Gustave singer biography examples

Unifying the extremes of reality and abstraction at the height of post-war cultural politics and intrigue, Gustave Singier and a small group of fellow artists including Jean Bazaine, Alfred Manessier, and Jean Le Moal established a new aesthetic of pure poetical expression, creating a fluid dialectical exchange between man and nature, comparable in literature to Proust and Joyce.

This group, first known as Témoignage, was initially formed by Marcel Michaud in 1938 when they exhibited at René Bretau’s Galerie Matières, on Rue des Canettes, in Paris.

During the war, despite the Occupation, the group managed to hold two further highly important and controversial exhibitions in Paris, in protest of the Nazi’s neo-classical aestheticism and denigration of abstract art as “Degenerate”.

The first, organised by Jean Bazaine and André Lejard at Galerie Braun in 1941, was Peintres de la Tradition Française, it inc