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French self-taught painter, nicknamed Gardener by his occupation, but more for his love of still lifes with flowers. He also painted landscapes, historical, mythological subjects and portraits.
Having started his career of a painter at the age of 46, A. Boschan created about 3,000 paintings during 40 years. Exhibitions of his works were held in many countries of Europe, the United States and Japan. He is the only French amateur painter awarded the title of Knight of the Legion of Honor for his creative work and military service. Large collections of works are in major museums in France and Germany.
Key Ideas:
- André Beauchamp made painting his main occupation at the age of 45. For his first works he used all kinds of bases: sheets of cardboard and paper, wood, table towels, tin cans, etc. Actively visiting museums and exhibitions, a lot of reading books on mythology and history, the artist is initially fond of painting exactly on bible, historical and mythological subjects, but created also still-lives and landscapes, portraits and genre cloths. He liked to combine human subjects with landscape views of forests, gardens and fields.
- The figures of people and animals at Andre obtained awkward, static and frozen in half-motion, flat, but expressive at the same time. Art historians note (and the unsophisticated viewer senses) a special poetic attitude of the painter to the depicted objects. These qualities bring to mind medieval paintings and frescos, moreover, in the color scheme Beauchamp is often close to Giotto. More than once the experts have emphasized the special manner of using unglazed surfaces, as was done by the masters of Quattrocento frescoes.
- Beauchamp's legacy includes a number of portraits, including at least a dozen of himself among flowers and with his first wife. An interesting series of self-portraits of cabinet type, when the artist has become a gray-haired respectable gentleman. Boshan seems to study the nature, depicting himself in full-face, half-turned, in profile and from the back. These portraits differ from his other oeuvre: in his desire to recreate a likeness, he has studied the features of his entire face and achieved realism in his depiction, transmitting his psychological state as well.
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Having started his career of a painter at the age of 46, A. Boschan created about 3,000 paintings during 40 years. Exhibitions of his works were held in many countries of Europe, the United States and Japan. He is the only French amateur painter awarded the title of Knight of the Legion of Honor for his creative work and military service. Large collections of works are in major museums in France and Germany.
Key Ideas:
- André Beauchamp made painting his main occupation at the age of 45. For his first works he used all kinds of bases: sheets of cardboard and paper, wood, table towels, tin cans, etc. Actively visiting museums and exhibitions, a lot of reading books on mythology and history, the artist is initially fond of painting exactly on bible, historical and mythological subjects, but created also still-lives and landscapes, portraits and genre cloths. He liked to combine human subjects with landscape views of forests, gardens and fields.
- The figures of people and animals at Andre obtained awkward, static and frozen in half-motion, flat, but expressive at the same time. Art historians note (and the unsophisticated viewer senses) a special poetic attitude of the painter to the depicted objects. These qualities bring to mind medieval paintings and frescos, moreover, in the color scheme Beauchamp is often close to Giotto. More than once the experts have emphasized the special manner of using unglazed surfaces, as was done by the masters of Quattrocento frescoes.
- Beauchamp's legacy includes a number of portraits, including at least a dozen of himself among flowers and with his first wife. An interesting series of self-portraits of cabinet type, when the artist has become a gray-haired respectable gentleman. Boshan seems to study the nature, depicting himself in full-face, half-turned, in profile and from the back. These portraits differ from his other oeuvre: in his desire to recreate a likeness, he has studied the features of his entire face and achieved realism in his depiction, transmitting his psychological state as well.
(Source: SKETCHLINE)
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