French painter, designer, fashion designer and illustrator George Barbier (1882-1932) is one of the largest graphic artists of the first third of the 20th century and is one of the creators of the Art Deco style among such masters as Leon Bakst, Paul Iribe, Georges Lepap and Erte, whose work transformed Art Deco into the respectable and exemplary style of the interwar decades.
Georges Barbier was born in Nantes, was a student of Jean-Paul Laurent and graduated from the École National des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
The first exhibition of J. Barbier took place in 1910 at the Salon of Comedians, where he appeared under the pseudonym Edouard William. His works immediately attracted serious attention, but the artist began his creative career in the theater, where he developed sketches of costumes and scenery for the ballet performances of Diaghilev's Russian Seasons. In addition, he has designed jewelry, glassware, and posters and advertisements in periodicals. But a special place in the work of J. Barbier is occupied by book graphics and illustrations in fashion magazines.
The first book with illustrations by J. Barbier was the album “Vaclav Nijinsky. Drawings of Dances ”, published in 1913. The next album was dedicated to T. Karsavina (1914).
After the First World War, the artist collaborated with several fashion magazines such as Gazette du bon ton and Bog, as well as the satirical newspapers Le Rire and La Baionnette and more serious newspapers: La Gazette, Modes et manieres d "aujourd" hui "," Les Feuillets d "art", "Femina", "Vogue", "Com? dia illustre" and "le Jardin des dames et des modes." In these editions he wrote articles on fashion, At the same time, he designed music halls, theaters and cinematographs and created original bookplates and prefaces to exhibition catalogs. In addition, in the mid-1920s, he and Erte created costumes for the revamped Foley Bergère. Constant articles and illustrations by J. Barbier in periodicals reached incredible popularity by the end of the 1920s, one after another, books illustrated by the artist were published, among which a series of drawings for Richard Le Galen's Novel of Fragrances (1928), Songs of Bilitis "Pierre Louis (1922) and kni ge of Paul Verlaine's poems "Gallant Festivities" (1928). Among the books he illustrated are also publications by Baudelaire, Théophile Gaultier, Musset, Verlaine, Louve de Couvray.
Barbier repeatedly turned to the work of Henri de Rainier, creating a bright stylized world, consonant with the aestheticism of the writer. Over the years, the Paris publishing house A. et G. Mornay ", four novels by Rainier with drawings by Barbier were published:" The Sinner "(1924)," Twice Loved "(1928)," Meetings of M. de Breo "(1930) and" Escapade "(1931).
One of the artist's most famous works was the illustrations for Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos, in which Barbier created an exquisite graphic interpretation of the famous novel, linking together the grace of the gallant age with the frivolity of the laughing twenties. "Dangerous Liaisons" became the last book of the artist. In 1932, at the zenith of fame, Georges Barbier died suddenly



















































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French painter, designer, fashion designer and illustrator George Barbier (1882-1932) is one of the largest graphic artists of the first third of the 20th century and is one of the creators of the Art Deco style among such masters as Leon Bakst, Paul Iribe, Georges Lepap and Erte, whose work transformed Art Deco into the respectable and exemplary style of the interwar decades.

Georges Barbier was born in Nantes, was a student of Jean-Paul Laurent and graduated from the École National des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
The first exhibition of J. Barbier took place in 1910 at the Salon of Comedians, where he appeared under the pseudonym Edouard William. His works immediately attracted serious attention, but the artist began his creative career in the theater, where he developed sketches of costumes and scenery for the ballet performances of Diaghilev's Russian Seasons. In addition, he has designed jewelry, glassware, and posters and advertisements in periodicals. But a special place in the work of J. Barbier is occupied by book graphics and illustrations in fashion magazines.

The first book with illustrations by J. Barbier was the album “Vaclav Nijinsky. Drawings of Dances ”, published in 1913. The next album was dedicated to T. Karsavina (1914).

After the First World War, the artist collaborated with several fashion magazines such as Gazette du bon ton and Bog, as well as the satirical newspapers Le Rire and La Baionnette and more serious newspapers: La Gazette, Modes et manieres d "aujourd" hui "," Les Feuillets d "art", "Femina", "Vogue", "Com? dia illustre" and "le Jardin des dames et des modes." In these editions he wrote articles on fashion, At the same time, he designed music halls, theaters and cinematographs and created original bookplates and prefaces to exhibition catalogs. In addition, in the mid-1920s, he and Erte created costumes for the revamped Foley Bergère. Constant articles and illustrations by J. Barbier in periodicals reached incredible popularity by the end of the 1920s, one after another, books illustrated by the artist were published, among which a series of drawings for Richard Le Galen's Novel of Fragrances (1928), Songs of Bilitis "Pierre Louis (1922) and kni ge of Paul Verlaine's poems "Gallant Festivities" (1928). Among the books he illustrated are also publications by Baudelaire, Théophile Gaultier, Musset, Verlaine, Louve de Couvray.
Barbier repeatedly turned to the work of Henri de Rainier, creating a bright stylized world, consonant with the aestheticism of the writer. Over the years, the Paris publishing house A. et G. Mornay ", four novels by Rainier with drawings by Barbier were published:" The Sinner "(1924)," Twice Loved "(1928)," Meetings of M. de Breo "(1930) and" Escapade "(1931).

One of the artist's most famous works was the illustrations for Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos, in which Barbier created an exquisite graphic interpretation of the famous novel, linking together the grace of the gallant age with the frivolity of the laughing twenties. "Dangerous Liaisons" became the last book of the artist. In 1932, at the zenith of fame, Georges Barbier died suddenly

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Fear the philologist who comes with love:

Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov: "Love. NN remained the executor of the great philologist; the latter, knowing the value of exact facts, took care to leave in his archives his own Don Juan list. I could not resist and asked: "Annotated?" "

Indeed, annotations in such a scientific list are the most interesting.

Inappropriately accompanied by amorous illustrations by the Frenchman Georges Barbier (1882-1932), which are about something completely different, "Notes and extracts" Gasparov about love:

Love.“With this receipt, it is proposed that you fall in love with humanity within two hours” (S. Krzhizhanovsky, on the problems of the vicariate of feelings).

Love.“A good chess player knows how to play without looking at the board, a good lover knows how to love without looking at a woman” (S. Krzhizhanovsky, 1991, 104).

Dessinateurs et humoristes. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 99 - Pour le vernissage du printemps: la toilette des nymphes: "La Vie Parisienne". George Barbier.

Love.“I do not envy that he was loved, I envy that he knew how to evade,” said S. Av.

Love. Whom you love, you bear the yoke - Babylonian proverb (Lambert 230).

3.

Love. Boccaccio in "Filokolo" distinguishes between love for God, love-passion and love for sale: he is silent about the first, despises the third, and warns against the second of its beginning - fear, the middle - sin, and the end - annoyance.

4.

Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

Love."When someone is in love, he is harmful and annoying, when his love is over, he becomes treacherous." - Plato, Phaedrus, 240d.

- Love is when you torture your neighbor not by chance, but with concentration.

5.

Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

Love."Dry love", platonic (Dahl).

"Love Alongside", the title of the section in "Chastushki" by Simakov.

6.

Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

"Laisa a name that was widespread among Greek heterosexuals and became a household name for women with an independent concept of the moral code "(E. Boratynsky," Verse and Poems "," Sovr. ", 1982, p. 214," Dictionary of obsolete words ").

7.

Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

Bed."False-variable sleeping", Leskov translated the word "adultery".

8.

Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

Love.“If you manage people as virtuous, they will love their neighbors; if they are vicious, they will love these orders ”(Shang Yang, 5th century BC).

9.

Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

Love. Everyone composed the great love of Pushkin to their liking: Shchegolev - Raevskaya, Bryusov - Riznich, Tsyavlovskys - Vorontsov, Akhmatova - Sobanskaya, Tynyanov - Karamzin.

Psychoanalysis of Pushkin is a dubious matter, but psychoanalysis of Pushkin studies is quite real.

10.

Love. W. Weidle: French literature was for Pushkin parents who are not chosen, and the wife who is chosen for love was English.

11.

Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Gallant Festivities" by Paul Verlaine.

Love. Klyuchevsky called Bartenev the posthumous lover of Catherine II (GM, 1926, 3, 180).

12.

Dessinateurs et humoristes. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 159 - Pan dans l "oeil! ...:. George Barbier, 1918. BNF

Love. I love my older nephew for being smart, and my younger nephew for being stupid (Vyaz. In LP, 24).

13.

Dessinateurs et humoristes. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 45 - La mythologie galante: "La Vie Parisienne". George Barbier. Bnf

Love. T. Masaryk recalled: the Saint-Simonists, in order to more closely tie a person to a person and to teach people to love, recommended, for example, to sew buttons on the back of frock coats, so that the brother would help the brother when fastening. And we all gladly sew buttons on the back of our brothers so that they cannot button them themselves, etc. (SZ 65.172).

14.

Dessinateurs et humoristes. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 121 - Vieilles chansons pour les jeunes personnes:. George Barbier, 1918. BNF

Love. Shershenevich about Yesenin: the village annoyed him, and he was afraid to stop loving her.

15.

Dessinateurs et humoristes. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 155 - Le paillon et la rose:. George Barbier, 1916. BNF

Love. He loves Mandelstam without reciprocity; Me too, but at least I try to deserve this love.

16.

Dessinateurs et humoristes. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 42 - Les femmes ne font la guerre qu "avec les armes de l" amour: "La Vie Parisienne". George Barbier, 1915. BNF

Love. From Kruchenykh's notes about Mayakovsky. Olesha: “Do not offend NN. You have to love him. Mayakovsky: "You should, but you don't want to."

17.

Dessinateurs et humoristes. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 107 - Le retour imprévu:. George Barbier. Bnf

Love. Voloshin called the sailor brothels: "amateurs" (UFO, 12, 352).

18.

Dessinateurs et humoristes. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 153 - La petite guerre:. George Barbier, 1915. BNF

Love.“Tsvetaeva, apparently, loved her lovers as a poet, and her husband - for real,” said NN.

Shklovsky said L. Ya. Ginzburg "Lilya Mayakovsky hates because he is a genius, and not Osya." So she loves Brick? "Of course."

19.


Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Meetings of Monsieur de Breo" by Henri de Rainier.

Love. You cannot love another as yourself, but you can dislike yourself as another.

20.

1924

Love. I analyzed Anthony Bryusov before the American graduate students: “passion” is a generic concept, “love” is a specific concept, semantic narrowing occurs, and so on. I was asked again if not the other way around. I was surprised. Then they explained to me: for them love is a general case of a pleasant love-making activity, and passion is an annoying aggravating private circumstance that must be got rid of as soon as possible.

21.

1922

Love. There was a movie called "Autumn Marathon", when I left the cinema I heard a woman's conversation: "I don't like such men." In the press, after some hesitation, the general tone of the reviews was: "The party and the government do not like such men."

22.

1925

Love.- this is not when people look at each other, but when they look at the same thing ”(“ on TV, ”add cynics). Maybe that's why it is easier for me to talk to people because I look not at them, but at their objects; and because it is more difficult that these objects are indifferent to me.

23.

1924

Love."I was looking for unrequited love, because I felt that I was incapable of reciprocal love."

- “I love you more than it’s good for me, but less than it’s good for you” (from English, where is it from?).

- Adamovich, Aude. and St. 419, quotes (and also does not remember where): "I love you, but it's none of your business."

Love and death.

She loved only roses, And I loved - levkoy.
She loved noise and thunderstorms, And I loved peace.

We parted. She faded
From sighs and - from tears.
Fate was breaking me so -
But - I carry everything.

P. V. Zhadovsky, brother of his sister

25.


Dessinateurs et humoristes. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 61 - Nouveaux dessins pour les vieux refrains de nos soldats: "La Vie Parisienne". George Barbier. BNF. / Fragment, on click - full sheet

Shame. Wives to be ashamed - children cannot be seen (Dahl).

26.

Dessinateurs et humoristes. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 10 - Les Fanfreluches de l "Amour: George Barbier, 1913. BNF.

Wife. Statistics: women feel inferior without their husbands, and husbands feel inferior with their wives.

Fragments from the book of the academician Mikhail Gasparov (1935-2005): Gasparov Mikhail Leonovich. Notes and extracts, 3rd ed. - M .: New literary review, 2012. S. 35, 149, 246, 276, 341, 351-352.

In the first edition, the sources of the records were in more detail (not in all cases), the text was copied from: Gasparov M.L. Records and extracts. - M .: New literary review, 2001 -

French painter, designer, fashion designer and illustrator Georges Barbier(Georges Barbier) (1882-1932) is one of the largest graphic artists of the first third of the 20th century and is one of the creators of the Art Deco style among such masters as Leon Bakst, Paul Iribe, Georges Lepap and Erte, whose works made Art Deco respectable and exemplary style of the interwar decades.

Barbier was a student of Jean-Paul Laurent and graduated from the Higher National School of Fine Arts in Paris. First exhibition J. Barbier took place in 1910 at the Salon of Comedians, where he appeared under the pseudonym Edward William. His works immediately attracted serious attention, but the artist began his creative career in the theater, where he developed sketches of costumes and scenery for the ballet performances of Diaghilev's Russian Seasons. In addition, he has designed jewelry, glassware, and posters and advertisements in periodicals. But a special place in creativity J. Barbier are occupied by book graphics and illustrations in fashion magazines.

The first book with illustrations J. Barbier became the album "Vaclav Nijinsky. Drawings of Dances ”, published in 1913. The next album was dedicated to T. Karsavina (1914).

After the First World War, the artist collaborated with several fashion magazines such as Gazette du bon ton and Bog, as well as the satirical newspapers Le Rire and La Baïonnette and more serious newspapers: La Gazette, Modes et manières d "aujourd" hui "," Les Feuillets d "art", "Fémina", "Vogue", "Comœdia illustré" and "le Jardin des dames et des modes." In these editions he wrote articles on fashion, art and At the same time, he designed music halls, theaters and cinematographs and created original bookplates and prefaces to exhibition catalogs. In addition, in the mid-1920s, he and Erte designed costumes for the updated Foley Bergère. and illustrations J. Barbier in periodicals reached incredible popularity by the end of the 1920s. One after another came out and books illustrated by the artist, among which can be distinguished a series of drawings for "The Novel of Fragrances" by Richard Le Galen (1928), "Songs of the Bilitis" by Pierre Louis (1922) and the book of poems by Paul Verlaine "Gallant Festivities" (1928). Among the books he illustrated are also publications by Baudelaire, Théophile Gaultier, Musset, Verlaine, Louve de Couvray.

Barbier repeatedly turned to the work of Henri de Rainier, creating a bright stylized world, consonant with the aestheticism of the writer. Over the years, the Paris publishing house A. et G. Mornay ", four novels by Rainier with drawings by Barbier were published:" The Sinner "(1924)," Twice Loved "(1928)," Meetings of M. de Breo "(1930) and" Escapade "(1931).

One of the artist's most famous works was the illustrations for Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos, in which Barbier created an exquisite graphic interpretation of the famous novel, linking together the grace of the gallant age with the frivolity of the "laughing twenties." "Dangerous Liaisons" became the last book of the artist. In 1932, at the zenith of fame, Georges Barbier died suddenly.

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