Arthur Sapeck

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La Joconde fumant la pipe in Le Rire , 1887
Illustration in Le Rire

Arthur Sapeck , actually Eugène Bataille , fully Eugène François Bonaventure Bataille (born May 7, 1854 in Le Mans ; died June 10, 1891 in Clermont (Oise) ) was a French illustrator .

Life

Sapeck was a participant in the French intellectual movements Les Hydropathes , the "Fumistes" and the "Arts Incohérents". In 1883, Sapeck realized the cartoon Mona Lisa fumant la pipe (Mona Lisa smoking a pipe) for the “Arts Incohérents” exhibition , which was a direct predecessor of Marcel Duchamp's ready-made L.HOOQ from 1919. It was published in Le Rire in 1887 by Alexandre Coquelin, called Coquelin cadet (1848-1909) .

Bataille married in 1888 and had two children. A year later he was admitted to a home in Clermont-de-l'Oise due to a mental illness, where he died in 1891.

"Anti-Art"

The Parisian Arts Incohérents is seen as the immediate predecessor of Dadaism and was the first movement to oppose conventional art in the late 19th century. It was founded by Jules Lévy in 1882, organized exhibitions with a satirical and humorous background and showed, for example, "... drawings by people who cannot draw ...". She also organized masked balls with themes from the tradition of the cabaret culture of Montmartre . The movement to which Sapeck belonged was short-lived, it ended as early as 1896. But with the themes of her works she pointed to the avant-garde of the 20th century, for example ready-mades and monochrome works.

Publications

  • Le dernier jour de l'institution Pompei: farce en un acte . Illustrations A. Sapeck. Paris: Ollendorff, 1882
  • Sapeck: L'homme mort! Monologue posthumous . Paris: Ollendorff 1887

literature

  • Léopold Saint-Brice; Aurélien Marfée: Les fumistes hydropathes: Alphonse Allais, les Decori, Gaston Sénéchal et Sapeck; [Documents inédits] . Paris: Assoc. A Rebours, 1986

Web links

Commons : Arthur Sapeck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anti-art , at webartacademy.com, accessed November 2, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Sapeck, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bataille, Eugène (real name); Bataille, Eugène François Bonaventure (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Mans
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1891
Place of death Clermont (Oise)