Roger Somville
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Roger Somville (Schaerbeek, November 13, 1923) is a modern Belgian painter. He defends realism against a modern abstract art, which is a way to unhumanize the human being.
In his book, Peindre, he denounces « tricks in the shape of art », « empty productions », « triumph of less than nothing », « null simplism », « aesthete bricolage », « conformity of what's never been seen », « submissiveness of the modern art in a globalized market »,...
He was a member of the comminist party, and he wrote once : « La Création d’un art public exaltant la vie et le travail des hommes, leurs luttes, leurs souffrances, leurs joies, leurs victoires et leurs espoirs ; art à placer à la portée de tous, là où passent et vivent les hommes ».
« The Creation of a public art praising men's life and work, their fights, their grieves, their joys, their victories, and their hopes; an art made for everybody to carry it there where men pass and live ».
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