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18 years old Asger Jorn started to paint in 1932. Inspired by the imaginative
univers of Kandinsky, he traveled to Paris in 1936 to become a student
at the atelier of Kandinsky. But Kandinsky did not take student, and in
stead Jorn began studying with Legér.
In 1938 Asger Jorn met Egill Jacobsen and this meeting had great impact
on the artistic work of Jorn. What Jorn was inspired of was the spontanic
way of painting that Egill Jacobsen had practised for a couple of years;
a free and very direct method that fitted into the experimenting temper
of Jorn. Jorn started painting his vivid and storytelling canvases inhabited
by small and large creatures in an even more expressive spontanic way
than Egill Jacobsen.
In 1941 Asger Jorn took initiatives to publish a small art magazine called
Helhesten; in 1947 he joined the group Le Surréalisme Révolutionaire,
and in 1948 he left this group together with among others Dotremont to
found Cobra instead.
Post-Cobra the very international and collective minded Jorn was to found
new forums of experimental art, and besides painting he did public decorations
both in- and outside Denmark.
To his production belogs modifications, dessin-mots (painting of
word), ceramic and graphical works, drawings and a lot of writing about
art contra society.
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