L’oeil immuable. Divers Like Stanislas Fumet

Like Stanislas Fumet

and as if from a single arrival

Issus de trois générations différentes

to determine their contours and volumes without resorting to color

L’oeil immuable. Divers Like Stanislas FumetIn France, Kokoschka's works are mainly remembered for his Viennese paintings from the 1910s, those that link him to the Secession, to Klimt and to Schiele in the "joyous apocalypse" of the Austro Hungarian Empire. This is to risk ignoring the fact that this soon to be exiled painter felt throughout his life much closer to Greek and Baroque art, which he believed to be borderless, than to all the occasional movements and deadly labels of criticism;