« When I paint, I liberate monsters... They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience... »
Pierre Alechinsky
Pierre Alechinsky
He then continued his art education at Atelier 17 in Paris, where he was a student of the printmaker Stanley William Hayter. In 1949 the art group Cobra was formed. Its purpose was to break away accepted standards of western art and to make art more about the human condition. Pierre Alechinsky became a member after getting to know the other Cobra artists, and he showed his work in several Cobra exhibitions. In Paris Alechinsky worked as a correspondent for Bokubi, a Japanese journal on the use of ink in art. He went to Japan in 1955, where his work Night was exhibited, and while there he also made a film on Japanese calligraphy. By the end of the 1950s, some of Pierre Alechinsky’s works had been shown at the Venice Biennial and exhibited in London and Bern. In the 1960s his reputation grew internationally when his art went on show in New York, Pittsburgh and Amsterdam. In 1983 Alechinsky was appointed Professor of Painting at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels in 1994. Read Less
