Artists in the Spotlight: Maria Blanchard

The painter Maria Blanchard, who died in Santander in 1881 and in Paris in 1932, enthuses with her own cubist imagery, which is very modern even today. Her life is like a roller coaster: on the one hand, Maria Blanchard was born disabled. She was very small, had a hunchback and could not walk properly. At the same time Blanchard had a great artistic talent and was educated in 1903 at the Art Academy of Madrid. This was followed by a scholarship in Paris, including the fauvist Kees van Dongen. In Paris, Maria Blanchard was enthusiastic about the then emerging Cubism. Blanchard explored the synthetic cubism of Juan Gris, who worked in collagen materials, paper and paint alike. The oil painting "Composition with Humans" from 1916 proves the dissolution of a conventional image composition: Blanchard's painting is juxtaposed with angular and round shapes, colors and ornaments, in which the cubist figure does not occupy a prominent or individual position. "Cubist composition composition cubist" drives this method even more consistently: Very striking here are different, strongly separated color surfaces and ornaments equivalent side by side. In order to secure her livelihood, Maria Blanchard taught drawing students between 1914 and 1916. After participating in the 1921 exhibition of the Salon des Independants, Blanchard also temporarily achieved financial success. Nonetheless, her monetary situation was tense; Maria Blanchard depended on patrons. This was due to the uncertain economic situation and their challenged health. Regardless of this, the artist's daring oeuvre captivates whether it is "Mother and Child" from 1922 or "Woman with Guitar".

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