André-Aimé-René Masson (January 4, 1896 – October 28, 1987) was a French artist.

Masson was natural around Balagny-sur-Thérain inside France, but was brought higher in Belgium. He exposed art around Brussels and Paris. He fought for France within World War I and was seriously injured.

Masson's early works display an interest within cubism. He in the future became associated sustaining surrealism, and he was one of a virtually all enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a total of automatic works within pen & ink. From either in 1926 he experimented by throwing s& and mucilage onto canvas and making oil paintings depending as much as a shapes that formed. Per prevent of the 1920s, however, he was sorting through automatism like limiting, & he left the surrealist movement & turned instead to the extrthe integrated style, typically producing works by owning a violent or even titillating theme, & making a total of paintings inside reaction to the Spanish Civil War (he associated once more using a surrealists at a prevent of the 1930s).

Under a German occupation of France during World War II, his work was condemned per Nazis as degenerate. Sustaining a assistance of Varian Fry in Marseille, Massin escaped the Nazi regime on the ship to the French island of Martinique from where he went in to the United States. Upon arrival around New York City, U.S. customs officials inspecting Masson's baggage discovered the cache of his titillating drawings. Denouncing a two when pornographic, it ripped the children higher prior to the creative person's eyes.

Sleep in New Preston, Connecticut his work became an crucial influence in Western abstract expressionists. Ensuing a war, he returned to France & settled within Aix-en-Provence where he painted a total of landscapes.