Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Jean Cocteau
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Jean Cocteau
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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Creator:
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Albert Gleizes (French painter, 1881-1953)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) DO02765
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Location Note:
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52 Santa Isabel Street
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GPS:
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+40.408889-3.694444
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Date:
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1916 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Cubist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint and plaster on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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116 cm (height) x 79.5 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; portrait
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Description:
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Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", 1912. With the outbreak of World War I, Albert Gleizes re-enlisted in the French army. He was put in charge of organizing entertainment for the troops and as a result was approached by Jean Cocteau to design the set and costumes for the William Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with Georges Valmier. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-RIVERA-MRS-JC-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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