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The Artist as clown. Meet Armand.

The Artist as clown. Meet Armand.

We artists and art lovers are a motley lot.

Meet Armand François Henrion (1875-1954) a Belgian artist renowned for his introspective and evocative paintings.

Unique among his contemporaries, Henrion exclusively depicted himself in the guise of Pierrot, the melancholic clown from commedia dell'arte. His fascination with this character allowed him to explore themes of alienation, introspection, and the duality of human emotion.

Henrion's art is characterized by a delicate interplay of color and form, capturing the nuanced emotions of his subject. Through his portrayal of Pierrot, Henrion delved deeply into personal reflection, using the clown’s mask as a metaphor for his own internal struggles and experiences.

For Henrion, being an artist meant translating the complexities of human emotion into visual form, revealing the profound and often melancholic aspects of the self through his solitary subject. I admire and respect his strength of honesty  

Artists understand this.

 

See his wonderful art here:

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