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Tropiques • 15 artworks
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Familiar with the peaceful vegetation of the landscapes of Ile-de-France, moved by the more austere [...]
Familiar with the peaceful vegetation of the landscapes of Ile-de-France, moved by the more austere vegetation of the Breton moors, in love with the dry and perfumed garrigues of the Mediterranean, I was overwhelmed during a stay in the West Indies by the exuberance, the luxuriance of the tropical flora. The abundance, the superimpositions, the unknown shapes of the leaves, the extreme colors and the variety of the design of the exotic flowers which, like multicolored birds, delight the green of the palms.
I went for long walks in the hot and humid thickness of these still primitive forests, on the thick sides of the volcano, under the canopy of the vast banana plantations where the sun plays between the giant palms. I drew at the foot of the immense trees with the trunks of cathedral buttresses, the wet foliage, the deep mosses, the bright flowers or the monstrous fruits... everything became a challenge. Back in the studio, I took up the forms and colors of this powerful nature like the vocabulary of a new language to organize the surface of the canvas in an almost abstract form: obliques of the slope of the palms, more or less tight latticework of branches and roots, sinuosity of lianas, colored growths of flowers or fruits here and there, and often, the blue of the sky or the water and the yellow of the sun
These are my "Tropics".
I went for long walks in the hot and humid thickness of these still primitive forests, on the thick sides of the volcano, under the canopy of the vast banana plantations where the sun plays between the giant palms. I drew at the foot of the immense trees with the trunks of cathedral buttresses, the wet foliage, the deep mosses, the bright flowers or the monstrous fruits... everything became a challenge. Back in the studio, I took up the forms and colors of this powerful nature like the vocabulary of a new language to organize the surface of the canvas in an almost abstract form: obliques of the slope of the palms, more or less tight latticework of branches and roots, sinuosity of lianas, colored growths of flowers or fruits here and there, and often, the blue of the sky or the water and the yellow of the sun
These are my "Tropics".
Skyes and Clouds • 10 artworks
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In contrast to the opaque evidence of the ground and its immovable permanency, the sky offers a space [...]
In contrast to the opaque evidence of the ground and its immovable permanency, the sky offers a space of possibilities, transparencies, transitions and abstract depths. It's a theater of metamorphoses and illusions, where time draws and erases the uncertain, shifting shapes of the great clouds. The temptation is great to inscribe their traces on the immobility of a single drawing, to interweave spaces, and like reflections on a glass pane, to superimpose other horizons... and sometimes the desire to introduce some geometric outline, pure and simple lines into the teeming complexity of the clouds to architect the whole.
paintings and pastels around nature and history • 10 artworks
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Nature • 13 artworks
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Painting the bulge of hills, a few bushes in the cool of forests, drawing the swelling of sap in the [...]
Painting the bulge of hills, a few bushes in the cool of forests, drawing the swelling of sap in the veins of leaves, following the slow swelling of a cloud with a brush, all express my urban nostalgia for spaces that are not very humanized...
The relationship between nature and man. Today, the preservation of what little remains of the raw ocean is the order of the day. Man is the main agent of erosion of spontaneous forces. Reverse the balance and reclaim nature's strength. Where man's trace was still fragile and erasable. Rediscover reversibility. Paths in the fields, trails in the forest that can be reabsorbed into plant growth in just a few years. Rediscover the first milestones of our origins. Recreate the first breakthroughs, the first penetrations, humanization by exellence. Find and redraw the first square lines of land appropriation. Rediscover Romulus' furrow beneath Rome...
Cézanne sought behind the disorder of appearances the hidden structures of nature. Now we find the mental structures that man has superimposed on those of nature. The interweaving of the real and the virtual.
The aesthetics of the cut, the furrow, the slit where another space begins, a strange depth.
The relationship between nature and man. Today, the preservation of what little remains of the raw ocean is the order of the day. Man is the main agent of erosion of spontaneous forces. Reverse the balance and reclaim nature's strength. Where man's trace was still fragile and erasable. Rediscover reversibility. Paths in the fields, trails in the forest that can be reabsorbed into plant growth in just a few years. Rediscover the first milestones of our origins. Recreate the first breakthroughs, the first penetrations, humanization by exellence. Find and redraw the first square lines of land appropriation. Rediscover Romulus' furrow beneath Rome...
Cézanne sought behind the disorder of appearances the hidden structures of nature. Now we find the mental structures that man has superimposed on those of nature. The interweaving of the real and the virtual.
The aesthetics of the cut, the furrow, the slit where another space begins, a strange depth.
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Professional Artist
Exercises the profession of artist as a main activity
Exercises the profession of artist as a main activity
Biography
1958 -1963 studies of drawing and painting to the Julian Academy then in the"Beaux-Arts" (national high school of Art) Paris.
Last personal expositions in France:
1984 Gallery IQ Arelis. Paris.
1986 Hotel of Savigny, with the invitation of the town of Provins.
1988 Gallery Terre des arts. Paris.
1989 Gallery Etienne de Causans. Paris.
1989 cultural Workshop, with the invitation of the town of Nangis.
1993 Gallery Etienne de Causans. Paris.
1995 Gallery Spaces vision. Paris
1997 Gallery Etienne de Causans. Paris.
2000 Gallery Etienne de Causans. Paris
2003 association George Brassens.
2005 Gallery Etienne de Causans. Paris
2009 Gallery Saint-Roch. Paris
2011 Gallery Saint-Roch. Paris
2011 Gallery Le cadre d'Olivier Paris
2012 Gallery Saint-Roch. Paris
2013 Gallery Saint-Roch. Paris
2016 Gallery Saint-Roch. Paris
2018 Gallery Ère du Large. Locquirec 29241
2018 Gallery Saint-Roch. Paris 2022
2019 Arts et Vie Plozevet 29710
2020 Galerie Reg'Arts, Brignogan-Plage 29890
2021 Halles de Guerlesquin. 29650
2022 Bordeaux - Parempuyre
2022 Galerie Le cadre d'Olivier 36000 Châteauroux
several participations in :
Salon des Indépendants. Paris
Salon d'Automne. Paris
Salon des artistes Français. Paris
Salon du Dessin et de la peinture à l'eau. Paris
Expositions hors de France,
London (England), Berlin, Heidelberg (allemagne), Varsovie (Poland), Xian (China)
Mention honorable. Salon des artistes français.
First price with the Show of the artist-painters of Paris XV° in 199O and 1993.
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- Date of birth : 1940
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists
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"sky on the point" pastel
1958 -1963 studies of drawing and painting to the Julian Academy then in the"Beaux-Arts" (national high school of Art) Paris.
Last personal exposures:
2022 Galerie Le cadre d'Olivier 36000 Châteauroux "Tropiques
2022 Bordeaux - Parempuyre "nouvelles images d'Égypte"
2021 Halles de Guerlesquin. 29650 "de roc et de feuilles"
2020 Galerie Reg'Arts, Brignogan-Plage 29890 "Luxuriances"
2019 Arts et Vie Plozevet 29710 "Images de Bretagne et d'ailleurs"
2018 Galerie Saint-Roch. Paris : "Images d'Égypte"
2018 Galerie Ère du Large. Locquirec 29241 : "Tropiques"
2016 Galerie Saint-Roch. Paris : "Venise au fil de l'eau"
2015 Galerie La Différence, 29660 Carantec : "Tropiques"
2014 Chapelle St Antoine 29252 2014 "Marines"
Galerie Plurielle. 34200 Sète : "Tropiques"
2013/2014 Galerie Saint-Roch. Paris : "Itinéraires"
2012 Galerie Saint-Roch. Paris : "Pastels Méditerranéens"
2011 Le Cadre d'Olivier. Paris "Collages et papiers découpés"
2011 Caveau de Beatrice Mayard. Châteauneuf du Pape : "Méditerranée"
2011 Galerie Saint-Roch. Paris : "Tropiques"
2009 Galerie Saint-Roch. Paris : "Voyages"
2005 Galerie Etienne de Causans. Paris : "Nature et Histoire"
2003 association Georges Brassens. Paris
2000 Galerie Etienne de Causans. Paris
1997 Galerie Etienne de Causans. Paris.
1995 Galerie Espace vision. Paris
1993 Galerie Etienne de Causans. Paris.
1989 Atelier culturel, à l'invitation de la ville de Nangis.
1989 Galerie Etienne de Causans. Paris.
1988 Galerie Terre des Arts. Paris.
1986 Hôtel de Savigny, à l'invitation de la ville de Provins.
1984 Galerie Q.I. Arelis. Paris.
Sociétaire du Salon d'Automne
Membre du groupe " Spotkania-Rencontres-Begegnungen"
expositions en Allemagne : Darmstadt (septembre 2010) puis Heidelberg (octobre-novembre 2010 à la Galerie Melnikow),
du 7 au 24 Avril 2011 à Berlin à la Galerie 'Kunstraum KO", puis du 20 mai au 15 Juin 2011 en Pologne à Varsovie à la galerie Delfiny,
enfin en Juillet 2011 à Paris à la Galerie Le roi Doré
2022 invité d'honneur au Salon Art Locquirec
Mai 2019, exposition d'une dizaine de "Tropiques à l' "Art Fair de Hampstead" à Londres
Mai 2019, exposition d'une de mes grandes toiles de forêt à la Cité d'Art International de Xi'An (Shaanxi) Chine
Premier prix au Salon des artistes-peintres
du XVème arrondissement de Paris, en 199O et en 1993.
Mention d'honneur en 2010
Added Sep 27, 2004
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My works are almost around nature, wild landscapes where your can relax your mind. Rocks and mountains, trees and leaves, beaches and skys are my favorite motives.
I also work around history, specially about ancient Greece and Egypt . I brought bach a lot of drawings and paintings from my journeys in Europa, Egypt, Moroco, or Jordania.
You can connect to my personnal web site where I present works of the last ten years.
Added Sep 27, 2004
my workshop in Paris
A quite place above a garden with children and birds.
The photograph shows the pastel corner...
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