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René Laubies (1917–2006) was a Colonial French painter, translator, traveler and writer associated with the L' exposition Le nuagisme même
Lyon (France). Musée des beaux-arts, 1973. Laubies was born in Cholon in the Imperial French Colony of
http://guycloutier.org/Laubies.htm
Clouds, 23.7.07.
Clouds, 14.3.09. 20th-century births 2006 deaths 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters 21st-century French painters 21st-century French male artists Art Informel and Tachisme painters Prix Fénéon winners Vietnamese emigrants to France {{France-painter-20thC-stub
René Laubies (1917–2006) was a Colonial French painter, translator, traveler and writer associated with the Lyrical Abstraction
Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting:
''European Abstraction Lyrique'' born in Paris, the French art critic Jean José Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered ...
, Arte Informale and Tachism
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Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism, derived from the French word ''tache'', stain) is a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s. The term is said to have been first used with regards to the movement in 19 ...
movements though particularly linked to the Nuagisme Nuagisme (literally Cloudism) is a French art-critical term for an art movement that was advanced in the 1950s by French art critic Julien Alvard (1916–1974) in which young French and foreign painters participated in France. Nuagisme lasted betw ...
(Cloudism) painters.Lyon (France). Musée des beaux-arts, 1973. Laubies was born in Cholon in the Imperial French Colony of
Cochin-china
Cochinchina or Cochin-China (, ; vi, Đàng Trong (17th century - 18th century, Việt Nam (1802-1831), Đại Nam (1831-1862), Nam Kỳ (1862-1945); km, កូសាំងស៊ីន, Kosăngsin; french: Cochinchine; ) is a historical exony ...
to a well-off family. His father was Réunionnaise French-Colonial. His mother was of solid Sinitic
The Sinitic languages (漢語族/汉语族), often synonymous with "Chinese languages", are a group of East Asian analytic languages that constitute the major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is frequently proposed that there is ...
roots from a line of upland Phu-Ly Dynasty of Annamese Mandarins.
Laubies was the recipient of the coveted Fénéon Prize for visual art in 1954. He collaborated with American poet Robert Creeley
Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...
.
Laubies died in India on 13 November 2006.
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*Cloutier, Guy. N.d. Untitled documenthttp://guycloutier.org/Laubies.htm
Clouds, 23.7.07.
Clouds, 14.3.09. 20th-century births 2006 deaths 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters 21st-century French painters 21st-century French male artists Art Informel and Tachisme painters Prix Fénéon winners Vietnamese emigrants to France {{France-painter-20thC-stub