By the 1920s, painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso was already financially established, mainly from the American collectors who had purchased his work since the turn of the century. Unlike his expatriate counterparts, however, he was more frugal with his money and seldom spent it on lavish parties as did his fellow expatriate comrades. He sold and produced much of his work in the areas of Montmartre and Montparnasse, which were communities of painters, sculptors and other such artists. He even lived in Montmartre for some time where he had a studio that functioned as his work space and home, as well as an apartment on Rue Lepic, pictured above, the latter of which has since been turned into a small museum of the revolutionary painters of his time. He was influenced by the work and interaction with Paul Cezanne, hailed as the father of modern art, as well as Matisse, and went on to be a prolific founder in the Cubist movement, a style characteristic of a three-dimensional form with objects broken up into an abstract fashion. Picasso drew inspiration from his counterparts, painters and writers alike.
[July 2012]
[July 2012]
There were many other expatriate artists present in the 20s, including Salvador Dali, an innovative painter putting the avant-garde style of Surrealism on the map. Other prolific painters include Man Ray, who had a studio right across from the Jardin du Luxembourg as pictured above. A painter, fashion photographer, and most notably a connoisseur of avant-garde photography, Man Ray is another artist noted for his contributions to the Surrealist and Dada artistic movements. Other noteworthy writers among the Lost Generation are Ford Madox Ford, Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, and William Faulkner--notable for his literally style of stream-of-consciousness--who lived in a hotel across from the Jardin du Luxembourg, and where Faulkner allegedly worked on his acclaimed novel The Sound and the Fury (1929).
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