Alice Bailly (February 25, 1872 - January 1 1938) was a radical Swiss painter, know for her interpretation of cubism and her multimedia wool paintings. See also: 1871 in art, other events of 1872, 1873 in art, list of years in art. ... See also: 1937 in art, other events of 1938, 1939 in art, list of years in art Works Births July 28 - Robert Studley Forrest Hughes, art critic date unknown - John Behan, sculptor Deaths Categories: 1938 | Years in art ... Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913 Cubist house in Prague Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. ... Multimedia Artists These are artists using a range of media to communicate their art, such as installations, rooms, sound and visual effects. ...

Education and early career

Bailly was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where she attended separate classes for women at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, studying under Hugues Bovy and Denise Sarkiss. She also went on to study in Munich, Germany. By 1906 she had moved to Paris, where she befriended a number of notable modernist painters such as Juan Gris, Francis Picabia, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Léger, Sonia Lewitska and Marie Laurencin. Coat of arms of the Canton of Geneva Coat of arms of the City of Geneva Geneva (French: Genève, German: Genf, Italian: Ginevra, Romansh Genevra, Spanish: Ginebra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zurich), located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac de Genève or Lac L... cole des Beaux Arts refers to several art schools in France. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München pronunciation) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. ...   City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area... The Sunblind, 1914, Tate Gallery. ... Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia (January 28, 1879 - November 30, 1953) was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris, France. ... Albert Gleizes, born December 8, 1881 _ died June 23, 1953 was a French painter. ... At the Cycle-Race Track, 1912, Peggy Guggenheim Collection. ... Still Life with a Beer Mug, 1921. ... Marie Laurencin photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Marie Laurencin (October 31, 1883 — June 8, 1956) was a Parisian painter and engraver. ...

Fauvism and Cubism

While in Paris she became interested in fauvism, and showed some paintings in the style at the Salon d'Automne alongside principal painters of the movement. By the time she was 39, Bailly had developed her own variation on cubism and her work was selected for an international traveling show. The Dessert: Harmony in Red (1908) by Henri Matisse Les Fauves (French for Wild Beasts) were a short-lived and loose grouping of early Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities, and the use of deep color over the representational values retained by Impressionism. ... Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913 Cubist house in Prague Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. ... First Salon dAutomne Catalog In 1903, the first Salon dAutomne (Fall Salon) was organized as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon. ...

"Wool paintings"

At the beginning of World War I, Bailly returned to Switzerland and invented her signature tableaux-laine or "wool paintings" in which short strands of colored yarn acted as brush strokes. Between 1913 and 1922 she made approximately fifty paintings in this style. She was also briefly involved with the Dada movement. Combatants Allied Powers: France Italy Russia Serbia United Kingdom United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg Reinhard... Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ...

Later life

She moved to Lausanne in 1923 and remained there for the rest of her life. She was comissioned to paint eight large murals for the foyer of the Theatre of Lausanne in 1936. This task led to exhaustion which may have contributed to the tuberculosis that caused her death in 1938. Her will directed that the proceeds from the sale of her art be used to establish a trust fund to aid young Swiss artists. Lausanne is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva (French: Lac Léman), and facing Évian-les-Bains (France) and with the Jura hills to its north. ... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for Tubercle Bacillus) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system, lymphatic system, circulatory system, genitourinary system, bones and joints. ...

External link

• National Museum of Women in the Arts. Alice Bailly