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Companionship 1925-1932
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Soon,
he found the instruction at the Fine Arts School both static and
routine; it seemed not to lead anywhere. He has a presentiment and
leaves the school in 1925 to create the Atelier Saint-Luc in a vast
unused room in a lace making factory. Several students from the school
with similar beliefs joined him, including a career soldier, a poet, a
sculptor and others from the lace making field [the author of this
article is also among this group]. The enthusiasm was high; studying
with live models, painting still-lives, and creating from the
imagination. We divided the plaster walls among ourselves and soon they
became covered with caricatures of mythological scenes.
REGNER's work at the time showed his attraction to mural painting, an
attraction that would later be the object of his research. In this
friendly atmosphere, everyone received from each other and gave to one
another. REGNER, who was the oldest of the group, revealed his capacity
for teaching. Nonchalantly, he would walk by, giving advice here and
there to those who were receptive, never pontificating. At the same
time and doubtlessly under his mother's diffuse influence, he started
to study the deepest mysteries of the esoteric, parapsychology, and the
automatic drawings of the Surrealists.
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