Dimensions: support: 375 x 413 mm
Copyright: © Tate | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have J.D. Fergusson's "Café-Concert des Ambassadeurs," a small, vibrant oil sketch. It feels like a fleeting glimpse into a lively scene. What draws your eye when you look at this piece? Curator: The energy, definitely! It’s like a captured moment, a burst of light and movement. See how Fergusson uses those bold brushstrokes, almost like musical notes, to create a sense of rhythm and spectacle? It's as if he's trying to paint the sound of the music. Editor: Absolutely! It's less about precise representation and more about conveying an atmosphere. Curator: Precisely! And that’s the joy of it, isn’t it? A memory, a feeling, caught in paint. Editor: It’s made me see the painting with a fresh pair of eyes! Curator: Same here; art is like that. You never know what secrets it will reveal next.
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Fergusson was a leading Scottish modernist. His frequent visits to Paris from the 1890s illustrate the close ties between modern Scottish art and French painting. He was one of a group of painters attracted by the bright colours used by the Fauve group of French artists.Fergusson developed enlarged sketches of café-life like this into finished paintings, which often centred on the figure of a glamorous woman. Dance became important for him as he later became interested in eurhythmics, a system of rhythmical body movements. Gallery label, July 2007
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