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André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Biography. 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. [1] .
Summary of André Masson. 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.
View all 122 artworks. Andre Masson lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of French Surrealism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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.
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 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. He soon found hints of images—fragmented bodies and objects—emerging from the abstract, lacelike web of pen marks.
André Masson was a French artist whose work has been cited as the bridge between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. View André Masson’s 6,549 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
André Masson (French, 1896–1987) was a painter and graphic artist who promoted Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism in his works. Masson was born in Balagne, France, and moved to Brussels, Belgium, in 1904.
One of the greatest exponents of automatic drawing and sand pictures, André Masson (1896–1987) was actively involved in, and acutely aware of, the upheavals of his century, both historical and intellectual.
