Armand Pierre Fernandez
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Armand Pierre Fernandez |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Nice, France |
| Nationality: |
French |
| Birth: |
1928 |
| Death: |
2005 |
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Quick Facts
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Sculpture, mixed media |
| Style: |
Nouveau Realism (New Realism) |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Sculptor
Painter
Printmaker |
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Biography
Born in a family of art dealers in Nice, he learns oil painting and photography early on, and after receiving his bachelor's degree in philosophy and mathematics in 1946, Arman begins studying at the Ecole Nationale d'Art Decoratif in Nice. During that same period at a police Judo School he meets the artists Yves Klein and Claude Pascal, and subsequently the trio will become a power bond in the Nouveau Realism movement. At first more interested in abstract painting, in the late 50s he begins his early 'accumulations' - metallic sculptures composed of molded objects such as hammers, electric razors or typewriters. Later he will simply recycle things from reality to transform them into art by regrouping and accumulating objects on canvases, in transparent boxes, or stacked on top of one another. The same year he with a group of artist friends funded the Nouveau Realism movement he started making his "Poubelles" works, which he filled the Galerie Iris Clert in Paris with as a contrepoint of the exhibition called "Le Vide" presented at the same gallery two years earlier by his friend Yves Klein. Admiring New York's art scene, he leaves for the city that never sleeps in 1961, befriends Warhol and becomes an American citizen in 1973.
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