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17 years old Alechinsky started study graphic techniques at École
Nationale Supèrieure d'Architecture et des Arts Décoratifs
in the hometown Brussels. Besides studying he started painting and drawing,
and for a period he is occupied by the surrealistic way of making automatic
drawings.
In 1947 he joins the group Jeune Peinture Belge, and inspired by among
others Bazaine from France, he develops his new abstract way of expression.
In the beginning of 1949 a contact was made between the very french inspired
group Jeune Peinture Belge and Cobra, and several painters from Jeune
Peinture Belge, among these Pierre Alechinsky joined the relatively new
Cobra movement. The french, non-spontanious, partly surrealistic way of
expression these painters brings into Cobra caused troubles from the very
beginning, but Pierre Alechinsky in particular quickly adapted the spontanic,
non-surrealistic expression of Cobra.
In organizing Cobra, Alechinsky became the right hand man of Dotremont,
the secretary-general of Cobra, and artistic Cobra became a learning period
to Alechinsky. Not until post-Cobra Alechinsky starts painting seriously,
and mainly inspired by Asger Jorn he finds his own style of expression:
A living and colorful chaos of forms and lines, in which almost invisible
figures live.
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