Artist: Claude Tabet

Title: Tree Lined Path

Medium: Serigraph

Limited Edition: 68/250

Art Dimensions: 21 H x 26 W inches

Framed Dimensions: 30 H x 34 W inches


ARTIST BIO:

Claude Tabet was a visual artist. Claude Tabet was born in 1924 and died in 1979. Artists Robert Deblander, Chen Sheng, Konstantin Michailovich Antonov, Bengt Lundin, and Masayoshi Nakamura are of the same generation.

Further Biographical Context for Claude Tabet

Claude Tabet was born in 1924 and was largely inspired creatively by the 1930s. The period of the 1930s is characterised by the conflict between a number of political ideologies, including Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism. Artistic output in the United States was heavily impacted at the time by the Great Depression, and a number of artists took to focusing on ideas of humbleness and the ordinary man. For the first time in US history, artists began to explore into political subjects and attempted to use their art to impact society. Topics such as poverty, lack of affordable housing, anti-lynching, anti-fascism, and workers' strikes were prevalent in many artists’ work. In the Soviet Union, Stalin’s government required urgent funds to implement the rapid industrialisation demanded by the first Five Year Plan. It initiated a secret strategy to sell off treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), including a primary list of two hundred and fifty unique paintings by the Old Masters, many which ended up in the collection of Andrew Mellon via the New York based art dealing company, Knoedler. Surrealism continued to dominate in Europe, and had influence worldwide. Artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera in Mexico, worked to incorporate the ideas posed by Surrealism into their radical political ideologies, developing a new kind of magic realism. The decade took a sinister turn with the birth of National Socialism in Germany, followed by Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. By the end of the decade, the Second World War had begun; which preoccupied both artists and the global population. (www.artland.com)

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