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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
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.
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.
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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