Aristide Maillol

>Aristide Maillol 2005-05-26T16:35:39Z Shanes wfy, style and grammar [[Image:The_mountain.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Aristide Maillol. The mountain, 1937, lead]] '''Aristide Maillol''' ([[April 8]], [[1861]] - [[September 27]], [[1944]]) was a French Catalan [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]. Maillol was born on at [[Banyuls-sur-Mer]], [[Roussillon]], [[France]] near the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. He studied in [[Paris]], under renowned teacher [[Antoine Bourdelle]] and at the [[École des Beaux Arts]]. Aristide Maillol played an important role in the development of sculpture, from [[Romanticism]] to the modern sculptors of the twentieth-century. He is best known for his substantial, full-breasted female nudes. This tradition would be taken to extremes by [[Gaston Lachaise]], who thereby moved sculpture closer to [[abstract art]]. The paintings of his contemporaries [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]] and [[Paul Gauguin]] gave direction to his own painting and pointed out to him the need for the decorative elements to predominate in a work of art. He decided to manufacture tapestries and to that end started a small studio in his home town of Banyuls, employing village girls on the weaving and using home-made dyes. He died in a car accident. While driving back home during a rain shower, the car in which he was a passenger skidded off the road and overturned. Dina Vierny, Maillol's companion during the last 10 years of his life, established the Maillol Museum in Paris. [[Category:1861 births|Maillol, Aristide]] [[Category:1944 deaths|Maillol, Aristide]] [[Category:French painters|Maillol, Aristide]] [[Category:French sculptors|Maillol, Aristide]] [[de:Aristide Maillol]] [[nl:Aristide Maillol]] [[pt:Aristide Maillol]]