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Masson, André (-Aimé-René)
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pronunciation:
[masõ]
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| Painter and graphic artist, born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, N France. He studied painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and in Paris, and was seriously wounded in World War 1. He became one of the pioneers of the Surrealist movement, having attracted the attention of André Breton in 1923. In 1941–5 he lived in Connecticut, USA, where his work had a great influence on the abstract expressionist movement. He was a leading practitioner of ‘automatic’ drawing - a technique of spontaneous composition which tried to capture unconscious feelings and images, using such materials as glue and sand, or squeezing paint tubes directly onto a canvas. His work is often erotic and violent in nature, as in ‘Massacres’ (1932–3). Other works include ‘Nioké’ (1947) and ‘Wave of the Future’ (1976), and he also illustrated Malraux's The Conquerors (1948). |
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