Jacques Villon

Jacques Villon , born Gaston Emile Duchamp with Damville (the Eure) the July 31st 1875 and died in Puteaux (Hauts-de-Seine) the June 9th 1963, is a painter and Graveur Cubiste French.

Biography

Jacques Villon is the second wire of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp, an easy family with the artistic temperament. Four of their six children were going to become accomplished artists. Whereas it is still young, his/her maternal grandfather Emile Frederic Nicole, made business man and artist, teaches art with his grandchildren.

He is the older brother of:

Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918), sculptor;
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), painter, sculptor and author;
Suzanne Duchamp (1889-1963), painter.

In 1894, it leaves to settle with his/her Raymond brother in the Parisian district of Montmartre and it makes its right to the Université of Paris. His/her father authorizes it to study art on the condition of continuing to study the right. To be distinguished from his brothers, Gaston Duchamp adopts the pseudonym of Jacques Villon in reference to the poet of the Moyen-âge François Villon.

The rise of the artistic community of Montmartre where he saw completes to remove to him any interest for the continuation of a legal career and, during the ten following years, he works in graphic arts, providing drawings and illustrations to the Parisian newspapers, as by drawing posters color. In 1903, it helps to organize the section drawing of the first Salon of autumn in Paris. In 1904 - 1905, it studies art with the Académie Julian.

Very influenced by Edgar Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec at its beginnings, it takes part later in the movements fauvist, cubist and impressionist abstract.

In 1906, Montmartre having become a very active community, it moves for the quieter district of Puteaux where it devotes the major part of its time to work with the Pointe dries, the die stamping (intaglio), a technique which creates lines dark and velvety which arises in contrast with the whiteness of paper.

Its insulation of the bourdonnante artistic community of Montmartre, like its modest nature, made that its production remained obscure during a certain number of years.

As from 1911, it organizes at his place, with his brothers Raymond and Marcel, a newsgroup which meet regularly with artists and critics like Francis Picabia, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Leger and others to which one will give soon the name of Groupe of Puteaux. Villon played an important role in the exposure of the group under the name of “Gold section” according to the “Gold section” of traditional mathematics. More than 200 works by thirty and one artists appeared in their first exposure to the Galerie Boétie of October 1912.

In 1913, Villon creates its chiefs of work cubists, seven large points dry where the forms break in darkened pyramidal plans. The same year, it exposes to famous Armory Show of New York, which contributes to introduce the Modern art with the the United States. Its works know a great popularity and are sold without sorrow. Its notoriety grows so much that as of the Années 1930, it is better known with the the United States than in Europe.

The Galerie Louis Carré organizes an exposure of its work to Paris in 1944, following what it receives rewards in a certain number of international exhibitions. In 1950, it receives the Prix Carnegie and, in 1954, it is named commander of the Légion of honor. The following year, it receives the order of the stained glasses of the cathedral with Metz, France . In 1956, the Grand Prix of the Biennale de Venise is decreed to him with the exposure.

The greatest achievements of Villon in engraving are its creation of a purely graphic language for the cubism, a realization whose no other engraver, including his comrades cubists Picasso or Braque could praise himself.

In 1967, his/her Marcel brother contributed to assemble to Rouen an exposure entitled “ Duchamp: Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp. ” part of this family exposure then was presented to the National museum Modern art of the Center Georges-Pompidou of Paris.

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