranson and her first exhibition in Paris was in 1922 at the Salon d’Automne in Paris, which brought her immediate success and she changed her name to Tamara Łempicka.
She quickly rose to fame as the portraitist of the crème of Paris society, which soon developed into the most fashionable portrait painter of her generation among the haute bourgeoisie and aristocracy, painting duchesses and grand dukes and socialites.
She left Paris for the USA fleeing from the threat of World War.
Łempicka died in 1980 in Mexico, where she moved to in 1978, her ashes have been scattered over the Popocatepetl volcano.
Her works had been presented in the most renowned galleries of the world, many are in private collections.
Tamara Łempicka, as one of the most recognizable artists of the Art Deco has her admirers the world over. Among them is the singer Madonna. She has lent out her paintings to events and museums. Madonna has also featured Lempicka's artwork in her music videos for Open your Heart, Vogue and Express yourself. Other famous collectors include actor Jack Nicholson and singer-actress Barbra Streisand.
Source: thenews.pl
16.03.2018
Other articles in this section
Light.Move.Festival
A city bathed in light – this is what Lodz looks like during the annual Light.Move.Festival. Every autumn the city’s historic tenements light up with colourful illuminations. Building façades become the stage for 2D and 3D mappings as well as animations that last for several minutes. The light shows are accompanied by concerts and workshops.
Polish Oscar winners and nominees
Polish cinematography has a long history and many remarkable achievements, which is reflected in the long list of nominations and awards won by Polish directors, cinematographers, composers, screenwriters, animators and other cinematographic professionals.
Poles honoured at the Opera Awards 2019
Dąbrowski and Warlikowski are among the laureates of the International Opera Awards, opera’s answer to the Oscars, announced at a gala event at Sadler’s Wells on 29 April.
Bracha – Blessing. Back to Polish Shtetls
On 28th January 2019 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York in cooperation with the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations presented a photographic exhibition by Agnieszka Traczewska's "Bracha – Blessing Back to Polish Shtetls." The event was a part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Wyspiański is back in town
Stanisław Wyspiański – one of the most versatile Polish artists – associated his professional and private life with Krakow. Under Austro-Hungarian rule at the time, the city inspired him with its rich past and symbolism, but also with the challenges it faced. This led him to create his own vision of the capital of Galicia which he in part managed to portray. In his honour, the National Museum in Krakow is presenting the largest ever exhibition of his works, encapsulating this extraordinary relationship between his genius and the city he called his own.