Pol bury biography sample
Pol Bury ( - ) was active/lived in Belgium, France.!
Born in in Belgium, Bury was initially a painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.
Pol BURY
Born in 1922 in Haine Saint-Pierre in Belgium, Pol Bury studied at the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Mons from 1938, and between 1940 and 1953, he started his career as a painter.
Interested for a short time in the surrealist movement, he notably participated as an illustrator in the surrealist review «L’invention collective» created by Magritte and Ubac in 1940. In 1945, he becomes one of the founders of the «Haute nuit» group with Achille Chavée, which specialised in publishing, and took part in the COBRA’ movement in 1949.
He created the Montbéliard academy with André Balthasar in 1954.
Having discovered Calder’s works, he abandoned painting for the sculpture and exhibited for the first time his «Plans Mobiles».
Influenced by cinetism, he created panels the appearence of which depends on the position of the visitor. In 1957 his first animated works appeared, called «Multi-plan