In this episode, we’ll be visiting Ile de France 1935 by Jean Hélion at the Tate Modern London. Welcome to Art, Culture & Books with me, Anthony King.
Jean Hélion, born on April 21, 1904 was a prominent French painter whose abstract creations during the 1930s positioned him as a significant figure in the realm of modernist art. With regards to this Oil paint on canvas the museum tell us: “Hélion was one of the most prominent abstract artists in Paris in the 1930s. He later returned to a more representational style. Ile de France is mostly composed of flattened planes of colour but the forms in the foreground appear solid and three- dimensional. At the time, Hélion reflected: ‘The more I advance the more evident is the attraction of nature…the volumes want to become complete: objects, bodies”.
By Anthony King (c)