Villon, Jacques

(July 31, 1875 – June 9, 1963)  Villon was a French cubist painter. Born Gaston Emili Duchamp, Villion took his pseudonym in honor of the French poet Francois Villon.  He was a member of a group of French artists, including his brother Marcel Duchamp, called "Section d'Or" (1).
He is known for his cubist paintings but is also linked to the impressionism and futurism movements in painting.
In The Necessay Angel, Wallace Stevens says  "there is a universal poetry that is reflected in everything."  
He compares the paintings of VIllon to "the poetry in the prose of Proust."  The two arts of poetry and painting  "have in common a laborious element, which, when it is exercised, is not only a labor but a consummation as well."
He writes that before he sat down to write his essay "Relations Between Poetry and Painting," he was able to see an exhibit of Villon's art in New York.  He says he was "immediately conscious of the presence of the enchantments of inntelligence in all his prismatic material.  A woman lying in a hammock was transformed into a complex of planes and tones, radiant, vaporous; exact. . . .These works were deliciae of the spirit as distinguished from delectationes of the senses and this was so because one found in them the labor of calculation, the appetite for perfection."
==Cubist Paintings of Jacques Villon==
89.jpg|Le taureau et les gémeaux, 1937
home_artwork.gif|Comedie de societe
villon_11.jpg|Soldiers Marching
Villon_dining_table.jpg|The Dining Table,1912
==References==
Jacques Villion - MoMA
Jacques Villon Biography
Stevens, Wallace. Necessary Angel. Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose. Ed. Frank  Kermode and Joan Richardson. New York: Library of America, 1997. 740-751.