Victor Mr.
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Victor Mr. |
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Piatra Neamt, Moldova |
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Biography
| As a child, he shared his parents passionate interest in spiritualism, announcing a concern with hidden. In 1912, he accompanied his family to Vienna, and from 1916 to 1918 attended school in evangelical Brasla, studying zoology with great enthusiasm. He also began to paint. In 1921, he spent a brief period in the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where his first exhibition was held in 1924 in the Galerie Mozart. The same year, Mr. and the poet Review Voronca founded the review 75HP, which published his manifesto of Pictopoesie and an article on Le Surrationalisme. From 1928 until 1931, he worked with the Dadaists and reviewed Surrealists, which plays out in his drawings and paintings. In Paris in 1930, he met Constantin Brancusi, who introduced him to the picture, and Yves Tanguy. Turning to Bucharest briefly in 1935, he joined the clandestine Romanian Communist Party but left in 1936 in the beginning of the Soviet Union show trials. Mr. lost his left eye in a scuffle in Oscar Dominguezs studio. Later, he wrote that it was the most painful and important fact of his life. A period of somnambulatory erotic paintings, full of lycanthropic, chimeric and alchemical images was interrupted during the Second World War. Mr. fled to Perpignan and then to the Pyrenees, maintaining contact with the exiles surrealist group in Marseille. Mr. settled in the Hautes-Alpes in 1942. Without painting materials in hand, he began his sailing drawings, inspired by stone textures and painted with coffee or walnut stain on relief drawings executed in wax. Paper Collage was introduced in the Ideal man and the sculpture ithyphallic Number. Mr. painted Leon, light, freedom, on seven canvases conceived as a single work was exhibited at the Galerie Cahiers dart in 1947. A one man show on the Galerie Pierre Loeb in 1946 preceded its participation in the exhibition Internationale du Surrealisme in the Galerie Maeght in 1947, when its catalog texts, one ostensibly by the Emperor of the kingdom of personal myth, signed Rotciv Renuarb, marked a highpoint in his megalomania. After recovering from a serious illness in Switzerland, he returned to Paris for his first major exhibition in the Galerie Rene Drouin in 1948. He was officially excluded the Surrealist group the same year by refusing to denounce his friend, Roberto Matta, whose influence is increasingly evident in Brauners painting itself. The series autobiographical account of victors or Onomatamania began in 1949. Many of these are static, two plastic works marked by bilateral symmetry and contains references to hieroglyphics and Aztecs codices. In 1953, Mr. went to work in the potter Georges Ramies studio in Vallauris, near Cannes, where he became involved with ceramics. Since 1961, he has worked in Varengeville, near Dieppe, and was elected to represent France with a room full of his works in the Venice Biennale in 1966, the year of his death. |
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