Villon, Jacques

Villon, Jacques

▪ French painter
pseudonym of  Gaston Émile Duchamp  
born July 31, 1875, Damville, Normandy, France
died June 9, 1963, Puteaux, near Paris

      French painter and printmaker who was involved in the Cubist (Cubism) movement; later he worked in realistic and abstract styles.

      Villon was the brother of the artists Suzanne Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon (Duchamp-Villon, Raymond), and Marcel Duchamp. In 1894 he went to Paris to study law, but, once there, he became more interested in art, and he spent the next 12 years contributing illustrations and cartoons to newspapers. In 1903 Villon was one of the founders of the Salon d'Automne, an exhibiting association that was created as an alternative to the traditional Salon. He began to study painting in 1904. In 1906 he moved to the Parisian suburb of Puteaux, where he was able to devote himself primarily to painting.

      Villon adopted a Neo-Impressionist (Neo-Impressionism) style in his first paintings. About 1910, however, he began to develop his mature style, in which he combined a Cubist (Cubism) use of flat, geometric shapes with a palette of luminous colours. He and other Cubist-influenced artists (including his two brothers) formed a group called the Section d'Or (“Golden Section”) in 1912; Villon suggested the name to emphasize the group's interest in geometric proportions.

      Villon exhibited a number of paintings in 1913 at the New York City Armory Show, which helped to promote his international reputation. The following year marked the onset of World War I, and Villon served in the French army. Between the World Wars, he worked in relative obscurity and painted abstract compositions based on colour theory, such as Colour Perspective (1922). Throughout the 1920s he supported himself working for a gallery as a commercial printmaker, reproducing the works of other artists as etchings.

      After World War II, Villon became widely recognized as an important artist. He returned to a partially realistic treatment in portraits and landscapes in which he synthesized Impressionist (Impressionism) colours and Cubist analysis of form. Villon also continued to be a prolific printmaker; he completed more than 600 colour lithographs, drypoints, engravings, and etchings, among which were many illustrations of literary works by Jean Racine (Racine, Jean), Hesiod, and Virgil. Two retrospective shows of his paintings and prints were held in New York City in 1953, and he won the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale in 1956.

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