Roger Chastel - Le Tour De Cartes -1958 Oil Painting Mid Century French Expressionist - Oil painting on canvas - signed and dated 1958/59 Canvas size: 21x25" - Frame size: 23x27" Artist Biography Roger Chastel (1897 - 1981) was active/lived in France. Roger Chastel is known for Painting. Born in 1897, Roger Chastel's creative work was largely influenced by the 1900s and 1910s. The first decades of the 20th century were defined by the dynamic development of visual and pictorial art. These years were an time of experimentation, with artists exploring into ideas surrounding Post-Impressionism, Expressionism and Abstraction. These innovations inspired artist communities and collectives across the globe, with many groups exploring different methods of communicating their ideas. After the First World War, artists endeavoured to explore psychological applications of art in response to the horrors they had witnessed. Dadaism, an absurdist movement inspired directly by the events of the war, spread to a number of countries across Europe and established the careers of famous artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Hannah Höch and Kurt Schwitters. The movement of Surrealism, inspired by ideas concerning psychology and the subconscious which were first developed by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, was developed from the ideas posed by Dada.