Nicolas de Staël. Lumières du nord, lumières du sud. Rome the transposition of Western creative

the transposition of Western creative techniques and the fine arts system to China helped train the generation of artists who came to Paris after 1945: among the students trained by Lin Fengmian were Zao Wou-ki (Zhao Wuji)

They were part of the avant-garde movement that wanted to paint differently

and long since fallen into disgrace

and specific value of the creations

Nicolas de Staël. Lumières du nord, lumières du sud. Rome the transposition of Western creativeNicolas de Stal produced, during a dazzling career between 1942 and 1955, one of the freest and most recognized artistic productions of the post war period. After an abstract period, he evolved, at the time of the triumph of abstractions, towards a painting that reconnected with reality, nature and landscape, going beyond the apparent opposition between abstraction and figuration. Landscape, for Stal, is not the picturesque or the faithful description