Jean Dupas Artist Research

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JEAN DUPAS

Jean Dupas was born in Bordeaux, France in 1882 and died in 1964. He was a designer, poster artist, decorator and painter. His paintings are the most closely associated with the Art Deco period.
Dupas worked in Rome, Italy in 1910 for two years where he produced ‘Le Danse’ (on the right), a smaller part of a bigger painting ‘Le Pigeons Blanc’ which won a gold medal when it was presented in Salon des Artistes Français in 1922. This work was inspired by Inges “Turkish bath” and it is on eof the first examples of Art Deco painting due to the way the figures have been drawn; arabesque-ish long necks, bent wrists, almost sculptural. Dupas worked in Paris for most of this life. In 1925 he participated in the Grand Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. This is where the term Art Deco was produced. One of his most famous paintings today, “Les Perruches”, which was in oil on canvas, was exhibited there. Jean Dupas is also known for decorating interiors of the Île-de-France and the SS Libertè in 1934. The SS Normandie had more than 400 square meters of painted and frosted glass decorated in the grand salon with the help of Champigneulle. Throughout the whole of the Art Moderne period, Dupas’ art stlye dominated advertising and commercial art. Dupas did a quantity of posters eg. Bordeaux and Constable. His first posters were made for Underground Group and London transport from 1930-1933. He contributed to Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar and earned commissions from commercial clients in England, America and France. He also created a catalogue for a fur company called Max in 1927 and it was branded “a masterpiece of print advertising”. During his time of activeness, especially in the 1920s he produced many paint works which defined his personal style for example, the ‘Woman with the ship hat’, shows a woman with an elongated

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