Chapter 5 I The Anarchists on the Montmartre Hills (1) The Alcoholic Painter Utrilo

He drinks all day long.He drowned his sorrows with wine and anesthetized himself with wine. Aristide Bruant (1851-1925), a folk singer in Montmartre. Sandras Frederic Cendrars (1887—1961), a French writer and poet whose ancestral home was Switzerland. In 1913 published "Trans-Siberian Prose Poetry". ——Annotation lamented in despair in his Trans-Siberian Prose Poem written 16,000 miles away from Paris: "Bryce, tell me, are we still far from Montmartre?" Before World War I, Montmartre remained the center of the world. The person who contributed the most to the prosperity of Montmartre is undoubtedly Utriro, but unfortunately, the person who caused Montmartre to be looted and destroyed is also Utriro.He is unwilling to see such consequences, and he is also unwilling to paint.Its original intention was just to make ends meet, to survive.But when he painted a large number of paintings on the Place delle and the Galette windmill on the Montmartre hill, the prices of his confiscated German painting dealers' collections were soaring at the Drouot auction in 1921, and he lived in Montmartre. Mount Bute and Navarre, a Spanish kingdom in the Middle Ages, located in what is now the Basque Country on the border between France and Spain. ——The poor painters in the translation started to copy his works crazily, and imitated his painting method rigidly, which led to the loss of the creative atmosphere in Montmartre, and the imitated works were everywhere...

Yutriro is a weirdo. He was born locally in 1883, rue Porteau in the Montmartre district of Paris.The trees there are shady and weeds are overgrown. Although the political atmosphere cannot be said to be very relaxed, people can barely live freely there.It is easier to accept Papa Bena’s teachings on how to be a responsible person there, and Paul Geraldy (1885-1983), the poet who taught the secrets of married life, is a French poet who mainly writes poems describing life in the family .His "You and Me" was a huge success. ——Annotation is farther away. His mother, Suzanne Valadon, was short, with a round face and bright, sparkling blue eyes.She is not a dancer, but she is never forgotten by Montmartre, which is very rare.She has a strong personality, is very assertive, insists on being independent, and does not depend on anyone.Her moral conduct had a certain impact on the moral fashion at that time.

She comes from the countryside, her mother is a housewife, and her father ran away from home shortly after she was born.She came to Paris at a very young age.At that time, she talked nonsense, lied a lot, and made up an age at random, which was a few years younger than her actual age.She lied that she was from a wealthy family and concealed her real name. Her registered name was Marie-Clementina, and the painter who hired her as a model gave her the name Maria.She only revealed the name Susan later. She worked in various professions, and later entered the Fernando Circus as an acrobat.In a performance accident in the circus, she fell from a high altitude and was injured. She was forced to leave the circus and became a painting model.She is also Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898), a French painter. , Toulouse Lautrec, Renoir Renoir (1841-1919), French painter, member of the Impressionists, famous for his oil paintings, but also sculptures and prints.Model with Degas.Renoir and Degas were well-known opposition figures in the Dreyfus incident. They also signed the "Bales Declaration" of the French Federation of the Fatherland in October 1898.Seeing that Susan was more clever, Degas actively encouraged her to learn painting.

She was the lover of almost all her mentors and friends, as well as the musician Eric Satie.The composer wrote her 300 love letters in six months, calling her "my little baby", but never touched her.This simple and tender love did not last long. She had a son - Maurice.Little is known about who the father of her son is.He may not be Miguel Utrilo as some have speculated.Miguel Utrillo is Picasso's compatriot and his comrade in those years when he first came to Montmartre.Miguel is a painter and art critic for the Catalonia region in northeastern Spain.Most of his friends understood that his acknowledgment of his father-son relationship with Morris showed that he was a very generous lover.Francis Calco concluded that an alcoholic painter named Boissy was Maurice's real father, but this, too, could not be verified.

Susan Valadon married a friend of Satie after several years of dissolute life as a single mother.This is the first marriage in her life.The husband is an attorney and very rich.Her husband later sent Morris to St. Ana.Susan's marriage did not last for many years, and she found another husband.Her new pick is a good friend of her son's, named André Utter.Yutel is an electrician who is meticulous and responsible in his work, but he prefers painting.When Suzanne Valadon asked Utter to leave her job to help her, she was almost 45 years old.Uter is 20 years younger than her and three years younger than her son Maurice. His stepfather has become the youngest person in the family, and Maurice's grandmother also lives with the family of three. A very peculiar family.

Although this family is very strange, it is still a family in any case.Two young people often stood by Susan's side to watch her paint, one was a son and the other was a husband.The two young people also often paint together, love each other, and hit it off.The love and love between them is the love of colleagues and the love of brothers.From this perspective, no matter how people talk about this family, no matter how much gossip people have, this family painting is still harmonious. For a long time, because of Maurice, Susan had lived a very dissolute life, which led Maurice to become addicted to alcohol at a young age.Teenagers with a normal life in the Montmartre district go out to work during the day and only drink at night, but Utriro drinks regardless of day and night.This is a great misfortune to his mother, a long-term torment to him, and a boundless fear to the neighbors around him.In order to force him to stop for a moment, Uter and Valadon shut him up in the room, at which point he began to shout and groan hysterically.He cursed his mother and stepfather in a new way, tore up the paintings he created, and threw all the things in the room out of the window indiscriminately.Valadon, who was completely desperate, often had hysterical attacks, or frantically played the instrument at hand.Yutrilo, who didn't know music scores at all, snatched the flute from his mother's hand, and only blocked the hole with his fingers, blowing out a piercing single note with all his strength.The neighbors couldn't bear his behavior and had only one wish: try to make him learn to paint quickly! Try to calm him down as soon as possible!

Susan found a psychiatrist in St. Ana to examine her son, and the doctor said to her: "You have to find something for him to do, keep him away from alcohol." As she did, she encouraged her son to learn to draw.She locked him in a room, gave him many postcards, and said to him, "I'll open the door for you when you finish drawing them all." Yu Triro began to learn to paint.When painting, he is very concentrated, forgetting to sleep and eat, as if nothing is as important as what he is doing.But once the work in hand is over, the old illness will relapse, and he will not stop drinking.

He hated painting outside, because other people's eyes gave him a sense of privacy, which made him very uncomfortable and unbearable.Occasionally when painting outside, in order not to be spied on, he always leans his back against the wall.If anyone insisted on watching, he turned his back on the person who came, and the latter had to run away under his rage and scolding.After years of chastising and scolding suitors eager to see him paint, Utrillo's Montmartre landscapes remain mere reproductions of pictures from postcards. Francis Calco saw Utrillo paint with his own eyes.When he described Utrillo's expression when he was painting, he wrote: when carefully selecting which one to use from the palette he picked up, his expression was very focused, serious and serene; , he used compasses and rulers to measure and draw on his painting table, with a very cautious and careful attitude.Roland Dorjeles is also a friend of Utriro.He describes Utrillo's demanding, almost pathological, demands on the accuracy and precision of his reproductions:

He was never satisfied with how faithful his reproductions were to the original.He even required complete accuracy in the number of tiles used to cover the roof and the number of stones used to build walls.When grading, he was so angry that he couldn't get the ideal color that he smashed the paint tube.When he was trying to match chalk white, he said, "Aren't these exterior walls silvery white? Oh, no. They're not leaden gray either...they're plaster white..." When painting a house, he produced A quirky idea to paint walls with a mixture of glue and plaster.He often painted churches as the theme, and he said to us: "I like to paint churches." (Figure 2)

[Excerpt from Laurent Dorgelais's "A Group of Bohemian Artists", published in 1947] Friday is a very quiet day.Yutriro likes this day very much, and the reason is still because he loves churches.He especially liked the cathedral in Reims.He has a special admiration for Joan of Arc.Utriro's drawers and bookshelves are full of medals, busts and various commemorative items related to the saint.He spends the whole time of every Friday praying for the saint. Saturday, another day of hellish fun — binge drinking — for him.A doctor took him in for a few weeks.The doctor later revealed to Francis Calco quietly that Utrilo drank as much as eight to ten liters a day; In the husband and wife's bedroom, they also drank all the five bottles of perfume left there in one go.

The children on Montmartre Butte nicknamed him Litrio.After drinking enough wine, the artist strolls through the streets, elbows tucked around his waist, in a running posture, making a "chug, chug, chug" sound, and at the same time exhales imaginary smoke, imitating the Devil's Train 's arrivalAt this time, Montmartre's children followed him far away, imitating his steps.He said to himself: This train has just returned from hell, and there is only one person left alive in this world, and that is him Yutriluo.Chug Chug, Chug Chug... After tossing enough, he returned home, laid the toy train on the ground with rails, and played with the toy train, this time it was a real train in reality—even if it was a toy. The poet Andre Salmon said that one day, Yutriro successfully avoided the surveillance of his mother and stepfather, filled his pockets with everything necessary to set off fireworks and firecrackers, and hid in Montmartre's house. a hotel.He was alone in a room and set off fireworks.In the end the house caught fire.Firefighters and police soon surrounded the hotel.People outside shouted "It's on fire, put out the fire!" one after another, but Yutriro remained indifferent in the room. Soon after, Francis Calco published a book about Utrillo.After learning that the book asserted that he was mentally ill, poor Morris publicly claimed that he was not crazy, but to no avail.Since he firmly disagreed with Calco's own image portrayed in the book, he locked himself in his studio on Via Corto with two locks, and hung a dozen paintings outside the window.On the back of the painting it read: Mr. Calco said I was crazy.No, I'm not crazy, I'm an alcoholic. After being angrily reprimanded by Susan Valadon, all the bars in Montmartre refused Morris to enter.So he indulged himself in the mills of Cathedral Street or Gin Street.When he came home, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen.The next day, his mother received a postcard from the previous day.It was sent by her son, and there was only one sentence written on it: "Not drunk!" Morris admired his approach very much and was very proud. When penniless, Morris traded a painting for a glass of absinthe, or sat on the sidewalk and handed out his paintings to passers-by.A painting with his own inscription was sold for a few francs, and even delivered to your door.Some small shops on Pigalle Street, such as the shop of Jacobi, the retired butcher shop owner, and the shop of Papa Surrier, who was originally a wrestler and is now engaged in selling art, Montmartre by Utriro Landscape paintings are even cheaper. His works are finally sold, and Utriro can have a little pocket money from time to time.And so he was saved, but only through the kind help of Clovis Sagot, an old pastry-cook who used to live in the Rue Laffitte.Long ago, Clovis Sagot gave artists sweets and syrups he found in the basement of a drugstore, and he formed a close bond with them.According to many artists (including his client Picasso), Clovis Sagot claimed to be a printmaker, but in fact, he was nothing more than a second-hand dealer.However, it cannot be denied that he did know how to paint.On the eve of World War I, as he quickly realized the lucrative profits to be made from buying and selling paintings, Clovis Sagot immediately circulated the following ambiguously worded advertisement. Clovis Sagot started with a small investment.He proposed to acquire all the paintings in Utrillo's hands: a small size for 5 francs, a medium size for 10 francs, and a large size for 20 francs.Morris jumped at the unexpected opportunity because it gave him another chance to binge.From then on, he worked harder to paint, and at the same time, he drank more and more.Later, at the instigation of his mother, Susan Valadon, he left Sagot.His mother entrusted him to another businessman, Libod.Libod, a former horse auction appraiser, is now in charge of a magazine.He agreed to take care of Maurice on condition that his mother act as surety.After the agreement was signed, he began rehab for Morris.However, to no avail, in vain.Mother's efforts again ended in failure. Profit 2500% …………… Speculators! Please buy the painting! Pay 200 francs today, and you will sell it for 10,000 francs in 10 years ………………………………………… Please hurry up and 46 Lafayette Street Clovis Sagot Gallery Contact, There you will meet many young friends A few years later, Montparnasse on the left bank of the Seine, like Montmartre, became the center of gatherings and activities for artists.Kiki, a model that the painters at that time liked very much, came to Yutriro's studio.Alice-Pen Foujita, Kisling, Man Ray, and many others used this bubbly, playful young girl as a model for their paintings.The whole world is familiar with her bohemian demeanor and delicate beauty.One day, she came to Maurice Utrillo's studio, and Maurice agreed to paint a portrait of her. He made Kiki stand in front of his easel in the required pose, and he painted for three full hours.After it was over, the famous model of Montparnasse asked if she could take a look at the portrait he had just painted. "Of course." Yutriro replied very frankly. After speaking, he left the studio.The female model stepped forward and wanted to take a closer look at Yutriro's paintings, but she was stunned.She suddenly burst into a wild laughter, that laughter familiar to all the taverns in Montmartre on the left bank of the Seine.She leaned down again to check if she was mistaken.However, she was not mistaken at all.Neither her face nor her body was painted on the canvas.What Utriro drew in three hours turned out to be a small country farmhouse.