Armand Massonet
Armand Massonet (born in 1892 - deceased in 1979) was a Belgian painter .
He made his studies with the Academy of the Art schools of Brussels and with the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts to Paris (in the class of Fernand Cormon), where he followed the traces of van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. During the First World War, Massonet was useful in the Belgian army like Brancardier while working for the military artistic section, crunching scenes of war and devastation through all Belgium. While it was with the face, it published an artistic newspaper and literary heading the Opera hat at Fund . After the war, he taught the drawing in various schools and academies of Brussels, while publishing books and articles on the art and the techniques of drawing. He worked with various artists and writers of the time, such as Victor Horta, Rene Lyr and Victor Boin. After the Second world war it settled in Paris, where it continued to paint and publish books on art and painting. It is there that it became acquainted with painters such as Maurice de Vlaminck.
The work of Massonet reveals an aptitude particular to crunch and seize the movement and the light. As a painter, it as well as carried out many sights of cities (Brussels, Paris, Venice) of the indoor scenes. Its paintings approached also the topic of the music and the dance, with portraits of jazz bands and pianists. It produced many posters and advertisement drawings for companies like Philips and Agfa-Gevaert.
One can see his works in museums of Brussels, Rheims and Rīga.
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