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martial raysse

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Born in 1936 in the South of France, Martial Raysse, began to paint and write poetry at the age of 12. His early works were assemblages which included plastic objects. Fascinated by the beauty of plastic, he plundered low-costs shops with plastic items and developed what became his "vision hygiene" concept; a vision that showcases consumer society.

In the 60's, Martial Raysse, co-founded the group ‘Nouveaux Réalistes’ with Arman, Yves Klein, Raymond Hains, later joined by Cesar and Niki de Saint Phalle. This group of artists defined themselves as bearing in common "new perspective approaches of reality".

Well known for his pictorial compositions, based on images from advertising as well as on high art, he produced paintings in which a deliberate roughness of execution is emphasised by the superposition of a single neon line. His work developed around a number of recurrent themes; in particular he concentrated on the contours of a portrait, a mouth, or an eye, repeating them endlessly using all kinds of visual formulae, while drawing on the most diverse types of materials. Little by little he moved away from the urban world towards a return to nature, a bucolic ideal of a gentle and calm community with reminiscences of Poussin and of mythology.

His work relates to that of the Pop artists, who likewise used objects and images derived from advertising. He also created transparent assemblages of everyday objects in plastic boxes, as a selection of samples of the outside world. He preferred to exhibit the object in its own right and in its original purity, yet with distance, humor and sometimes scorn.

 
     
 
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