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Charles Angrand
(1854-1926) French, Pointillist, NeoImpressionist
His Style Was
Influenced by the following Painters and Art movements -Jean-Baptiste-Camille
Corot,
Henri Cross,
Paul
Signac,
Jean Auguste
Ingres,
Maximilien Luce,
Renoir
and
Japanese prints
and
Art Nouveau Education -
Ecole Municipale des Beaux-Arts in Rouen Mediums - oil
on canvas, pastel, drawing, bronze Cause of Death
- Old Age
Biography
When Seurat died suddenly on March 29, 1891, Angrand became
heartbroken with grief and spiraled into a deep depression. For a long
while the joy and brightness seemed to leave Angrand and he gave up
painting. He went to Normandy and gave up painting. Angrand
died disillusion by the art world in 1926.
The French Impressionist and Pointillist painter Charles
Angrand, grew up in a middleclass home in Criquetot-sur-Ouville, France.
His father was a local headmaster and his mother took in ironing when
times got tough. Young Charles was a gifted artist from a young age.
When he moved to Paris in the fall of 1882 he met
Georges Signac
and Seurat,
through a prostitute who also worked as a model. The three artists
became great friends almost immediately, spending hours at cafes
drinking absinthe and discussing art. Angrand soon
fell under the spell of Georges Seurat, and took up his pointillist
style. In 1884 he helped found the Salon des Indépendants along with a
group of avant-garde painters in Paris. To make ends meet he also gave
art lessons at the Lycée Chaptal in Paris.
Angrand revealed himself to be strongly gifted from the start of his painting career. His early Pointillist paintings reveal a strong foundation in drawing. His colors are amazingly dazzling. He painted women with a airy naturalness and sensitivity. His larger portraits, landscapes with figures and seascapes reveal him as a lover of light. Charles Angrand's airy palette tended to more far more whimsical than his fellow painters. He subject matter focused on quaint Parisian neighborhoods, nudes bathing by rivers, the French countryside and serious interior scenes.
joyous brightness
Angrand juxtaposed small
dots of pure color
together to maximize
luminosity. The dots
appeared to intermingle
and blend in the
observer's eye. He
rejected the haphazard
spontaneity of
Impressionism in support
of this radical
innovative painting
technique.
He loved to work
outside, en plein air,
preferring to paint
directly from life.
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Important Pointillist Painters
Listed Alphabetically
Charles Angrand (1854-1926) French
Georges Lemmen (1865 - 1916) Belgian
Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891) French
Paul Signac (1863 - 1935) French
Theo Van Rysselberghe (1862 - 1926) Belgian
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