André Masson « The Armour » at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice

André Masson The Armour Painting - Oil on Canvas (80.6 x 54 cm) April 1925

In this painting, « The Armour » (L'Armure), André Masson, integrates surrealism into analytical Cubism.

While he still respects Cubism's rules by limiting the chromatic range in his work, the eroticism expressed therein proclaims surrealism.

« The Armour » seems to express the frustration, the frustration in the love of the artist.

Here, the word armour becomes the symbol of an inaccessible body with a particularly aggressive and protected breast, "metallic".

A body without arms, with a head "detached" from the preeminent bust in the picture.

The combination of curves and angles gives much power and movement to this work by Masson.

André Masson The Armour