Artists

Armand Point

French, 1860-1932

Seduced by North Africa, Armand Point started painting oils and Orientalist genre subjects of an invoice rather realistic. Yet her inspiration evolves slowly toward an idealistic note and Joséphin Peladan prompt the Salon de la Rose-Croix aesthetic which he will appear with Leonardo Sarluis in March 1896. In May 1893, he traveled to Italy with his wife, Helen Linder deeply mark the artist. This resource among primitive and now advocates an art under the auspices of tradition. Having restored a method of egg painting, it combines that learned his technique Symbolist inspiration. Always inspired by the ancients, it is an artists' colony in the forest of Fontainebleau mingling painters, sculptors, gilders, enamel and goldsmiths who create with techniques found, tapestries, jewelry and precious object. This intellectual coterie called Upper Claire becomes a mecca symbolism visit Odilon Redon, Oscar Wilde, Elemír Bourges, Stéphane Mallarmé and Stuart Merrill in a learning atmosphere that Paul Fort qualify in his memoirs of "court of love." Little 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 to fight for the Ideal is through the revival of ancestral values .

He is the creator of a community of artists, the brotherhood Upper Claire at Marlotte, in the forest of Fontainebleau, which is in line with the movement symbolist.