Anselme boix-vives biography
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Anselme Boix-Vives
Anselme Boix-Vives, né le au hameau de Herbeset (commune de Morella, province de Castellón en Espagne)[1] et mort en 1969 à Moûtiers (Savoie), est un peintre français[1] autodidacte d'origine espagnole.
Biographie
[modifier | modifier le code]De sa jeunesse de berger catalan, Anselme Boix-Vives a gardé le souvenir flamboyant de la nature. Venu s'installer en France à l'âge de 18 ans, il y exerce divers métiers avant d'ouvrir un commerce de fruits et légumes à Moûtiers en 1926. Il est naturalisé français en mars 1940[1].
Au milieu des années 1950, il entame un projet utopique qu'il portera toute sa vie, un « plan de paix mondiale », manifeste à l'appui.
En 1962, à la mort de sa femme, il arrête son commerce et se consacre à la peinture. Durant sept années, il produira plus de 2 000 œuvres colorées, fortement expressives et originales, où la figure humaine, aux traits souvent simiesques, se mêle à des végétations luxuriantes. À son décès, en 1969[2], une grande exposition lui rend hommage à la galerie Denise Berteau à Paris[3].
Une exposition lui a rendu hommage au musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry du au [4].
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Anselme BOIX-VIVES (1899-1969)
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Anselme Boix-Vives
May 25 – September 5, 2019
For most of his life Anselme Boix-Vives (1899–1969) ran a vegetable shop in the village of Moûtiers in the French Savoy. Alongside his work, Boix-Vives developed a pacifist worldview, wrote several manifestos and courted the world's leaders with message of his worldview.
In 1962 Anselme Boix-Vives began to paint, encouraged by his son Michel. For seven years until his death in 1969, he created about 2,400 paintings and drawings. He was a self-made painter and he through his painting and drawings he expressed his own visual world and the pursuit of peace on earth. The color scale is clear, and figures and motives often have the shape of people, animals and nature.
Boix-Vives is today recognized as one of the established artists in French Art Brut. In the exhibition one hundred paintings and drawings are shown for the first time in Sweden. Two of the artist's grandchildren, Philippe Boix-Vives and Julie Boix-Vives are also taken part in the exhibition with each artistic work, where they visit their grandfather and his visual world.