Alix Aymé - Painter of French Indochina - 77 paintings / lacquer [HD]

Alix Aymé was a female French painter who is most famous for her paintings of French Indochina, especially today’s Vietnam and Laos.
Born Alix Angèle Marguerite Hava, she first married in 1920 Professor Paul de Fautereau-Vassel, moving with him to Shanghai, China then Hanoi, Vietnam. In 1925-1926 she taught drawing at the French Lycée in Hanoi.
The couple returned to France, where they lived from 1926 to 1928 and had a son. Then she separated from Fautereau-Vassel and returned with her infant son to Indochina. In 1931 she remarried to Colonel, later General, Georges Aymé, future deputy to Lieutenant-General Eugène Mordant, in command of the French Army in Indochina, and whose younger brother Marcel Aymé was later be known as a novelist. She travelled and painted also in Laos, becoming acquainted with the household of King Sisavang Vong. Her large frescos are still displayed in the Royal Palace in Luang Prabang. She became teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine where she contributed to a reawakening of interest in lacquer painting.
An exhibition of her work was held at the Johns Hopkins University in 2012 who described her as "an influential participant in the promotion of Paris-born modernism in the era between the world wars." The exhibition documented the artist's development over nearly four decades, from early works influenced by the Nabi painter Maurice Denis, to later adoption of Asian elements and modernism in her mature landscapes.
Aymé was inextricably linked to the French colonial experience in Indochina. Not only did she live and work for many years in Hanoi, where she was instrumental in the revival of the ancient art of lacquer that she taught at the School of Fine Arts, but she was married to General Georges Aymé, who eventually became the Commander of the French Forces in Indochina. In the 1930s, Aymé was sent by the French government to both Angkor Wat and Luang Prabang to do research for the Colonial Exposition that was to be held in Paris the following year. While in Luang Prabang, she became friendly with the Laotian Royal family and was commissioned by the king to do a series of murals in the Royal Palace depicting everyday life in Laos. Today the palace is a museum and the murals have been designated a national treasure.
In March of 1945, when the Japanese Army took control of Indochina, General Aymé was interned in concentration camps and Alix and her sons remained in Hanoi under harsh living conditions until the end of the war. Her older son, Michel, was murdered in an anti-French riot shortly after the surrender of Japan. His death at the age of 19 became a tragic touchstone in her life and a frequent inspiration for her later art. The Aymés returned to France late in 1945. General Aymé, the older brother of the celebrated writer Marcel Aymé, never really recovered from the brutality of their treatment at the hands of the Japanese and died in 1950. Alix sought refuge in her art.

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Notevole pittura e sensibilità raffinata, si può affiancare con merito a Gauguin.

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Magnifique, grande artiste,

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