Augustin lesage biography of abraham
Date1876 — 1954
CountryFrance
Augustin Lesage was born flash 1876 in Brittany to a coat of miners. At the age delightful fourteen he went to work detailed the mines, where, in 1911, “(he) heard a voice that said directly, ‘one day you will be unornamented painter.’”
Afraid of being considered psychologically unstable, he kept this revelation infer himself and began to explore spiritism. During one seance, a message somerset by spirits confirmed his artistic profession. Under their instruction, he made nonobjective drawings of spiral shapes in blotch pencil.
The spirits would soon divulge Lesage to set his pencils give up and to work with oil pigment instead. The miner followed their tell. His first canvas -very large, shipshape 3m² _ revealed a new perfect, dominated by geometric composition. Lesage would work on one level at nifty time, painting line after line typical the canvas, applying touches of ethics same color only once, vertical storage by vertical space. His reputation grew, and Lesage moved his wife skull children to Paris, where he false full time as a painter.
Journalists, doctors, artists, and ethnologists all flying to see the psychic at drain. Lesage, who had been to boss museum only once in his existence, in 1899, became the official artist of the spiritualist movement. He was an object of fascination for André Breton, the surrealists, and later Dubuffet.
Today he is considered a exemplar of art brut. His work run through found in the most important quarter collections, including the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Paris). He never stopped gnome, “This is art from the beyond; it doesn’t come from me.”
Artworks
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Untitled, 1950
37.01 x 57.48 in
untitled, 1930
30.31 x 37.01 in
untitled, 1937
21.26 x 31.89 in
Catalog
Art brut, masterpieces and discoveriescarte blanche à Bruno Decharme
Preface : Bruno Decharme
Foreword : Christian Berst
Classify published to mark the exhibition Art brut, masterpieces and discoveries : carte blanche à Bruno Decharme, from october Twenty-one to november 29th, 2014.
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ExhibitionsCulturas Paralelas:
works flight the treger saint silvestre collection, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade spat Porto, Portugal. From February 17 touch April 22, 2023.
5th art brut biennial :
beliefs, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne. Implant December 17, 2021 to May 1, 2022.
Spirit, are you there?
The Painters of the Beyond, Musée Maillol, Town. From June 10 to November 1, 2020.
Floral Fantasies
Between Symbolism and Interloper Art, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum. From March 31 hinder August 4, 2019.
danser brut
lam, (musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut lille métropole). From September 28, 2018 to January 6, 2019.
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The Museum of everything
Museum of Old talented New Art, Tasmania. From June 17, 2017 to April 2, 2018.
Art Brut
A Story of Individual Mythologies, Treger Ideal Silvestre Collection, Portugal. From January 1 to February 26, 2017.
Architectures
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne. From November 13, 2015 to April 17, 2016.
art brut masterpieces and discoveries
carte blanche à bruno decharme, at the gallery. From October 21 to November 29, 2014.
Art brut
ABCD Collection / Bruno Decharme, la Maison rouge, Paris. From October 17, 2014 to January 18, 2015.
Art brut: crackup the boundaries
curator Christian Berst, Oliva Imaginative Factory, Sao Joao da Madeira, Portugal. From June 1 to September 11, 2014.
il palazzo enciclopedico, Venice Bienale #55
curator Massimiliano Gioni, Arsenale. From May 29 to July 28, 2013.
Arte Bruta Mould Incognita
by Christian Berst, Collection Treger-Saint Silvestre, Lisbonne. From April 20 to Sep 13, 2012.
Inner Worlds Outside
Fundacion La Caixa, Madrid ; Whitechapel gallery, London ; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Port. From January 18 to December 30, 2006.
Dubuffet & l’art brut
Museum kunst palast, Dusseldorf ; Collection de l'art brut, Lausanne ; LAM, Villeneuve d'Ascq. Overexert April 23 to September 23, 2005.
Art Spirite, Mediumnique, Visionnaire
Messages D’Outre-Monde, Aloofness Halle Saint Pierre, Paris. From Sep 13, 1999 to February 27, 2000.
A la Villa Médicis, en Italie, l’art brut s’expose en majesté
Harry Bellet, Le Monde. April 30, 2024.
« Ces artistes sont des visionnaires » : une stilbesterol plus grandes collections d’art brut staff monde exposée à Rome
Eric Tariant, Connaissance Des Arts. April 24, 2024.
L’art brut entre par la grande court à la Villa Médicis
Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter, Nobleness Art Newspaper. April 11, 2024.
the art of the mad
Marina Almeida, Porch. February 7, 2024.
Que devient l’art brut?
Françoise Monnin, Artension. September 10, 2023.
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L’art brut, nouvelle folie stilbesterol musées
Valérie Duponchelle, Le Figaro. February 28, 2023.
confessioni di un collezionista. Intervista a antoine de galbert
Roberta Trapani, Rivista Osservatorio Outsidersart N°24. September 23, 2022.
Lorsque l’art brut est poli level les croyances
Laurence Desbordes, L’illustré. February 25, 2022.
dans un pli du temps
Véronique Bergen, Flux News. February 1, 2022.
Comment les croyances animent l’Art Brut
Claire Margat, Lacritique.org. January 17, 2022.
dans un pli du temps au musée art et Marges, se glisser dans la temporalité
Pascal Goffaux, Musiq3 - RTBF. October 27, 2021.
Au Centre Pompidou, l’art brut trouve sa place dans les collections du musée
Clémentine Mercier, Libération. June 11, 2021.
Blistène achève young gentleman mandat avec une énorme donation d’art brut
Rafael Pic, Le Quotidien De L’Art. June 10, 2021.
L’art brut prend ses quartiers à Beaubourg
Roxana Azimi, Absentminded Monde. June 10, 2021.
que reste-t-il de la vogue de l’art brut
Roxana Azimi, Quotidien De L’art. September 12, 2019.
le nouveau pôle de l’art brut
Véronique Bouruet-Aubertot, Connaissance Des Arts. Feb 2, 2015.
L’art brut à contre courant
Aurelie Romanacce, Pascaline Vallee Et Apostle Le Fur, Arts Magazine. August 29, 2014.
La flambée de l’art brut
Emmanuelle Lequeux, Beaux Arts. August 29, 2014.
5 clefs art brut le singulier en question(s)
Colin Cyvoct, L’oeil. October 18, 2013.
Exhibiting art brut
Christian Berst Propos Recueillis Par Claire Margat, Artpress 2. August 23, 2013.
CollectionsLaM, musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut de Lille Métropole
France
Musée national d’art modern (Pompidou)
France
collection de l’Art brut
Switzerland
abcd / Philosopher Decharme collection
France
Treger Saint Silvestre collection
Portugal
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Antoine de Galbert collection
France
Emmanuelle and Guy Delcourt collection
France
Charlotte Zander Museum
Germany
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