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Henri Michaux (Namur, May 24th 1899 - Paris, October 19th 1984) is a writer, Poète and Belgian painter of origin of expression Francophone naturalized French in 1955. Its work is often attached to the surrealist current , even if it did not belong to the movement.

Biography

Michaux passes its childhood, in a family of easy hatters, in Brussels, street Defacqz 69. After having remained in a boarding school of from Antwerp area, it continues its studies with the College Saint-Michel where it has as a school-fellow future the poet Geo Norge.

Distressed teenager, his first literary experiments are marked by the frequentation of Tolstoï and Dostoïevski. Even if it reads much during its studies at the Jésuites, it is not directed first of all towards the writing but towards the Médecine, that it will give up rather quickly however to engage as sailor in the Marine. It sails in 1920 and 1921 but must unload, its boat being disarmed. About at the same time, the discovery of Lautréamont pushes it to write. It will leave there Cas madness circular in 1922, first text which gives already an idea of its style. Then the writings follow one another ( Dreams and the Leg in 1923, Which I was in 1927,…) and the styles multiply.

In the Twenties, he collaborates actively in the review of avant-garde the green Disc rested by Franz Hellens.

For this period, it goes to Paris. Consequently, it will not cease disavowing all that attaches it to the Belgium.

In addition to the purely poetic texts, it writes notebooks of real voyages ( Ecuador in 1929, a barbarian in Asia in 1933) or imaginary ( Ailleurs in 1948, among much of others), of the accounts of its experiments with the Drogue S, and in particular the Mescaline ( Misérable miracle in 1956, Connaissance by the pits in 1961,…), of the collections of Aphorism S and reflections ( Passages in 1950, Posts of angle in 1971,…), etc

Parallel to the writing, as of 1925, it starts to be interested in the Peinture and all graphic arts in general. Exposed for the first time in 1937, it then does not cease working, at the point even as its graphic production partly takes the step on its written production. During all its life, it will practice the watercolour as much as the drawing with the pencil, the gouache that engraving or ink. It is also interested in the penmanship which it will use in many its works.

Henri Michaux belongs to the painters brought together for the exposure the lyrical flight, Paris 1945-1956 presented to the Museum of Luxembourg (Sénat), April-August 2006 ( Without title , 1948; Six drawings for “Movements” , 1949; Without title , 1951, Drawing mescalinien , 1955): ISBN 8876246797.

Works

  • Dreams and the legs , 1923

  • Fables of the origins, green Disc, * Which I was , 1927
  • My Properties, * Ecuador , 1929
  • a barbarian in Asia , 1933
  • the night stirs up , 1935
  • Voyage into Large Garabagne , 1936
  • Slowed down, * Remote interior , 1938
  • Feather , 1938
  • Paintings. GLM, * With the country of the Magic , 1941
  • Trees of the Tropics , 1942
  • the Space of the inside , 1944
  • Tests, exorcisms , 1940 - 1944
  • Here, Poddema , 1946
  • Paintings and drawings. The point of the day, * Meidosems. The point of the day.
  • Elsewhere , 1948
  • Us two still. Lambert, 1948
  • Life in the folds , 1949
  • Poetry to be able. Drouin, 1949
  • Passages , 1950
  • Movements , 1952
  • Vis-a-vis the bolts , 1954
  • Infinite turbulent the , 1957
  • Peace in the breakings , 1959
  • Knowledge by the pits , 1961
  • Winds and dust , 1962
  • Great Tests of the spirit and innumerable small the , 1966
  • Ways of deadened, ways of waked up , 1969
  • Posts of angle , 1971
  • Misérable miracle (mescaline) , 1972
  • By dreaming starting from enigmatic paintings , 1972
  • Émergences, resurgences , 1972
  • Moments, crossed time , 1973
  • When fall the roofs , 1973
  • By the way of the rates/rhythms , 1974
  • Idéogrammes in China , 1975
  • Crushing arguments , 1975
  • Vis-a-vis what conceals , 1976
  • Devastated the , 1976
  • Days of silence , 1978
  • To seize , 1979
  • a way for the insubordination , 1980
  • Confrontations , 1981
  • sought Ways, ways lost, transgressions , 1982
  • the Beginnings , 1983
  • the Garden exalté , 1983
  • By surprised , 1983
  • By features , 1984
  • Displacements, releases , 1985 (posthumous)
  • Meetings (with Paolo Marinotti) , 1991 (posthumous)
  • Plays of ink. Way Zao Wou-Ki , 1993 (posthumous)
  • While thinking in the future , 1994 (posthumous)
  • I would excuse an anonymous assembly… , 1994 (posthumous)
  • Remotely , 1996 (posthumous)

See too

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