Charles Angrand
Painter
For Angrand, the search for a new social ideal motivates that of a new formal ideal. Anarchist, anti-militarist and anti-colonialist, Charles Angrand is committed through his drawings, but also through his aesthetic vocabulary. In search of a break with the stylistic tradition of naturalism, he joined the post-impressionism and divisionism of Seurat. When Au verger is painted, at the beginning of the century, Angrand freed himself from the technical constraints of divisionism to cradle his works in diaphanous colors that subtly restore the intensity of each impression, facing the fragile glow of light. The simplicity of the treatment of the subject, bordering on abstraction, retains only the essential: the relentless attention to the vibration of life. Thus, Angrand confers to his painting a moral value, by resisting the attraction of the analogical image, which would be only the restitution of reality.
