Camille Bryen, also known as Camille Briand, (September 17, 1907– August 5, 1977) was a French poet, painter and engraver. Associated with the

School of Paris The School of Paris (, ) refers to the French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. The School of Paris was not a single art movement or institution, but refers to the importance of Paris as a centre o ...

, his work plays a part in the history of

lyrical abstraction Lyrical abstraction arose from either of two related but distinct art movement, trends in Post-war Modernist painting: * European ''Abstraction Lyrique'': a movement that emerged in Paris, with the French art critic Jean José Marchand being cr ...

and

tachisme __NOTOC__ Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism, derived from the French word ''tache'', stain; ) is a French style of Abstract art, abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s. The term is said to have been first used with regards to the ...

Legacy

In 1987 the French postal served issued a 5 Franc stamp that reproduced his work ''Précambrien''. Bryen was included in the exhibition ''L'envolée lyrique, Paris 1945–1956'', presented by the

Musée du Luxembourg The () is a museum at 19 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Established in 1750, it was initially an art museum located in the east wing of the Luxembourg Palace (the matching west wing housed the Marie de' Medici cycle by Peter Paul Rubens) an ...

, Paris in 2006.

Collections

Kunstmuseum Basel The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the oldest public art collection in the world and is generally considered to be the most important museum of art in Switzerland. It is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Its lineage extends ba ...

Musée Cantini The Musée Cantini is a museum in Marseille that has been open to the public since 1936. The museum specializes in modern art, especially paintings from the first half of the twentieth century. The building The musée Cantini building was buil ...

* Musée d'art et d'industrie de Saint-Étienne * Musée du Frac Bretagne,

Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

, New York

Bibliography

* Daniel Abadie, ''Bryen Abhomme'', La Connaissance,

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

, 1973 *

Jacques Audiberti Jacques Séraphin Marie Audiberti (March 25, 1899 – July 10, 1965) was a French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd. Audiberti was born in Antibes, France, the son of Louis Audiberti, a master mason, and ...

, ''Bryen. L’ouvre-boîte'', Gallimard, Paris, 1952 * Jacqueline Boutet-Loyer, ''Bryen, l’œuvre peint'', Quatre Chemins, Paris, 1986 * Jacqueline Boutet-Loyer, ''La Dérive graphique de Camille Bryen'', Galerie Callu Mérite, Paris, 1988 * Jacqueline Boutet-Loyer, ''Bryen et le défi de la peinture éternelle'', Galerie Callu Merite, Paris, 1990 *

Michel Butor Michel Butor (; 14 September 1926 – 24 August 2016) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator. Life and work Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille, the third of seven chil ...

, ''Bryen, en temps conjugués'', Galerie de Seine, Paris, 1975 *

Jean Clair Jean Clair () is the pen name of Gérard Régnier (; born 20 October 1940). Clair is an essayist, a polemicist, an art historian, an art conservator, and a member of the Académie Française since May 2008.Éric Biétry-Riviérre« Jean Clair, ...

, ''Propos d’un abhumaniste, interview'', Chroniques de l’Art Vivant, Paris, 1971 *

Georges Mathieu Georges Mathieu (27 January 1921 – 10 June 2012) was a French abstract painter, art theorist, and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is considered one of the fathers of European lyrical abstraction, a trend of informalism. B ...

, ''Au-delà du tachisme'', Paris, 1963 *

Pierre Restany Pierre Restany (22 June 1930 – 29 May 2003), was an internationally known French art critic and cultural philosopher. Restany was born in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda, Pyrénées-Orientales, and spent his childhood in Casablanca. On returning ...

, ''Lyrisme et abstraction'', Milan, 1960 *

Michel Tapié Michel Tapié de Céleyran (; 26 February 1909 – 30 July 1987) was a French art critic, curator, and collector. He was an early and influential theorist and practitioner of "tachisme", a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s a ...

, ''Un art autre'', Paris, 1952 * Roger van Gindertael, ''Bryen'', Galerie Raymonde Cazenave, Paris, 1960 *

Marc Alyn Marc Alyn (Alain-Marc Fécherolle), (born 18 March 1937 in Reims) is a French poet. Life He was mobilized to Algeria in 1957. He lived far from Paris, a farmhouse in Uzès, Gard. He traveled in the Middle East to the ruins of the Phoenician ci ...

, ''Camille Bryen, architecte de l'informel'', Approches de l'art moderne, Bartillat, 2007 * Jacqueline Loyer, « Bryen », ''

Nouvelles de l'estampe ''Nouvelles de l'estampe'' (in French : "News about prints") is a scholarly journal on prints (etchings, engravings, lithography, etc.). It is published by the Comité national de la gravure française and its office is at the prints department of ...

'', 1975, catalog for engraved works

References

External links

* . {{DEFAULTSORT:Bryen, Camille 20th-century French poets 20th-century French painters 20th-century French engravers 20th-century French male artists Artists from Nantes Poets from Brittany 1907 births 1977 deaths Writers from Nantes