Clovis Trouille

Camille Clovis Trouille, was born on 24 October 1889, in La Fère, France. He worked as a restorer and decorator of department store mannequins, but is remembered as a Sunday painter who trained at the École des Beaux-Arts of Amiens from 1905 to 1910. He died on 24 September 1975 in Paris.
His service in World War I gave him a lifelong hatred of the military, expressed in his first major painting Remembrance (1931). The painting depicts a pair of wraith-like soldiers clutching white rabbits, an airborne female contortionist throwing a handful of medals, and the whole scene being blessed by a cross-dressing cardinal.

This contempt for the Church as a corrupt institution provided Trouille with the inspiration for decades of pictorial blasphemies: * Dialogue at the Carmel (1944) shows a skull wearing a crown of thorns being used as an ornament. * The Mummy shows a mummified woman coming to life as a result of a shaft of light falling on a large bust of André Breton. * The Magician (1944) has a self-portrait satisfying a group of swooning women with a wave of his magician's wand. * My Tomb (1947) shows Trouille's tomb as a focal point of corruption and depravity in a graveyard. * Trouille's other common subjects were sex, as shown in Lust (1959), a portrait of the Marquis de Sade sitting in the foreground of a landscape decorated with a tableau of various perversions, and a "madly egoistic bravado" employed as self-satirism. * His portrait of a reclining nude shown from behind entitled Oh! Calcutta, Calcutta! - a pun in French - was chosen as the title for the 1969 musical revue. (The French phrase "oh quel cul t'as" translates roughly as "oh what a lovely backside you have".)

After his work was seen by Louis Aragon and Salvador Dalí, Trouille was declared a Surrealist by André Breton - a label Trouille accepted only as a way of gaining exposure, not having any real sympathy with that movement.

The simple style and lurid colouring of Trouille's paintings echo the lithographic posters used in advertising in the first half of the 20th Century.
[from Wikipedia]

Music by:Thomas Newman
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[transpaint]

Dear DistantMirrors.

Thanks for your published info about Clovis Trouille. I like it very much. Still I'm searching for a book about this great artist. If you knew any?

Pstt... Which music is played in your clip?

Greetings from Holland,

Rieks

[DistantMirrors]

Hello!Thank you for watching the video.

I'm not sure if there is any book about Clovis Trouille.I haven't found any yet...

The music is composed by Thomas Newman.

"Structure and Discipline" - from "American Beauty"

"New Fish" - from "The Shawshank Redemption"

Regards,

Anna

[CuteCatFaith]

@DistantMirrors FREAK WAVE (2) has some Trouille in it. This is a VERY GOOD clip and thank you! I am in the Trouille "association" and there was a wonderful show in L'Isle Adam, France last year -- there are some lovely things for sale, too, at the museum there. This is great what you have done because it is so hard to see so many of his images organized at all. I uprated, favorited and shared this. Yours in Saint-Denis . . .

[CuteCatFaith]

@transpaint There is a book called FREAK WAVE (2) which was published in France in January, 2011. It has some Trouille in it and I can also direct you to his grandson not far from me in France -- I am in the "association.' It does cost something but is worth it. eretic d com has the book. (I am in it, too, great honor!) I have not yet seen a whole book on Trouille but the grandson is likely to be able to direct you to valid materials.

[rinavanity]

Another new artist to me , thanks to DistantMirrors. Pretty damn good.

[xxWhiteBrickWallxx]

love this

[aleixenbmsn]

buenisimo...

[Molldelos]

Superbe!

Clovis trouille aborde sous différentes formes ses thèmes favoris que sont l´erotisme, la mort et la religion. Sa peinture exalte la coleur et la liberté des moeurs.

merci beaucup!

[MushyAlchemist]

Quite eerie... but beautiful at the same time. I also like the music you chose for the background, it suits the artwork wonderfully!

[abimnazar]

quelle est donc cette musique magnifique, que je connais et que j'ai déjà entendu mais, où, quand, comment ??? je ne sais plus. merci de me rafraîchir la mémoire :-)

ferais-tu une vidéo sur félix labisse dans pas longtemps ? il le mérite autant que clovis trouille. très belle vidéo. merci. tout ce que tu fais est d'ailleurs apréciable. merci donc, pour tout !!!

[VandaVisions]

Spectacular works. Thank you for posting this video. Incredible artist! *****

[aliwings333]

Bellissimo...Thanks DM