voyous voyants voyeurs / Trouille, Clovis ; diRosa H ; Nadau JP ; Erro ; Molinier P., 2009
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Scope and Contents
Camille Clovis Trouille, was born on 24 October 1889, in La Fère, France. He worked as a restorer and decorator of department store mannequins, but is remembered as a Sunday painter who trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Amiens from 1905 to 1910. He died on 24 September 1975 in Paris. His service in World War I gave him a lifelong hatred of the military, expressed in his first major painting Remembrance (1931). The painting depicts a pair of wraith-like soldiers clutching white rabbits, an airborne female contortionist throwing a handful of medals, and the whole scene being blessed by a cross-dressing cardinal. This contempt for the Church as a corrupt institution provided Trouille with the inspiration for decades of pictorial blasphemies: Dialogue at the Carmel (1944) shows a skull wearing a crown of thorns being used as an ornament. The Mummy shows a mummified woman coming to life as a result of a shaft of light falling on a large bust of Andre Breton. The Magician (1944) has a self-portrait satisfying a group of swooning women with a wave of his magician's wand. My Tomb (1947) shows Trouille's tomb as a focal point of corruption and depravity in a graveyard. Trouille's other common subjects were sex, as shown in Lust (1959), a portrait of the Marquis de Sade sitting in the foreground of a landscape decorated with a tableau of various perversions, and a "madly egoistic bravado" employed as self-satirism. His portrait of a reclining nude shown from behind entitled Oh! Calcutta, Calcutta! - a pun in French - was chosen as the title for the 1969 musical revue. (The French phrase "oh quel cul t'as" translates roughly as "oh what a lovely ass you have".) After his work was seen by Louis Aragon and Salvador Dali, Trouille was declared a Surrealist by Andre Breton - a label Trouille accepted only as a way of gaining exposure, not having any real sympathy with that movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 2009
Creator
- Trouille, Clovis, 1889-1975 (Person)
- Di Rosa, Hervé (Person)
- Nadau, Jean-Pierre (Person)
- Erro, 1932- (Person)
- Molinier, Pierre, 1900-1976 (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 hard cover book (104 pages)) ; 27.8 x 21.5 x 1.4 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
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Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: L'Isle-Adam, France : Musee d'art et d'Histoire Louis Senlecq. Nationality of creator: French. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: RED.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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