1. Jean Messagier was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet.
21 Facts About Jean Messagier
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Jean Messagier had his first solo exhibition in Paris at Galerie Arc-en-Ciel in 1947.
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From 1962 until the year of his death Jean Messagier exhibited in France and abroad, taking part in some major international events as a representative of new trends in French painting.
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Jean Messagier spent his childhood during the 1920s and 1930s between Paris and Franche-Comte, where he realized his first representational watercolors and drawings ; portraits and landscapes.
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Jean Messagier would participate in the Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Salon Comparaisons, Peinture informelle and the Salon d'Octobre of which he was one of the founding members.
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In 1943, at the age of 23, Jean Messagier held his first solo exhibition at the Chateau de Montbeliard.
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In 1944 Jean Messagier married the ceramicist Marcelle Baumann.
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In 1947 Jean Messagier realized his first sculptures, exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris and held a solo exhibit at the Galerie Arc-en-Ciel in Paris.
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Jean Messagier then showed at the Galerie de Babylone in 1952 entitled "La Nouvelle Ecole de Paris", organized by Charles Etienne, the art critic who would become the spokesman for the new lyrical and expressionist movement.
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Jean Messagier co-founded the Salon d'Octobre in Paris and exhibited there in 1952 and 1953.
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Between 1953 and 1956 Messagier refined his pictorial vocabulary to include a kind of symmetry, closer in spirit to W Blake than to the constructivists.
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Allusive and dissolved forms that he painted so far gave way to vast indeterminate stretches of monochrome color, expressing Jean Messagier's unswerving commitment to nature, air and light.
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On July 13th, 1962, to inaugurate his new studio located in an old mill next to "les Trois cantons" at the foot of the Charrot bridge that spans the Doubs river, Jean Messagier organized his first massive party lasting several days.
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Jean Messagier renewed that spirit as much as he could.
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In 1962, Jean Messagier represented France at the 31st Venice Biennale alongside Alfred Manessier, Serge Poliakoff, Andrew Marfaing and James Guitet.
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Between 1963 and 1965 Jean Messagier made grass sculptures, snow drawings and won a medal for his entry in Pour un ete, La Monnaie de Paris.
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One year later, in the 8th Sao Paulo Art Biennial, Jean Messagier represented France along with four other artists.
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Jean Messagier was awarded Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres and in 1978 exhibited in the 7th Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries.
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Jean Messagier's landscapes were reduced to a point where only a trace of gesture remained.
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Jean Messagier's goal had been the reconciliation between art and life, between man and nature.
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Jean Messagier's gesture is life, his colors impressions and sensations of nature.