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| name = Beatrice Wood | image = Beatrice Wood 1908-photo 2.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Beatrice Wood, 1908 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1893|3|3|mf=y}} | birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1998|3|12|1893|3|3|mf=y}} | death_place = Ojai, California, U.S. | nationality = American | education = Académie Julien, Paris, 1910; University of Southern California, 1938[1] | field = Ceramics | training = | movement = Dada | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = Paul Renson (annulled), {{marriage|Steve Hoag|1938|1960}}[2] }} Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Avant Garde movement in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man magazine in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1917.[3] She had earlier studied art and theater in Paris, and was working in New York as an actress. She later worked at sculpture and pottery. Wood was characterized as the "Mama of Dada." She partially inspired the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's 1997 film, Titanic after the director read Wood's autobiography while developing the film. Beatrice Wood died nine days after her 105th birthday in Ojai, California. ChildhoodBeatrice Wood was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of wealthy socialites. After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the family moved to New York. Despite her parents' strong opposition, Wood insisted on pursuing a career in the arts. Eventually her parents agreed to let her study painting. Because she was fluent in French, they sent her to Paris, where she studied acting at the Comédie-Française and art at the prestigious Académie Julian.[4] The onset of World War I forced Wood to return to the United States. She continued acting with a French Repertory Company in New York City, performing over sixty roles in two years. She worked for several years performing on the stage.[5] Dada and the Avant-gardeWood's involvement in the Avant Garde began with her introduction to[6] Marcel Duchamp. He and his friend Henri-Pierre Roché, a man fourteen years her senior, met her in New York in 1916 while she was visiting the composer Edgard Varèse, who was hospitalized with a broken leg. The three worked together to create The Blind Man, a magazine that was one of the earliest manifestations of the Dada art movement in the United States. The publication was intended to defend the submission of a urinal by Duchamp who had submitted it under the name R. Mutt to the First Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in April 1917. Wood wrote the oft-quoted statement that appeared in the publication as an unsigned editorial: "As for plumbing, that is absurd. The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges." Wood also submitted to the exhibition and her piece 'Un peu d'eau dans du savon Roché, Duchamp, and Jules et JimThough she was most involved with Roché, the two often spent time with Duchamp, creating a kind of love triangle. Since the late 20th century, biographies of Wood have associated Roché's 1956 novel Jules et Jim (and the 1962 film adaptation), with the relationship among Duchamp, Wood, and Roché.[3][8] Other sources link their triangle to Roché's unfinished novel, Victor. Beatrice Wood commented on this topic in her 1985 autobiography, I Shock Myself: Roché lived in Paris with his wife Denise, and had by now written Jules et Jim ... Because the story concerns two young men who are close friends and a woman who loves them both, people have wondered how much was based on Roché, Marcel, and me. I cannot say what memories or episodes inspired Roché, but the characters bear only passing resemblance to those of us in real life!Jules et Jim is properly associated with the triangle among Roché, German writer Franz Hessel, and Helen Grund, who married Hessel.[9] Arensbergs and their circleWood met the art patrons Walter and Louise Arensberg, who became her lifelong friends. From 1915 through 1920, they held regular gatherings at their apartment at 33 West 67th Street in Manhattan in which artists, writers, and poets were invited to gather, where they were given drinks, hors d'oeuvres, and engaged in intellectual discussions. Besides Duchamp, Roché, and her, the group included many other artists of the avant-garde: Edgard Varese, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. Wood's relationship with these artists and others associated with the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century, earned her the designation as "Mama of Dada." DrawingsMarcel Duchamp encouraged her to draw, inviting her to use his studio as a place in which to work. She later illustrated her autobiography, I Shock Myself. She signed her early drawings "Bea," her name in French, but after taking up pottery, she signed most of her work as "Beato," her nickname. In 2014, a series of her drawings were exhibited as part of the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, CaliforniaSculptureFigures were an important part of the artist's work during the 1930s and 40s. She explored both vessel forms and sculpture throughout her career. As her skills increased, Wood consciously retained a naive, illustrative style to communicate her commentaries on life and love. She called these works her "sophisticated primitives." This approach makes clear her love of all types of non-Western folk and primitive art.[10] Ceramics careerWhile on a trip to hear J. Krishnamurti speak in the Netherlands, Wood bought a pair of baroque plates with a luster glaze. She wanted to find a matching teapot to go along with it, but was unsuccessful. Deciding to make the teapot herself, she enrolled in a ceramic class at Hollywood High School. Throughout her long career in ceramics, she never did make the matching teapot. This hobby turned into a passion that lasted over the next sixty years, and she studied with a number of leading ceramists including Gertrude and Otto Natzler. Ultimately, Wood developed a signature style of glazing, an all-over, in-glaze luster that draws the metallic salts to the surface of the glaze by starving the kiln of oxygen.[11] Ojai and longevityIn 1947, Beatrice Wood felt that her career was established enough for her to build a home. She settled in Ojai, California in 1948 to be near the Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti. She became a lifelong member of the Theosophical Society – Adyar. These associations greatly influenced her artistic philosophies. She also taught and lived on the same land as the Happy Valley School, now known as Besant Hill School.[12] At the age of 90, Wood became a writer, having been encouraged to write by her friend Anais Nin, a French writer. Her best-known book is her autobiography, I Shock Myself (1985). When asked the secret to her longevity, she responded, "I owe it all to chocolate and young men."{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} Legacy and honors
Films inspired by Wood
the first chapter describes almost literally the character I was already writing for 'Old Rose'...When I met her [Beatrice Wood] she was charming, creative and devastatingly funny...Of course, the film's Rose is only a refraction of Beatrice, combined with many fictional elements.[13] According to her obituary in the Ojai Valley News, Wood awarded the Fifth Annual Beatrice Wood Film Award to Cameron.[14] DiariesBeatrice Wood kept daily journals for 85 years. In 2011, Francis M. Naumann and his wife, Marie T. Keller, edited a selection of her journals involving her life in the world of art.[15][16] Sources
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Beatrice Wood; 1893–1998|url=https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/beatrice-wood|website=National Museum of Women in the Arts|accessdate=22 May 2017}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Beatrice Wood Collection : Historical Note|url=http://www.philamuseum.org/pma_archives/ead.php?c=BWC&p=hn|website=Philadelphia Museum of Art|publisher=Philadelphia Museum of Art|accessdate=22 May 2017}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|last=Smith|first=Roberta|title=Beatrice Wood, 105, Potter and Mama of Dada is dead|newspaper=New York Times|date=March 14, 1998}} 4. ^{{cite web|last=Karlstrom|first=Paul|title=Oral history interview with Beatrice Wood, 1976 August 26|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-beatrice-wood-12423|accessdate=11 October 2015}} 5. ^Internet Broadway Database: Beatrice Wood Credits on Broadway 6. ^{{cite book|last=Bobbye|first=Tigerman|title=Handbook of California Design|year=2013|publisher=The Los Angeles Country Museum of Art and The MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|isbn=0262518384|pages=302–303}} 7. ^{{Cite book|title=Sculpture 1900-1940|last=Curtis|first=Penelope|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999|isbn=|location=|pages=144}} 8. ^Spencer Jon Helfen Fine Arts 9. ^Bright Lights Film Journal | Jules and Jim 10. ^Garth Clark, Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Art and Life of Beatrice Wood,Guild Publishing, 2001 11. ^Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Art and Life of Beatrice Wood, Garth Clark, Guild Publishing, 2001 12. ^{{cite book|author=Wood, Beatrice|title=I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood|year=1985|publisher=San Francisco: Chronicle Books}} 13. ^Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay, overleaf for page 7, Harper, 1998 14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.laweekly.com/film/2959/beatrice-and-hubert/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-03-16 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312073344/http://www.laweekly.com/film/2959/beatrice-and-hubert/ |archivedate=2007-03-12 |df= }}, LA Weekly 15. ^See Francis M. Naumann and Marie T. Keller, eds, "My Life in Art: Excerpts from the Diaries of Beatrice Wood," in Beatrice Wood: Career Woman--Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, and Objects, exh. cat., Santa Monica Museum of Art, September 10, 2011 - March 3, 2012, pp. 72-131. 16. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18PACIFIC.html "Unearthing Lost Treasures in California"], New York Times, 13 March 2010 Other
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