Josep Llorens i Artigas

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Josep Llorens i Artigas (born June 16, 1892 in Barcelona ; † December 11, 1980 there ) was a Catalan ceramist and art critic . He is particularly known for his collaboration with Joan Miró .

life and work

Josep Llorens i Artigas studied at the art academy La Llotja and the private art school Escola d'Art of Francesc Galí in Barcelona, ​​where he met Joan Miró in 1912. Like him, he was also a member of the artist group Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc . Artigas worked as an art critic for the daily newspaper La Veu de Catalunya and was a co-founder of the artist group Courbet, which was named after Gustave Courbet . In 1917 he traveled to Paris on a scholarship granted to him . From 1922 to 1924 he was secretary at the Academy of Fine Arts and then went to Paris. In 1930 Artigas was part of the surrealist group around André Breton , together with Max Ernst and others, actors in the surrealist film The Golden Age ( L'Âge d'Or ) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí , which premiered in Paris under chaotic circumstances .

Artigas devoted himself mainly to ceramic art , to the renewal of which he made a significant contribution in the western world. His work is characterized by formal purity that detached itself from the decoration and contained new glazes and colors. In 1941 he became professor of ceramics at the Escola Massana in Barcelona.

Artigas had solo exhibitions in Barcelona, Madrid , París, Brussels , London and New York ; in 1969 his famous exhibition took place in the Maeght Gallery in París. He received many awards, so in 1936 the Diploma of Honor at the Triennale of Milan , 1937, the gold medal at an international exhibition in Paris in 1955 and the Grand Prize at the third Biennial of Spanish-American art fair.

In Paris he worked with Raoul Dufy and Albert Marquet from 1923 , later with Georges Braque , but above all from 1944 with his friend Joan Miró, with whom he created large ceramic walls, such as the one completed in 1958 for the UNESCO building in París, from 1960 for Harvard University , the Maeght Foundation (1964) and Barcelona Airport (1970).

His son Joan Gardy-Artigas is also a ceramist and often worked with his father and Joan Miró.

Works

  • 1922: Las pastas cerámicas y los esmaltes azules del antiguo Egipto
  • 1948: Formulio y prácticas de cerámica
  • 1950: Esmaltes y colores sobre vidrio, porcelana y metal

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see film info
  2. ^ Gordon Campbell: The Grove encyclopedia of decorative arts , Oxford University Press US, 2006, pp. 44 ff. ISBN 978-0-1951-8948-3
personal data
SURNAME Llorens i Artigas, Josep
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Llorens Artigas, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish (Catalan) ceramist and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Catalonia, Spain
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1980
Place of death Barcelona , Catalonia, Spain