1. Albert Jean Gorin was a French neoplastic painter and constructive sculptor.
25 Facts About Jean Gorin
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Jean Gorin was a disciple of Piet Mondrian, and remained true to the concept of rigid geometricism and use of primary colors, but pushed the limits of neoplasticism by introducing circles and diagonals.
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Albert Jean Gorin was born on 2 December 1899 in Saint-Emilien-de-Blain, Loire-Atlantique.
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Jean Gorin's father made shoes and his mother managed a small hotel with a restaurant.
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Jean Gorin was influenced by Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and the Expressionists.
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Jean Gorin settled in Nort-sur-Erdre, near Nantes and began painting, while working to earn a living.
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In 1925 Gorin visited the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris where the Pavillon de L'Esprit Nouveau showed work by Amedee Ozenfant and Le Corbusier.
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In 1926 Jean Gorin saw for the first time one of Piet Mondrian's neoplastic compositions, and one of Theo van Doesburg's elementarist compositions.
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Jean Gorin read the pamphlet L'Art et son avenir by Georges Vantongerloo.
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Around this time Jean Gorin began painting in the neoplastic style.
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In 1930 Jean Gorin participated in the first exhibition of Seuphor's recently founded the Cercle et Carre group.
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Jean Gorin created his first neoplastic relief in 1930, and created three-dimensional work for the remainder of the inter-war period.
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In 1931 Jean Gorin was one of the founders of the 1940 association of artists.
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Jean Gorin exhibited there with Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg.
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Jean Gorin participated in the new Abstraction-Creation group of painters.
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Jean Gorin began creating reliefs using planes set in space, and continued to study architecture.
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Jean Gorin settled in Grasse for a while, where he had a shop in which he sold objects d'art and decoration.
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Jean Gorin would make and photograph sculptures, then destroy them since he did not have space to keep them.
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Jean Gorin did not gain full recognition until major retrospectives were held between 1965 and 1973 in Nantes, Amsterdam, Paris, Grenoble and Saint Etienne.
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Jean Gorin died on 29 March 1981 in Niort, Deux-Sevres.
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Jean Gorin was the greatest French disciple of Mondrian, but pushed the principles of neoplasticism further than others by using reliefs, which developed into wall sculptures.
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Jean Gorin always used the primary colors of bright red, light yellow and ultramarine blue on white and black backgrounds.
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Jean Gorin broke from Mondrian's rule of allowing only horizontal and vertical lines.
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Between 1958 and 1962 Jean Gorin was absorbed in painting the contrast between the circle and the linear network.
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Jean Gorin's works were now truly three-dimensional, designed to retain harmony while viewed from different angles rather than as compositions seen only from the front.