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Painting dreamscapes of writhing mythological figures and tortured natural forms, André Masson combined the two main visual techniques of Surrealism: biomorphic abstraction and automatic techniques.
- January 4, 1896
- October 28, 1987
- January 4, 1896
- October 28, 1987
- Automatic Drawing Andre Masson 1924.
- Pupae to Toledo Andre Masson 1935.
- Iconic views of Toledo Andre Masson 1936.
- Pasiphae Andre Masson 1937.
His brother-in-law, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, was the last private owner of Gustave Courbet's provocative painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World); Lacan asked Masson to paint a surrealist variant.
Masson’s paintings and drawings from the late 1920s and the ’30s are turbulent, suggestive renderings of scenes of violence, eroticism, and physical metamorphosis. A natural draftsman, he used sinuous, expressive lines to delineate biomorphic forms that border on the totally abstract.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The classically trained French painter, printmaker and designer Andre Masson was one of the leading figures within the Surrealism movement, which dominated modern art in Europe during the interwar years.
He began to create paintings of metamorphoses of animal and human forms, themes of germination, combats and massacres, with emphasis on violence and eroticism. Together with his different political stance from Andre Breton, these massacre paintings led to him being expelled from the surrealist group in 1929.
André Masson was a French artist whose work has been cited as the bridge between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. View André Masson’s 6,550 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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