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Camille Bryen
"I can paint and can live of nothingness…"
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Camille Bryen s’éteint à Paris le 9 mai 1977, il avait 70 ans. L’artiste sera inhumé trois jours plus tard au cimetière du Montparnasse. Michel Butor, son ami, écrira un poème intitulé « Incantation Bryen » qui s’achève par ces deux vers : « … / Et tous les saints des vieux calendriers délivrés par tes labyrinthes / Enchâssent dans leurs auréoles quelques rognures de ton rire ». En hommage à sa mémoire, nous y déposons avec respect une grappe de fleurs blanches.
"Le poète est là où il ne semble pas être et il est toujours à un autre endroit que celui où l’on croit qu’il est." - Camille Bryen
"Il n’est jamais trop tôt pour arriver trop tôt ; ainsi s’impose les dessins automatiques de Camille Bryen." - Armel Guerne
"Poète, dessinateur, créateur d’objets à fonctionnement, peintre ou simplement individu, l’existence de Camille Bryen tend toute entière à nier la notion d’instants privilégiés au profit d’un état permanent, diversifié dans ses expressions mais d’intérêt toujours égal, qui serait la véritable activité poétique." - Daniel Abadie
"Les becs de gaz se sont mis à pleurer sur leur disparition prochaine." - Camille Bryen
"Le travail de Camille Bryen est insolite en ce sens qu’il s’est élaboré puis développé dans la pleine maturité de la vie d’un homme qui, au départ, n’était pas un plasticien." - Jacqueline Bouter-Kapéra
"Bryen fut l’un des rares artistes de sa génération à avoir autant d’amis dans la génération qui l’avait précédé que dans celle qui le suivait." - Pontus Hulten, directeur du Musée national d’Art moderne
Notes of biography
In 1926, Camille Bryen was a young telegraphist ; he was not yet 20 years old when he came to Paris in order to met Surrealists. Born in Nantes in 1907, he published a first collection of poems, “Opopanax”, in 1927. In 1932, he published again: “Experiences”, gathering poems, drawings and collages. This book preceded the automatic drawings.
Two years later is organized in Paris, his first exhibition with drawings and collages. Coming next numerous exhibitions in various Salons, hold conferences, carried out, in 1936, his first tachist work. This same year, Bryen took part in the 20th celebration of the dadaisme (Sorbonne, Paris). He signed the manifesto “dimensionniste” with Arp, Duchamp and Picabia as co-signatories. At that time he was regarded as a post-dadaïste poet. He worked with Ubac. Very active, he wrote, published and drew.
In 1948, Bryen organized the “lyric abstraction” - first-exhibition which was created the previous year (“non-representation psychique”). He started etching and in 1949 oil painting, with the feeling of a free expression without limits. In 1950, although he published his most famous work “Héréphile”, he stopped writing and devoted himself only to his pictorial activity.
After the second world war, he took part in many Salons, biennial, collective exhibitions, in France and abroad; many personal exhibitions were devoted to him (London, Paris, Milan, Nantes, etc). Bryen illustrated various works of literature, specially with splendid colored etchings. Bryen’s art evolved, going until a delicate and measured abstraction.
Camille Bryen died in 1977 (Paris).
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« L'oeuvre gravé et lithographié », J. Boutet-Loyer, Editions Person, Paris, 1975
*« Camille Bryen : l'oeuvre peint », J. Boutet-Loyer, Ed. Editart, Paris, 1986
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Un art autre », M. Tapié, Ed. Gabriel Giraud et fils, Paris, 1952
- « Bryen, l'Ouvre boîte », J. Audiberti, Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1952
- « Lyrisme et abstraction », Pierre Restany, Ed. Apollinaire, Milan, 1960
- « Au-delà du tachisme », Georges Mathieu, Ed. Julliard, 1963
- « Propos d’un humaniste, interview », J. Clair, Chroniques de l'Art Vivant, 1971
- « Bryen abhomme », D. Abadie, La Connaissance, 1973
- « Bryen », MNAM, Paris, 1973
- « Bryen, en temps conjugués », M. Butor, Galerie de Seine, Paris, 1975
- « Bryen », Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, 1986
- « Architecte de l'informel, Approches de l'art moderne », M. Alyn, Ed. Bartillat, 2007
To read from the artist :
- « Anthologie de la poésie naturelle », K. Editeur, 1949
- « Désécritures », Ed. Les Presses du réel, Dijon, 2007
Website :
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Stamp by Camille Bryen
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Handwritten sentence of the artist
Private collection / This document is not for sale
+ Listen
Listen
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Camille Bryen
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Camille Bryen s’éteint à Paris le 9 mai 1977, il avait 70 ans. L’artiste sera inhumé trois jours plus tard au cimetière du Montparnasse. Michel Butor, son ami, écrira un poème intitulé « Incantation Bryen » qui s’achève par ces deux vers : « … / Et tous les saints des vieux calendriers délivrés par tes labyrinthes / Enchâssent dans leurs auréoles quelques rognures de ton rire ». En hommage à sa mémoire, nous y déposons avec respect une grappe de fleurs blanches.
"Le poète est là où il ne semble pas être et il est toujours à un autre endroit que celui où l’on croit qu’il est." - Camille Bryen
"Il n’est jamais trop tôt pour arriver trop tôt ; ainsi s’impose les dessins automatiques de Camille Bryen." - Armel Guerne
"Poète, dessinateur, créateur d’objets à fonctionnement, peintre ou simplement individu, l’existence de Camille Bryen tend toute entière à nier la notion d’instants privilégiés au profit d’un état permanent, diversifié dans ses expressions mais d’intérêt toujours égal, qui serait la véritable activité poétique." - Daniel Abadie
"Les becs de gaz se sont mis à pleurer sur leur disparition prochaine." - Camille Bryen
"Le travail de Camille Bryen est insolite en ce sens qu’il s’est élaboré puis développé dans la pleine maturité de la vie d’un homme qui, au départ, n’était pas un plasticien." - Jacqueline Bouter-Kapéra
"Bryen fut l’un des rares artistes de sa génération à avoir autant d’amis dans la génération qui l’avait précédé que dans celle qui le suivait." - Pontus Hulten, directeur du Musée national d’Art moderne
Art movements
+ SCHOOL OF PARIS / 1945-1960 / Jean Degottex, Georges Mathieu, Nicolas de Staël, etc.
+ NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
+ LYRIC ART, ABSTRACT, TACHISM / 1950-1960 / Jackson Pollock, Emil Schumacher, etc.
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