Andre Masson

Andre Masson is a french sculptor, illustrator, designer and writer. He was the first artist to try automatic drawing, and so influenced a lot of well-known artists.
He started out painting forests, card players and still life and then moved onto experiments with automatic drawing. He participated from 1924-9 in the Surrealist movement. He made further works exploring chance effects, including sand paintings, as well as paintings of metamorphoses of animal and human forms, themes of germination, combats and massacres, with emphasis on violence and eroticism.