Eléments de la construction picturale

Résumé du livre

"Arguably Australia's most important avant-gardist of the early twentieth century, J. W. Power studied in Paris with Pedro Araujo and Fernand Léger during the inter-war years and showed with Léonce Rosenberg and Galerie Jeanne Buche. He was a founding and long-term member of the Paris-based group , Abstraction-Création, which held close ties with the Seven and Five Society and Unit One, including members Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Paul Nash and John Piper. In 1934 Power had the first one-person exhibition at Abstraction-Création's gallery at 44 Avenue de Wagram.Ten years in the making, "Elements de la Construction Picturale" details how over several centuries artists have borrowed from and extended past compositional methods and systems of proportion. Revealing Power's deep knowledge of art and mathematics, it was published in 1933 bound in white boards decorated with a mathematical diagram and was the first artist book made by an Australian artist. It was received to great acclaim when launched at an exhibition which Power shared with Jean Lurçat and André Masson at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher. Much later, the book was discovered by and became of great importance to the post-war English constructivists such as Victor Pasmore, Adrian Heath and Kenneth and Mary Martin."Elements de la Construction Picturale" includes 6 pockets at rear with envelopes of loosely inserted prints of Raphael's The Crucifixion, Rubens' Le Petit Jugement dernier, Duccio's Noli me Tangere, Raphael's Disputa, Juan Gris' Nature Morte (Cubiste) and Signorelli's Adoration de l'Efant Jésus" -- https://www.roomandbook.co.uk/ viewed October 22, 2025.