ANNE ESTELLE RICE
SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah
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Anna Estelle Rice (1877-1959) was an America born a modernist painter. In 1899-1902, she studied sculpture and life drawing. She arrived in Paris (1905), just in time to see Henri Matisse, display his Fauvist paintings. She became a part of the Parisian avant-garde art scene. Initially, she began composing with Manet’s and Impressionists’ vivid colours palette and style of brushwork. But from 1910 she turned to pure primary and secondary colours, and lines in place of planes. As she said “the value of line to give energy and force” — “the value of doing juxtapositions to create life and movement in masses of colour”. Later she moved away from Cubism.
FAUVISM is a style of painting that flourished in Paris from 1905-1910. It uses vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic colours. Matisse is considered a main exponent of the style. (fauve means “wild beast”.)
Anna Estelle Rice was a skilled illustrator and contributed for social magazines (Colliers, Harpers, and Rhythm) and theatres (designing sets and costumes) during the 1930s.
Rice’s art shows less concern for finish. There is no fine detailing, at places, raw canvas and under-drawing show through. No attempt was made to soften the outlines, and the contours are left boldly as literal lines.
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