ANDRE’ AIME’ MASSON 1/3 – In his long life, this master of surrealist painting has brought the fruits of his creativity in many places, such as Venice and Berlin, crossing several personal trials. After World War II, he went to live in Aix-en-Provence, painting landscapes, but the outbreak of World War II he had seen a great sea: the sadness of seeing regarded as “works degenerate” expressions of his creativity. For this he had known the Atlantic Ocean, New York and Connecticut, leaving lasting stylistic imprint, for all creative, in that land not his own, making use of surrealism, to view free associations dream into reality, even bloody and dramatic. ANDRE’ AIME’ MASSON 2/3 – At the end of the twenties, the way surrealism expressed in art, for it had become a prison, and his freedom had found new colors and themes, where violence and eroticism danced, between colors. Before that, Masson had danced in the pictorial creativity in a different way, looking insistently these reduced states of consciousness (with the help of drugs, sleep deprivation and fasting), where to look for the unconscious creative invisibility. In those years, that by him was born it was the result of design and auto-painting, where with pen and ink, or with drops of color on canvas, sand and glue stains created the ultimate visual impact: the creation of random shapes. ANDRE’ AIME’ MASSON 3/3 – The man who, together with André Breton in the postwar period had met the surrealist circles, he had kept in his creative mind all the horrible battle scars: a wound in the chest and one with the primal forces of his way of thinking. In 1922, after his internment in a psychiatric hospital and two years of wandering in the south of France, he arrives in Paris. Thanks to a major art dealer, began to devote himself to painting on an ongoing basis. The man who was born in Picardy in the distant winter day, the boy who had matured at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the artist who had loved cubism at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, at the age of 91 years he had finished exploring the world of the irrational, considering art as a sublimation of conflicts that fill our lives. You can see more on Meeting Benches, looking for: ANDRE’ AIME’ MASSON (1896/1987), FRENCH PAINTER – Exploring the irrational: from cubism to surrealism, with the force of primary energies
