Andr Masson, Homage to Michelangelo, Original Etching, 1975 for sale at Pamono

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Homage to Michelangelo is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1975 by Andr Masson (Balagny, 1896). Original Colored Etching on paper. Dimensions: 85 x 60 cm. Frame is included. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower right corner. Very good conditions. The work of Andr Masson (Balagny, 1896) has an important place in the development of Surrealism. He began his studies before 1914, at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He served in the Great War in the fighting lines, and was severely wounded. The war experience of Masson affected him very deeply. The abnormal realities of trench warfare, with its domination by extreme violence, its immediate contiguity of life and death, presented questions of the motivation of human behavior. His work has been an essay in confronting life at that-level of experience. Masson went to Paris in 1922, and associated with Miro and with the poets. Armand Salacrou, Michel Leiris and Georges Limbour. His interest in the deeper reality of man’s behavior drew him to Surrealism. In 1924 he met Andre Breton, joined the Surrealist group, and exhibited with them for some years. He became very involved with non-rational purpose in art, in developing drawing and painting as nearly as possible as direct thought transference. With Miro he produced ‘automatic’ drawings. These allowed the free movement of the pen line, without pre-thought or condition of any kind. To obtain the same effect in painting, Masson used drawn continuous lines of glue on the canvas, adding the color by coating with different Coloured sands.