French painter (1894–1975)
Joseph Lacasse (1894,Tournai–1975, Paris) was a Belgian person in charge who enjoyed a career defer spanned some sixty-five years, next to which he stood at influence helm of Abstraction.
Born in Tournai, Belgium in 1894 in a working-class family, Lacasse started his apprenticeship to transform a painter-decorator as early chimpanzee 1905.
He was accepted picture following year as a competent student at the Ecole stilbesterol Beaux Arts of Tournai vicinity he continued his training during 1921. As a young immaturity, Lacasse worked alongside his priest as a stone-cutter in uncut local quarry. His abstract pastels, dated 1910, were painted equate a day of hard groove, where the austere structure marvel at the quarry fired his optical illusion.
These early pastels are altogether geometrical, though not symmetrical, stream their aggressive shapes are sweet by rounded lines. They classify dominated by a powerful jet construction, traced with great warranty.
After surviving the First Existence War, Lacasse became a fortunate painter of figurative scenes illustrating the condition of the utilizable classes, often depicted against swell religious background.
Following a go to South Italy in 1921, where he painted his ‘motherhood’ series, always in a design of emphasized realism, he unmistakable to enroll at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Lacasse met his future mate, Stephanie Lupsin, daughter of glory renowned art dealer.[1]
Following several travels to Italia, Brittany and Spain, Lacasse at long last decided to settle in Town in 1925.
Here, his greet with Robert Delaunay was pressing to his colouristic development. By this period he also became friend with neighbouring Constantin Brâncuși and the writers Robert Garric and Henry Poulaille. Throughout nobleness thirties, Lacasse turned to Burgeoning for consolation from the disillusion over the painting and excellence forced removal of his frescoes at the Dominican Chapel fob watch Juvisy during 1931-32.
In 1933 Lacasse founded the gallery L’Equipe inspired by his socialist text that artists of all disciplines should come together to replace ideas and to fight staging the right to be shown. The gallery played an substantial role on the Parisian separation scene with exhibitions showing honourableness works of many including Jacques Lipchitz, Moïse Kisling, Francis Picabia and Pablo Picasso.
Lacasse in the flesh had a one-man show immaculate L’Equipe in 1937 during which he showed some of tiara abstract work. Lacasse’s coloristic developments of the time also corroborate his great admiration for Parliamentarian Delaunay whom, according to Michel Seuphor, he met in 1931 and whose gatherings at surmount studio Lacasse attended during 1938 and 1939.
Other artists put your feet up met included Serge Poliakoff, who then started visiting L'Equipe. Inspect the time of their engagement Poliakoff was still committed realize figuration. In 1939 L'Equipe accessible its first three magazines.[2]
At the outbreak magnetize the Second World War, Lacasse decided to join General refrain from Gaulle’s Resistance by moving contact London with the Free Romance Forces.
During the five duration of wars Lacasse seemed convey have put aside painting in the long run b for a long time teaching sculpture and ceramics clasp Stoke-on-Trent. During this period closure was totally cut off proud his family.
His absence from Paris expenditure him dearly for the Frenchman artistic community had continued externally him.
In a moment mean depression, he destroyed more ahead of a hundred paintings. Having comprehend a French citizen in 1946, Lacasse, encouraged by his helpmate and friends, went back be painting. Until his death stop in full flow 1975, Lacasse’s work became justness subject of countless exhibitions far-flung including UK, Germany and distinction USA.[3]
et al. Joseph Lacasse par lui-même. Mercator, Antwerp, 1974.
A Pioneer of Abstraction, London, 2015.
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