Jean Ferrat Painting by Gief

Self-taught artist-painter, I created my first paintings in 2010, at the age of 19.
Specializing in portraiture, I work exclusively with acrylic on canvas. Inspired above all by the emotion of faces, it is in the gaze of muses, icons of cinema and music that I satisfy my quest.
The line, rapid, avoids any overload, I favor lines more than color and the portrait is refined by the restricted chromatic range.
Black and white portraits to which I add a touch of red, a trace of recognition, the last phase of the Great Work in alchemy.
Portraits that immortalize the greatest artists, in the style of the funerary masks of ancient Egypt.

Since 2016, the composition of the paintings has become more complex, they are paintings that are both dark and fantastic. Characters from popular culture (novels, cinema, music, etc.) are treated in a style inspired by both Romanticism and German expressionist cinema.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1991
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists