Tamara Łempicka – Kobieta w Podróży (Woman on the Move) exhibition, Lublin, Poland - Video

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Tamara de Lempicka

https://zamek-lublin.pl/wystawy-czasowe/tamara-lempicka-kobieta-w-podrozy/

Tamara Lempicka (1898-1980) - nicknamed the Baroness with a Paintbrush - created the image of a modern and independent successful woman, which made her an icon of her time, and her name became recognizable both on the Old Continent and in the countries of the Americas.

Tamara Lempicka, or actually Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Górska, was probably born on May 16, 1898 in Warsaw, although both the date itself and the place of her birth are still in doubt today. It is known that she spent her childhood years in luxury, with her parents rotating in the company of the wealthy families of Czarist Russia. As a young lady she received her education at a girls' boarding school in Lausanne, from where she often traveled to Poland, France and Italy. Travel to European capitals helped her learn about the cultures of other countries and sensitized Tamara to the art of the great masters. It was visits to foreign museums that influenced the artist's later work.

Even as a young girl, Tamara showed extraordinary artistic talent, quickly achieving proficiency in drawing and watercolor. It is not surprising, therefore, that at the age of twenty she became known to the world as one of the most important representatives of painting of the art déco era, characterized by classicizing geometrization and the pursuit of a synthetic grasp of forms. In Paris of the 1920s, she became known as a conscious artist using her own artistic language, characterized by strong drawing, expressive chiaroscuro, austere form and sharp color, to which she subordinated the portraits, nudes and still lifes she created. As she herself emphasized, the most important thing for her in painting was the Hellenistic concept of beauty contained in the work, and thus order, harmony, proportion and rhythm. Tamara Lempicka remained faithful to classical ideals throughout her life, despite changes in style and experimentation with material, technique, form and subject matter.

Tamara's life is inextricably linked to travel, filled with a mixture of romance, an irrepressible desire for happiness, intertwined with a constant fear of abandonment, loneliness and wartime anxiety and wandering around the world.

Despite the fact that she came to live in turbulent times of political and socio-cultural change, her unrelenting determination and need to succeed contributed to the creation of her own legend. Tamara Lempicka created the figure of an artist of all time, and her skillful manipulation of the facts of her life, combined with elegance and innate charm, meant that she was able to charm anyone who came her way.

The exhibition "Tamara Lempicka - a woman on a journey" is an invitation to the world of the 1920s and 1930s, an extraordinary era subordinated to the new style, which was art déco. The works of art of the artist inseparable from her life, presented in the surroundings of everyday objects - furniture, handicrafts, costumes and machines - are meant to bring you closer to the extraordinary life of Tamara Lempicka, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.