Decisive for André Evard’s interest in the genre of still life is the exhibition held in 1916 in the large hall of the main post office in La-Chaux-des-Fonds. The organizers are Madeleine Woog, Charles Humbert, Philippe Zysset, and Lucien Schwob. Their works establish a change in Evard’s artistic work, and from then on, he also dedicates himself to still life motifs and interiors. He often focuses on a specific element and moves it close to the viewer. In doing so, he never completely abandons a certain fidelity to nature and spatial perspective, because despite all abstraction, this is indispensable for him as an artist. Evard’s work is immensely diverse in terms of stylistic expression and bears witness to the artist’s lively engagement with contemporary tendencies and currents in art. He often anticipates many later developments, processes all these suggestions, and thereby creates his own, constantly evolving style, whose immediate power and expressiveness speaks from each of his works.
