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Born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927.
Both a painter and a graphic artist, Pierre Alechinsky was one of the international expressionist group of artists named CoBrA -- Copenhagen/Brussels/Amsterdam -- whose doctrine insisted on violent color and free expression, and was strongly influenced by children's painting and the art of non-European cultures. Contact in France with calligraphers led to a trip to Japan in 1955, where he made a film: Calligraphic Japonaise.
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Early paintings -- such as "Ant Hill"(1954), in the Guggenheim -- made use of tightly interwoven, structured elements; since then his paintings have evolved to become more open and the coloring has become more quiet than his CoBrA past.
Alechinsky's travels have taken him to the New World as well as the Orient; currently he lives in Paris. |
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