Toperfect Art - "flower painter (Łempicka) (May 16, 1898¨CMarch 18, 1980), born Maria G¨®rska in Warsaw, in partitioned Poland,[1] was a Polish Art Deco painter and ""the first woman artist to be a glamour star.""
Early life
Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was Boris Gurwik-G¨®rski, a Polish lawyer, and her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. Maria was the middle child with two siblings. She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting. In 1912, her parents divorced and Maria went to live with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in St. Petersburg, Russia. When her mother remarried, she became determined to break away to a life of her own. In 1913, at the age of fifteen, while attending the opera, Maria spotted the man she became determined to marry. She promoted her campaign through her well-connected uncle and in 1916 she married Tadeusz Łempicki in St. Petersburg¡ªa well-known ladies' man, gadabout, and lawyer by title, who was tempted by the significant dowry.
In 1917, during the Russian Revolution, Tadeusz was arrested in the dead of night by the Bolsheviks. Maria searched the prisons for him and after several weeks, with the help of the Swedish consul, she secured his release. They traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark then London, England and finally to Paris, France to where Maria's family had also escaped, along with numerous upper-class Russian refugees.
ToperfectArt - Paris and painting
In Paris, the flower painters lived for a while from the sale of family jewels. Tadeusz proved unwilling or unable to find suitable work, which added to the domestic strain, while Maria gave birth to Kizette de
flower painter.
Her distinctive and bold artistic style developed quickly (influenced by what Lhote sometimes referred to as ""soft cubism"" and by Denis' ""synthetic cubism"") and epitomized the cool yet sensual side of the Art Deco movement. For her, Picasso ""embodied the novelty of destruction"".[2] She thought that many of the Impressionists drew badly and employed ""dirty"" colors. De
flower painter's technique would be novel, clean, precise, and elegant.
For her first major show, in Milan, Italy in 1925, under the sponsorship of Count Emmanuele Castelbarco, de
flower painter painted 28 new works in six months.[3] She was soon the most fashionable portrait painter of her generation among the haute bourgeoisie and aristocracy, painting duchesses and grand dukes and socialites. Through her network of friends, she was able to display her paintings in the most elite salons of the era. De
flower painter was criticized and admired for her 'perverse Ingrism', referring to her modern restatement of the master Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, as displayed in her work Group of Four Nudes, 1925. A portrait might take three weeks of work, allowing for the nuisance of dealing with a cranky sitter; by 1927-8 de
flower painter could charge 50,000 French francs per portrait (a sum equal to about US$2,000 then¡ªperhaps ten times as much today).[4] Through Castelbarco she was introduced to Italy's great man of letters and notorious lover, Gabriele d'Annunzio. She visited the poet twice at his Lake Garda villa, seeking to paint his portrait;
flower painter in turn was set on seduction. After these attempts to secure the commission, she left angered while both she and d'Annunzio remained unsatisfied."
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