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Chaïm Soutine 1893-1943

Chaïm Soutine was born to a poor Jewish family, the tenth of eleven children, in the shtetl of Smilovitz, Russia (now Lithuania) on 13 January 1893, and drew from an early age. He studied at the School of Fine Arts, Vilna (1910-13), and in the Atelier Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1913–15), becoming closely associated with the group of foreign-born, predominantly Jewish artists, known as the 'École de Paris'. The majority including Marc Chagall, Isaac Dobrinsky, Jacques Lipchitz lived and worked together in great poverty in the studios known as La Ruche ('the Beehive') near the old Vaugirard slaughterhouses of Montparnasse. In 1915 Lipchitz introduced Soutine to Amedeo Modigliani with whom he developed a strong friendship. During the First World War Soutine enlisted in the work brigades but was soon dismissed on health grounds, having developed the stomach problems which would later kill him. His oeuvre includes a series of powerful, visceral landscapes and an important series of Rembrandt-inspired beef carcasses

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Summary of Chaïm Soutine

Increasingly becoming a household name, Chaïm Soutine's work transcends the movements that dominated the avant-garde during his lifetime. He chose to eschew the dominant early-20th-century avant-garde trends of Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, and Futurism in favor of a more traditional approach, honing his skills as a portraitist, landscapist and painter of still lifes. His paintings went on to influence some of the most radical and avant-garde artists of subsequent generations. His impasto technique, which he developed to the point of mastery, combined with a highly accomplished use of color and free, gestural brushwork equally sparked the interest of the postwar Action Painters including Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock and their realist counterparts in the UK, such as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.

Accomplishments

  • Soutine looked to established masters like Rembrandt van Rijn and Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin for inspiration, often referencing subject matter from their paintings in his own work. However, although many of his paintings contain c
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    The life and art of Chaim Soutine

    The original vision of the boy from the Lithuanian shtetl, who painted for thirty years in Paris, until he died in Nazi-occupied France, would redefine the way modern art would see the world.

    Above all, Chaim Soutine was a painter. Independent and solitary, he developed a very particular vision and painting technique. Masterfully mastering oil, with the help of strong colors and distorted shapes, he created a violent and tormented expressionism. With a tendency to melancholy and bouts of bad humor, Soutine had a difficult personality, but the strength of his genius made people approach him.

    Any biography of Soutine is bound to be fragmentary and incomplete, as he never kept a diary, nor did he even leave anything written about his art or the techniques he employed. Few letters and portraits were found and what is known about his person was obtained through documents and those with whom he interacted throughout his life.

    His only true biography is his canvases, as it is on them that he reveals himself completely, without masks. And what defin

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