Exposition Art Blog: Léon Arthur Tutundjian

Léon Arthur Tutundjian

Léon Arthur Tutundjian (Born 1905, Amasya, Ottoman Empire - died Paris, France December, 1968) was an Armenian painter who reached fame in France.
In 1924, at the age of nineteen, Tuntundjian arrived in Paris and studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He married a French woman in 1933. He had some close friends who were famed artists such as Yervand Kochar..Within two years of his arrival in Paris, he exhibitied at the opening of the Galerie Surrealiste, and three years later he was the featured artist in a group show at the Galerie des Editions Bonaparte. He created more than a thousand images of several media and styles. In 1930, he co-founded the group Art Concret with well-known abstract artists Theo van Doesburg, Jean Helion, and Otto G. Carlsund. In 1933, he changed styles abruptly with the figural language of surrealism, which occupied him until 1960, through this long period was interrupted by the events of World War II; first by his brief military service and then by the years under Vichy rule and the war's aftermath. In his early works, he fought the chaos of his experience by transforming it with a balanced artistic vision into ordered and pure artworks. In 1960 he returned to abstraction until his death in 1968.Wikipedia









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