Mario Prassinos
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Mario Prassinos was a French
artist
and illustrator
of Greek origin.
He was born in Istanbul
(Constantinople
) on 30 July 1916, son of Victorine and Lysandre Prassinos, and moved to France with his family in 1922. His sister Gisèle Prassinos
(born 1920) is a surrealist writer.
His first exhibition took place in 1938 at the Galerie Pierre Vorms. That same year he married Yolande Borelly. His daughter Catherine Prassinos was born in 1946.
During the period 1942 to 1950 he met Raymond Queneau
and Albert Camus
and produced work for Editions Gallimard.
He died on 23 October 1985.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
of Greek origin.
He was born in Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
(Constantinople
Constantinople
Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...
) on 30 July 1916, son of Victorine and Lysandre Prassinos, and moved to France with his family in 1922. His sister Gisèle Prassinos
Gisèle Prassinos
Gisèle Prassinos is a French writer associated with the surrealist movement.She was born in Istanbul, Turkey and emigrated to France with her family at the age of two, where they lived initially in Nanterre...
(born 1920) is a surrealist writer.
His first exhibition took place in 1938 at the Galerie Pierre Vorms. That same year he married Yolande Borelly. His daughter Catherine Prassinos was born in 1946.
During the period 1942 to 1950 he met Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau was a French poet and novelist and the co-founder of Ouvroir de littérature potentielle .-Biography:Born in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Queneau was the only child of Auguste Queneau and Joséphine Mignot...
and Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
and produced work for Editions Gallimard.
He died on 23 October 1985.
Works on Mario Prassinos
- Prassinos, Arbres et bouquets, préface de Myriam Prévot, Galerie de France, Paris, 1960.
- Jean-Louis Ferrier, Prassinos, Le Musée de Poche, Paris, Éditions Georges Fall, 1962.
- Mario Prassinos, peintures et dessins récents, textes de Mario Prassinos, Raymond QueneauRaymond QueneauRaymond Queneau was a French poet and novelist and the co-founder of Ouvroir de littérature potentielle .-Biography:Born in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Queneau was the only child of Auguste Queneau and Joséphine Mignot...
, François NourissierFrançois NourissierFrançois Nourissier was a French journalist and writer.Nourissier was the secretary-general of Éditions Denoël , editor of the review La Parisienne , and an adviser with the Éditions Grasset Paris publishing house .In 1970, he won the Prix Femina for his book La crève...
, René CharRené CharRené Char was a 20th century French poet.-Biography:Char was born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse department of France, the youngest of four children of Emile Char and Marie-Therese Rouget, where his father was mayor and managing director of the Vaucluse plasterworks...
, Albert CamusAlbert CamusAlbert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
, Marc AlynMarc AlynMarc Alyn , is a French poet.-Life:He was mobilized to Algeria in 1957.He lived far from Paris, a farmhouse in Uzès, Gard....
, Jean-Louis Ferrier, Pierre SeghersPierre SeghersPierre Seghers was a French poet and editor. During the Second World War he took part in the French Resistance movement....
, Jean Boissieu, Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Jean Lescure, Pierre Cabanne, Gisèle PrassinosGisèle PrassinosGisèle Prassinos is a French writer associated with the surrealist movement.She was born in Istanbul, Turkey and emigrated to France with her family at the age of two, where they lived initially in Nanterre...
et Pierre EmmanuelPierre EmmanuelNoël Mathieu better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration...
, Paris, Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, 1980. - Prassinos, textes de Jean-Louis Ferrier, Gisèle PrassinosGisèle PrassinosGisèle Prassinos is a French writer associated with the surrealist movement.She was born in Istanbul, Turkey and emigrated to France with her family at the age of two, where they lived initially in Nanterre...
et Mario Prassinos, entretien avec Mario Prassinos, Aix-en-Provence, Présence contemporaine, 1983, 144 p. (ISBN 2-904013-04-0). - Mario Prassinos, Levallois-Perret, Les amis de Valentin Brû [Raymond Queneau], n° 28-29, 1984 [Raymond Queneau et Mario Prassinos].
- Hélène Parmelin, Les Peintres de Jean Vilar : CalderAlexander CalderAlexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing mobile sculptures. In addition to mobile and stable sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry, jewelry and household objects.-Childhood:Alexander "Sandy" Calder was born in Lawnton,...
, Chastel, Gischia, Jacno, Lagrange, ManessierAlfred ManessierAlfred Manessier was a non-figurative French painter, stained glass artist, and tapestry designer, part of the new Paris School and the Salon de Mai.-Biography:...
, Pignon, Prassinos et SingierGustave SingierGustave Singier was a Belgian non-figurative painter active in France as part of the new Paris School of Lyrical Abstraction and the Salon de Mai. He is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery....
, Fondation Jean VilarJean VilarJean Vilar was a French man of the theatre, who created in 1947 the Avignon theatre festival.After he gave up his literature studies, in 1932 he followed in Paris a course of philosophy of Alain and the theatre courses of Charles Dullin...
, Avignon, 1984. - La donation Mario Prassinos (catalogue raisonné), Catherine Prassinos et Thierry Rye, préface de Pierre Cabanne, Saint-Rémy de Provence, FMP Donation Mario Prassinos, 1990, 158 p. (ISBN 2-9504357-0-X).
- Lydia Harambourg, Mario Prassinos, dans L'École de Paris 1945-1965, Dictionnaire des peintres, Neuchâtel, Ides et Calendes, 1993, (ISBN 2-8258-0048-1).
- Correspondance d'Henri Parisot avec Mario et Gisèle Prassinos, 1933-1938, Prassinos Catherine, Rye Thierry (éd.), Joelle Losfeld, 2003, 212 p. (ISBN 2-84412-162-4).
- Monographie Mario Prassinos, peinture et dessin, préface de François Nourissier, Catherine Prassinos (expert de l'Union Française des Experts, UFE) et Thierry Rye (éd.), Actes Sud, 2005, 342 p. (ISBN 2-7427-4366-9).