Guillaume Corneille - Summer Never Ends

The work displays a marked expressionist vocation, which emphasizes the expression of emotions. Expressionist art seeks to proclaim its moods to the world and flaunt them with passion. Formally, this translates into a summary rendering of the figures, through a highly nervous and animated line, as well as the use of a violent color palette. These characteristics are found in the historical avant-garde movements of expressionism: Fauvism and the Die Brücke movement in Germany. The artist Corneille, one of the leading exponents of the CO.BR.A. group, reworks his subjects according to a remarkable expressionist synthesis consistent with the aesthetic principles of that artistic movement.

This engraving exemplifies the style of Belgian artist Corneille and his conception of the human figure. The subjects are subjected to a remarkable process of abstraction that reduces and distorts their forms using a decidedly gestural style. Even the distribution of color, made up of violent brushstrokes, serves to translate, through the painter's gesture, his interiority. The figures, typical of the aesthetic adopted by the CO.BR.A. Group, take on a tribal and primitive appearance and an archaic expressive force. Even the choice of colors, with their strong and aggressive hues, is consistent with the strongly expressionist and abstract language of Corneille's painting.

Guillaume Cornelis Van Beverloo, known as Corneille, was a Belgian artist born in Liège in 1922 and died in Auvers-sur-Oise in 2010. He co-founded the experimental Reflex movement with Karel Appel, Eugene Brands, and Anton Rosskens. Cornelis studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam between 1940 and 1943, but was largely self-taught. His first solo exhibition was held in Groningen in 1946. With a group of like-minded artists, Cornelis founded the Dutch Experimental Group in 1948, which led to the formation of the CO.BR.A. movement. Corneille participated in group exhibitions of the Co.BR.A. movement. in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1949 and in Liège in 1951. In 1949 he undertook his first trip to North Africa where he discovered the Arab and Berber world and from 1950 onwards he settled in Paris.

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