Andre masson biography

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Biography

The classically trained French painter, printmaker and designer Andre Masson was one of the leading figures within the Surrealism movement, which dominated modern art in Europe during the interwar years.

He was a pioneer of Automatism in art, and exploited chance and accident as part of his creative technique. However, although active in the movement and a close friend of Joan Miro (1893-1983) and Max Ernst (1891-1976) - two of the leading Surrealist artists - he remained his own man, borrowing motifs and ideas from Cubism and other trends within the Ecole de Paris.

Indeed, after joining the Surrealist group in 1922-3, he then left it in 1929 to focus on the human condition. Later, as a refugee from Occupied France, he made a notable contribution to Abstract Expressio André Masson Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory JAC