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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.
Artists Picasso | Pollock | Braque | Calder | Chagall | Dalí | Ernst | Kandinsky | Léger | Magritte | Miró | Modigliani | Brancusi | Brauner | Campigli | Chirico | Delaunay | Delvaux | Duchamp | Fini | Hartung | Kooning | Laurens | Malevich | Man Ray | Masson | Marini | Mondrian | Pegeen | Pevsner | Picabia | Tanguy | Tapies | Twombly | Warhol
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