1940
Miserablism
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Miserablism
Miserablism was an art movement that was founded in France in the 1940s.
Paintings of this style express particularly melancholy and depression.
This movement derived from the Expressionism of French artist Francis Gruber, in which the characters of the paintings just began to weaken and dry out. Mostly, figurative exhaustion is observed in paintings by Bernard Buffet. The thinness of the characters and the shape of the skull of most characters resemble the actual constitution of the artist’s body. Sculptures of A. Giacometti can be referred to as Miserablism.
Techniques: oil and canvas. Genres: subject-themed, religious, still life and portrait.
Key ideas:
– The palette is cold, mostly gray, dirty “scratched” shades of light yellow, beige, brown and red. Shades of gray resemble the pallor of the skin of an exhausted person.
– The philosophical implication is the crisis of the optimism of human existence.
– Artistic combination of Expressionism, Cubism and graphics.
– A characteristic feature is atrophied figurativeness in the interior. Figures have physical exhaustion, angularity, weakness; however, these are just interpretations of ethical tragedy: detachment, disappointment, doom and asceticism.
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A French painter and graphic artist, lithographer and sculptor, a creator of a distinctively special sketch style that combined avant-garde painting with salon art.Was born into the family of a factory director. Was expelled from the Carnot lyceum with the wording of the Directorate: “he does not know how to learn and must find his own way in drawing”. The youth of the future artist passed in the occupied city, where the shortage of the most necessary and the absence of freedom were acutely felt. In 1943 - 1945, he attended the evening courses of the School of Drawing from Darfeil and studied at the School of Fine Arts in the studio of artist Narbonne, who recognized the genius of his pupil. His fellow students were M. Boitel, J. Picco, L. Willermoz.He was already recognized by the age of 20, for works that conveyed a melancholic mood and reflected the atmosphere in society after World War II. B. Buffet was greatly recognized during his lifetime, he was awarded many prestigious awards and prizes. Several paintings from the Passion of Christ series are in the Vatican Museum (Modern Religious Art Collection) the artist who created over 8,000 works is represented in dozens of the best museums around the world. In France and Japan, there are museums of the artist.
1928 - 1999