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André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Biography [ edit ] This section needs expansion with: more details about the artist's life after WWI.
André Masson was one of the pioneers of Surrealism. He specialized in dreamscapes of writhing mythological figures and tortured natural forms.
André Masson (born January 4, 1896, Balagny, Oise, France—died October 28, 1987, Paris) was a noted French Surrealist painter and graphic artist. Masson studied painting in Brussels and then in Paris. He fought in World War I and was severely wounded.
André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but when he was eight his father's work took the family first briefly to Lille and then to Brussels.
André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist.
Artist biography. André Masson born 1896 [- 1987] French painter, sculptor, illustrator, designer and writer, born at Balagny (Oise). Spent most of his youth in Brussels, where he worked as pattern-drawer in an embroidery studio and studied part-time at the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
André Masson was a French artist whose work has been cited as the bridge between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. View André Masson’s 6,534 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
André Masson began automatic drawings with no preconceived subject or composition in mind. Like a medium channeling a spirit, he let his pen travel rapidly across the paper without conscious control.
The image that emerged suggests a savage underwater battle between sharp–toothed fish. Masson, who was physically and spiritually wounded during World War I, joined the Surrealist group in 1924. He believed that, if left to chance, pictorial compositions would reveal the sadism of all living creatures. Gallery label from 2007.
Homage to the Chicago School 1/100, 1983. Richard John Haas. Untitled, 1981. Robert A. M. Stern. Mulhouse, the dynamic city in South Alsace and the center of gravity of the Rhine industry, was able to get rid of some neighborhoods with less character and innovate them.
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