Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaume ( Fr. Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin ; February 16, 1841 , Paris France - June 26, 1927 , Orly , Val-de-Marne , France ) - French painter , better known as Armand Guillamin.
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 Self-portrait of Armand Guillaume ( 1878 ) | |
| Birth name | Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin |
| Date of Birth | February 16, 1841 |
| Place of Birth | Paris , France |
| Date of death | June 26, 1927 (86 years) |
| Place of death | Orly , France |
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Biography
Armand Giyomen was born in Paris on February 16, 1841 . At the end of the same year, the Armand family left Paris and moved to Moulins . In 1856, at the age of 16 , Arman returned to Paris and began attending art classes at the municipal school, which was taught by the sculptor Keiluhe. In 1860, Giyomen began working at the Paris-Orleans railway company. But Armand did not forget about the art classes and soon began to attend the Swiss Academy in Paris, where he met Francisco Olère , Camille Pissarro and Paul Cezanne . In 1863, Giyomen together with Edouard Manet , Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne exhibited his works in the famous exhibition “ Salon of the Outcast ”, although the works of Armand were not listed under his name.
In 1868, leaves the service to devote himself entirely to painting. Needs She makes a living by painting curtains. In 1872, forced to return to service. At the same time, he continues painting. Often comes to Pissarro in Pontoise. In September 1872, Pissarro wrote in a letter to Antoine Guillaume: “... Guillaume just spent a few days with us; in the afternoon, he is engaged in painting, and in the evening, in his sinking, what courage! ”
He took part in almost all exhibitions of the Impressionists (with the exception of the second exhibition in 1876). At the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 was presented with three paintings (landscapes). Perhaps it was this exhibition that made it possible to fully appreciate the scale of Guillaume's talent and to feel what his painting was actually in the context of impressionism. Among the works presented to them at the exhibition, the work “Sunset in Ivri” should be highlighted. The picture motif echoes the canvas by Claude Monet “ Impression. Sunrise ”: the state of the landscape sharply lit by the low sun, the dawn, the torn smoke of the factory chimneys, the multicolored glare on the water, the transparent twilight on the barely lit shore — all this with both texture and instant effect is extremely close to Monet or Pissarro. This picture was exhibited by Giyomen and at subsequent exhibitions of the Impressionists.
Being connected with the service of the city, Guillamin wrote mainly the neighborhood, the suburbs of Paris, views of the Seine, Oise, Esson and industrial landscapes. The result was the paintings “Park in Issy-les-Mulino” (1877), “The Bridge in Charenton” (1878), “View of the island of Saint-Louis” (c. 1881), “Landscape with apple trees” (1884), “Pon- Marie "(c. 1883) and others.
Acquainted with Paul Signac in 1883, and then with Georges Seurat , he began to work in the technique of pointillism .
In 1891, he won 100,000 francs in the city lottery, and this unexpected wealth gave him, at last, the opportunity to unleash his administrative work in Paris and begin to travel in search of new, more diverse motifs and types. First of all, the artist visited Saint-Palais, where he wrote “Saint-Palais, the mouth of the Gironde” (1892), “Mountains in Saint-Palais” (1893). In the period from 1893 to 1913, Giyomen also visited Krozet, Krozane, Age, Auvergne, Orne, Luen, Ayr, Rouen, and in 1904 visited Holland.
After 1913, the artist spends more and more time in Crozane , living in the south in winter and often in Paris. Among the most significant works of these years are “The Peshader Village” (1895), “The Landscape in Age” (1895), “The Mill in Bushardon” (1905), “The Creus Mountains” (1918).
Material independence in the last years of his life gave Giyomen an opportunity to devote himself entirely to painting, but, having lost contact with former friends, especially Pissarro and Monet, he could not rise above his feelings and squandered energy on trying to become strong in color, while remained weak in the composition, not possessing the breadth of vision and poetic subtlety that saved Monet from banality.
The artist died in June 1927 at the eighty-seventh year of life. Renoir's peer, Guillamin, became the “last impressionist”: he survived even Claude Monet for a year, actively worked in the first quarter of the 20th century, having a real influence on the formation of fauvism , since his advice and example was guided by Oton Freese .