The poet and painter Corneille (Cornelis/Corneille Guillaume van Beverloo) was a leading figure in the European CoBrA movement of around 1950. Like many CoBrA artists, he moved to Paris, where he became a prominent post-war European modernist. His colorful, vigorous paintings with often childlike and mythical imagery were typical of CoBrA, though his work tended to be more lyrical and less aggressive than that of other CoBrA artists. In the 1950s, Corneille abandoned most figuration for abstraction, often inspired by landscapes and specific locales. Figuration returned to stay in the 1960s. Corneille traveled extensively and was strongly influenced by ethnographic art, including African iconography. He is a prolific printmaker and produced graphic portfolios with writers and poets, including Octavio Paz. Corneille’s work of the past several decades has been criticized for its repetitiveness and overly stylized, commercial nature, but his prints in this manner are popular in Europe. Corneille participated in the Venice Biennale, the Sao Paulo Biennale and Germany’s Kassel Dokumenta. His work is in prominent museums worldwide, including Paris’ Centre Pompidou, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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