Abstractism

Michael Seuphor

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Michel Seuphor, born in Antwerp on March 10, 1901, as Ferdinand Louis Berckelaers, adopted the pseudonym Michel Seuphor - an anagram of Orpheus - in 1917. Michel Seuphor was a versatile artist: art critic, art historian, painter, poet, and writer. His career is distinguished by a profound contribution to the history of art.
In 1921, at just twenty years old, he founded the avant-garde magazine "Het Overzicht" in his hometown. This is the first step in his journey into the European avant-garde. Between 1922 and 1925, he traveled between Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, and Paris, coming into contact with the pioneers of artistic movements such as cubism, dadaism, futurism, constructivism, and neoplasticism. He collaborated with renowned artists like Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
In 1925, he permanently settled in Paris. The city became the base from which he launched numerous artistic initiatives. In 1930, together with Joaquín Torres García, he founded the movement Cercle et Carré. This group, under the influence of the De Stijl movement and with the participation of artists like Mondrian, Léger, Schwitters, Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, gathered exponents of European abstractionism. Michel Seuphor was also the director of the group's journal, significantly contributing to the spread of abstract art.
Michel Seuphor's work as an artist is characterized by the exclusive use of paper, pen drawings, and East Indian ink. He creates abstract forms through the use of closely spaced parallel lines, playing with contrasts of light and darkness to evoke inner truths.
In 1931, Michel Seuphor temporarily left Paris for health reasons, but returned in 1938. During this period, he organized important exhibitions such as "Les Premiers Maîtres de l'Art Abstrait" in 1949, "50 ans d'Art Abstrait" in 1958, and "Construction and Geometry Painting" in 1959. Notably, he curated a major retrospective on Mondrian at the Musée de l'Orangerie, also in 1959.
In 1954, Michel Seuphor acquired French citizenship. From this moment, his attention focused more on art history, particularly on 20th-century abstract art. He produced fundamental texts such as "L'Art abstrait, ses origines, ses premiers maîtres" (1949), the "Dictionnaire de la Peinture abstraite" (1957), and "Sculpture de ce siècle" (1959). From 1971, he began publishing a five-volume history of abstract art, consolidating his role as an art historian and theorist."
Michel Seuphor passed away in Paris on February 12, 1999, leaving an immense legacy in the art world, especially in abstract art, through his art, his publications, and his collaborations with other great artists of his time.

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