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Camille Clovis Trouille was born on 24 October 1889, in La Fère, France. He worked as a restorer and decorator of department store mannequins, but is remembered as a Sunday painter who trained at the École des Beaux-Arts of Amiens from 1905 to 1910. He died on 24 September 1975 in Paris. ==Works== *His service in World War I gave him a lifelong hatred of the military, expressed in his first major painting ''Remembrance'' (1931). The painting depicts a pair of wraith-like soldiers clutching white rabbits, an airborne female contortionist throwing a handful of medals, and the whole scene being blessed by a cross-dressing cardinal. This contempt for the Church as a corrupt institution provided Trouille with the inspiration for decades of work: *''Dialogue at the Carmel'' (1944) shows a skull wearing a crown of thorns being used as an ornament. *''The Mummy'' shows a mummified woman coming to life as a result of a shaft of light falling on a large bust of André Breton. *''The Magician'' (1944) has a self-portrait satisfying a group of swooning women with a wave of his magician's wand. *''My Tomb'' (1947) shows Trouille's tomb as a focal point of corruption and depravity in a graveyard. *Trouille's other common subjects were sex, as shown in ''Lust'' (1959), a portrait of the Marquis de Sade sitting in the foreground of a landscape decorated with a tableau of various perversions, and a "madly egoistic bravado" employed in a self-mocking style. *His 1946 portrait of a reclining nude shown from behind entitled ''Oh! Calcutta, Calcutta!'' - a pun in French - was chosen as the title for the 1969 musical revue. (The French phrase "oh quel cul t'as" translates roughly as "oh what a lovely ass you have".) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clovis Trouille」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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