Paintings
Isis
Byblis changed into a spring
Ophelia
The Bathers
Dance of the Seven Veils
Armand Point, born in Algiers in 1860 and died in Naples in 1932, is a French Symbolist painter. He is the creator of an artistic community, the brotherhood Hauteclaire Marlotte, in the forest of Fontainebleau, which is in line with the Arts & Crafts movement.
Biography
Seduced by North Africa, Point started painting oils and Orientalist subjects of such an invoice rather realistic. Yet her inspiration evolves slowly towards an idealistic note Josephin Peladan prompt at the Salon of the Rosicrucian aesthetic. In May 1893, he traveled to Italy with his wife, Helen Linder, who had a profound artist, he is among the primitive resource and now advocates an art under the auspices of the tradition. Having restored a painting process in the egg, it combines the technique learned in his symbolist inspiration. Inspired always old, he is an artist colony in the forest of Fontainebleau mingling painters, sculptors, gilders, goldsmiths and enamel workers with techniques that create recovered, tapestries, jewelry and precious object. This coterie called High-Claire becomes an intellectual mecca symbolism visit Odilon Redon, Oscar Wilde, Stuart Merrill Stephane Mallarme or in a learning atmosphere that Paul Fort qualify in his memoirs of "court of love". Few recognized by critics, judged and accused of nostalgic pastiche, Point feels for the Middle Ages and the Renaissance the same admiration that Edward Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelites, for him, the way of fighting for the Ideal requires renewal values ancestrales1.
Some works in museums
Biblis changed source
Orsay Museum in Paris
Box of snakes, 1897-1899, Workshop High-Claire
Box of Ophelia, 1902-1903, Workshop High-Claire
Notes and references
↑ The Painters of the soul, the idealistic Symbolism in France, Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond
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