Ruo Georges Biography

Ruo was born on May 27 in a poor family, in the working quarter of Paris near the Pere Lashez cemetery. The first days of life passed under the roar of guns that smashed the barricades of the Paris Commune. His grandfather, the postal employee, was an amateur collector, collected the engravings of Callo, lithography of Daumier. Father, a artisan by profession and a Christian socialist by convictions, gave his son to educate a Protestant school.

For two years, Georges studied with an artist-citizen, then, C-at the Academy of Fine Arts of Symbolist Gustava Moro, was his beloved student. After the death of the master, Ruo became the keeper of his museum. The artist’s own style, formed by the year, is remarkable for his power and energy. The forms in its canvases are simplified or distorted, outlined by thick black contours and painted in deep bright colors.

This technique arose as a recollection of work in the workshop of the first teacher of Ruo - a stained glass player.

The artist masterfully uses this style to injure tragedy in creating paintings on religious plots or to identify some mysterious power of evil in the image of modern characters. He was exhibited with the Fovists, but kept aside from their decorativeness, rather continuing the line of Van Gogh. In addition to paintings on religious plots, it should be noted that he has performed from a year according to a series of images of prostitutes and a series of "judges".

These characters are interpreted by Ruo as the personification of evil and moral decomposition in modern society. In the formation of the author’s attitude to this social category, an important role was played by the artist’s friendship with the Catholic writer Leon Blois and with the religious philosopher Jacques Marrithen, as well as the appeal to Christianity. Ruo also used the image of a clown in his work, which, obviously, symbolized for him the fate of an artist or prophet, separated from his counterparts.

From the year, in addition to the paintings of the religious genre, judges, clowns, prostitutes, as the personification of evil, are included in the circle of constant topics and graphics of Ruo. They acquire the character of allegories, lining up around the main allegorical image of Ruo's mature painting - the figures of Christ often - Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. In the year, the first personal exhibition of Ruo was held in the metropolitan gallery of DRUE.

His painting inspires German painters, who later compiled the core of expressionism. At the same time, the artist lived in extreme poverty. Only in the year, Ruo, finally, signed a long-awaited contract with the famous collector and merchant of paintings by Ambroise Vollarus, who provided him with some decades some prosperity and freedom in his work. Ruo worked on his works for a very long time, often for more than twenty years.

In the year, the first monograph on the work of Ruo is published, in its large retrospective exhibition is held in the Gallery of DRUE, the artist receives the Order of the Legion of Honor from the French government. Picture of Georges Ruo "Crucifix". Christ, the cross and figures of the upcoming are depicted with the help of simple clearly defined colors of color. The cross dominates the composition, filling the whole space of the picture.

The wealth of color and forms, outlined with rude sharpness, give the image of the Savior additional power. Thanks to the black lines that limit the plane of the color, the overall impression of the picture resembles the stained glass effect. Indeed, Ruo began his creative path with teaching the art of stained glass, only then he moved to the workshop of the painter Gustava Moro.

Using expressively curved stripes of the shining color, Ruo expresses in this engraving the entire depth of his religious feelings. He uses the water water technique that allows you to achieve the impression of color flow - the effect of a close to painting. The emotionally intense content of the work resembles the paintings of modern German expressionists.

At the same time, the Roo style was deeply individual, with a characteristic only bright and emotionally saturated color and rough black lines of the picture. Starting from - and Ruo's painting and graphics are of international interest. From the year, after the death of Vollarus, the long -term lawsuit of Ruo with the heirs of Vollarus begins. In the course of long trials, delaying the process and due to judicial red tape, the artist defiantly burned his works in the year.

The painter successfully participates in the Venetian Biennale of the year. The eightieth anniversary of the artist in the year was marked by the Catholic center of French intellectuals in the capital's Palace of Shayo, Ruo becomes the commander of the Order of the Legion of Honor. After the death of the artist in Paris on February 13, the French government arranged Ruo official state funerals.