Jawlensky. La promesse du visage. Religion purity and hybridity

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Jawlensky. La promesse du visage. Religion purity and hybridityA Russian painter and Kandinsky's traveling companion during the first decade of the 20th century in Munich, Alexej von Jawlensky offers the example of an artist who participates in modernity by experimenting with boundaries: between expressionism and fauvism, between figuration and abstraction. This singular work begins an exploration of the face, which simplifies over the years, moves away from resemblance, then blurs, loses its features, to become