2016-09-03 Musee Angoulême; The art of Susy Bartolini and others

(France 1930/2011, mère de Marie Amalia) - Marie Amalia (France)

exhibition Suzy Bartolini

Suzy Bartolini, who died in 2011 in its 81st year, one could say it has reinvented the ancient art of glass painting. After Decorative Arts studies in Nice and Applied Arts and Fine Arts in Paris, she married Cyrille Bartolini it comes at the Villa Medici in Rome.

It was in Italy that discovered under glass and tries to find techniques. First in a respectful imitation of popular themes, often religious, then more and more free, she developed a style and subjects of its own, combining grace, greedy sensuality, humor and tenderness. To paint flowers, fruits, girls, cats and children, she also invented a special technique based on thin layers of varnish loaded with pigments that give an incomparably bright result. Finally his intense creativity - it has continued to produce and exhibit - was accompanied by a renewed generosity in all areas around it to invent a whole world full of charm.
It was in this work a case - the little eighteenth room of the Museum of Angoulême - and a procession: the temporary exhibition hall of the Museum hosts a historical and technical presentation of glass painting from beautiful pieces from collections private sixteenth century to the twenty-first, and an evocation of Suzy Bartolini workshop which will also host technical demonstrations.

History
The reverse glass painting is known in the West since ancient times. Described as art music, that is during the Renaissance that this art form reached its peak in the compositions became sophisticated, harmonious colors, dizzying virtuosity of technique. Hitherto reserved for an elite of artists, the reverse glass painting was widely circulated and became a popular art in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century. Soon the mass production spread in factories which neighbor glassworks: a perfectly organized trade instituted and lasted until the late nineteenth century.