CUBIST, WHOOSE TEACHING SKILLS WERE COMPARABLE TO SIREN’S SONGS – Andrè Lhote

ANDRE’ LHOTE 1/3 – He was a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life. His way of painting? Complex of interacting systems and geometric shapes, with no precise modulated colors. He was born in Bordeaux and from the age of twelve he began to carve and sculpt the wood. He enrolled at the School of Fine Arts, endeavoring decorative sculpture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HerqfNOwfIs Only since 1905 he left the study of sculpture and moved to Paris, dedicated to painting. He began to exhibit his work (under the influence of Gauguin and Cézanne) in salons and galleries. Visiting France, you can admire his “French Landscape” (oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm painted in 1912) in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.

ANDRE’ LHOTE 2/3 – He contributed to the art journal Nouvelle Revue Française and became director of a school in Montparnasse, where considerable number of artists from all over the world wanted to listen the teacher, whose teaching skills were comparable to the siren’s song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvp4ej0gIGg The constructive rigor of the Cubist movement made him develop a geometric style, in which also lived the traditional painting with figurative subjects taken from the daily life. If you want to discover one of his masterpieces “Escale” (oil on canvas, 210 x 185 cm painted in 1913), you can visit the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The First World War had interrupted his work, but after his discharge from the army he returned to painting in the Cubist style.

ANDRE’ LHOTE 3/3 – This skilled carver encouraged his students to spend the summer in the countryside in order to work together, in what he liked to call “the Academy of Golf.” He lectured extensively in France, Belgium, England, Italy and in Egypt and Brazil. Until the end he continued to express himself artistically with decorations and murals. http://andre-lhote.org/academy His work was rewarded with the Grand Prix National de Peinture for 1955, and the UNESCO commission for sculpture appointed him president of the International Association of Painters, Engravers and Sculptors. He died in Paris in 1962.

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