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...Last week, as evidence of what Lurçat has done for the village, Aubusson had on view the most lavish display of local tapestries ever assembled: 550 brilliantly rich pieces in the full range of designs from representational to abstract by such artists as Gromaire, Dom Robert, Prassinos, Singier, Tourliere and, of course, Lurçat himself...
...Gustave Singier is a highly sophisticated Parisian whose debt to Wassily Kandinsky is obvious. Like many Kandinskys, Singier's Homage to Ravel is made of neat snippets of color, tossing and crossing in cool space...
...entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and Roger Chapelain-Midy, or the sophistication of Oscar Dominguez' half-abstract Christmas tree, with its candles that cast pointed black shadows from each glowing wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game of pick-up-sticks. What the U.S. entrants lacked in know-how they almost made up for in energy and imagination. Joseph Hirsch's Journey...
Like most of the group, Gustave Singier is a married man, spends his days painting in an ice-cold studio wearing two sweaters, two coats, a muffler and hat. He seldom sees his fellow painters. Asked what the twelve call themselves, he explained that movements don't give themselves names: like Quakers, they get names pinned on them by their detractors. He-if no one else-liked, a name he had found in reading Delacroix's Journal: "Surnaturalists...
...twelve: Jean Le Moal, Alfred Manessier, Gustave Singier, Andre Fougeron, Edouard Pignon, Leon Gischia, Francis Tailleux, Pierre Tal Coat, Gabriel Robin, Jean Bazaine, Maurice Esteve, Charles Lapique...