{"id":73115,"date":"2025-02-07T06:54:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/clean-luminous-and-merciless-reagan-upshaw-fine-art\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T06:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:54:54","slug":"clean-luminous-and-merciless-reagan-upshaw-fine-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=73115","title":{"rendered":"Clean, Luminous, and Merciless &#8211; Reagan Upshaw Fine Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leaving aside the World War II years, which were more than just an \u201cera,\u201d there have been two periods in the past hundred years that have caught the popular imagination.\u00a0 The more recent was the Sixties in America, particularly the Summer of Love in 1968.\u00a0 Psychedelics, shaggy hair, and tie-dye shirts with bell-bottom pants all found their way into mainstream aesthetics and became a world-wide influence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other period was the Roaring Twenties.\u00a0 The French called that period <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">les ann\u00e9es folles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Crazy Years, and the center of that craziness was Paris, where French modernists escaping conformity, White Russians escaping Bolshevism, and rich Americans escaping Prohibition made a clean break with the strictures of the preceding war-blasted decade to concoct a heady scene from which emerged a new artistic style \u2013 clean, luminous, and merciless \u2013 which became known as Art Deco.\u00a0 Two of the best-known practitioners of the style in Paris were from Eastern Europe.\u00a0 One was the noted designer Romaine de Tertoff, better known as Ert\u00e9.\u00a0 The other, Tamara de Lempicka, is currently the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born Tamara Rosa Hurwitz in Poland or Russia in 1898 (her birthplace is a matter of dispute), Lempicka was the daughter of a wealthy lawyer with roots both in Warsaw and St. Petersburg.\u00a0 Raised in Warsaw, she began making art at an early age.\u00a0 At 17 she had a brief term at school in Switzerland, but left to travel with her grandmother on a long tour of Italy, where she became familiar with Old Master art, including that of Bronzino and the other 16<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century Italian Mannerists, who would become a significant influence on her style.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1916, she met and married Tadeusz Lempicki, a Polish lawyer, and settled in St. Petersburg.\u00a0 The Russian Revolution in 1917 put an end to their privileged life when her husband was arrested by the secret police.\u00a0 He was released after a couple of months, but Russia was not safe, and Tamara and her husband fled, eventually winding up in Paris, where they were joined by other members of her family. 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