Renaissance Art

Renaissance man: a person with many talents or disciplines. Alain Satié embodied this category. Not as much as Leonardo da Vinci but he still covered a wide range of skills. Satié was a painter, writer, architect, photographer, poet, critic and a professor of art history. This man of many trades was born on January 20, 1944, in Toulouse, France. After he completed technical studies, he enrolled into the Fine Arts school of Toulouse. At 20 years old while in Paris, he joined the Lettrist movement.
In 1945, Isidore Isou, a Romanian immigrant, started the Lettrist movement. Other avant-garde movements, such as Dada and Surrealism inspired Lettrism. These movements show how art could reject and go beyond previous ideas of creativity. Early Lettrist’s

This concentration in light persisted throughout most of his other collections as well. In addition, his first works showed an interesting color placement. The color contrast draws the eyes to white-painted sections. The piece called, Aeko demonstrates this stimulating contrast by the strategically applied colors. This worked well with the white words against on the black-painted gouache paper. Also, other first works incorporated contrast in a different manner. Entassement (Overcrowding) is simply ink on a canvas but Satié used the black on white to create a separation. The white background borders around the black symbols/letters to stop the black ink from concealing the symbols. Then the empty space above the symbols makes the piece more attractive by proving relief. With Aeko and Entassement as examples, they show an important and engaging style that reflects what is in Visual Arts and Poetry. These works focus on taking principles of art and adjusting them to create new ideas or methods. With his first works, they usually represent Satié testing out how he could manipulate aspect of light with art techniques and