Jacques Soisson
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Jacques Soisson is a French artist as well as a child and adolescent psychotherapist. He paints in the manner of Art Brut.
Commencing in 1966 to work as a child and adolescent psychotherapist he made some attempts to art therapy
. This turned out so well that from then on he originated the "Atelier d’art-thérapie". All painted works by the patients during this therapy were collected and donated to the Museum of Hospice St. Roch in Issoudun.
Further he collaborated with the "Institut Édouard Claparède
de Neuilly-sur-Seine
"
One year later, in 1969 Soisson joined the Société d’Art Brut, having been founded by Jean Dubuffet
. It ensued an acquaintance between both.
In the year 1978 Jacques Soisson gave up his profession and dedicated to painting, animated by Dubuffet.
Today he lives and paints in Paris.
Life
Soisson studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse and continued at the École des Beaux-arts de Montpellier.Commencing in 1966 to work as a child and adolescent psychotherapist he made some attempts to art therapy
Art therapy
Because of its dual origins in art and psychotherapy, art therapy definitions vary. They commonly either lean more toward the ART art-making process as therapeutic in and of itself, "art as therapy," or focus on the psychotherapeutic transference process between the therapist and the client who...
. This turned out so well that from then on he originated the "Atelier d’art-thérapie". All painted works by the patients during this therapy were collected and donated to the Museum of Hospice St. Roch in Issoudun.
Further he collaborated with the "Institut Édouard Claparède
Édouard Claparède
Édouard Claparède was a Swiss neurologist and child psychologist.Studies of science and medicine, later of psychology under Théodore Flournoy; 1897 MD from the University of Geneva; 1897-98 at La Salpêtrière hospital in Paris; 1901 foundation of the Archives de psychologie with Flournoy, which he...
de Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.Although Neuilly is technically a suburb of Paris, it is immediately adjacent to the city and directly extends it. The area is composed of mostly wealthy, select residential...
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One year later, in 1969 Soisson joined the Société d’Art Brut, having been founded by Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.-Life and work:Dubuffet was...
. It ensued an acquaintance between both.
In the year 1978 Jacques Soisson gave up his profession and dedicated to painting, animated by Dubuffet.
Today he lives and paints in Paris.
Publications by Soisson
- „Dare dare: un livre d'art ou le coeur a l'ouvrage“, Acayoulge, 1990
- „As-tu connu Machu Picchu?“, Nidra PollerNidra PollerNidra Poller is an American writer and translator who has lived in Paris since 1972. She has contributed to English-language publications such as The Wall Street Journal, National Review, FrontPage Magazine, and The New York Sun....
and Jacques Soisson, Messidor/La Farandole, 1984 - „Le cœur au repos“, Jacques Berne and Jacques Soisson, Chez Michel Bon, imprimeur taille-doucier, 1980
- „Le sacré corps“, ed. Joseph Delteil, B. Grasset, 1976, p. 202 ff.