Depardieu (2018) Painting by Philippe Caspar

Born in Strasbourg in 1982, graphic designer by trade; self-taught artist, mainly influenced by cinema, literature, music and comics.

  Caspar has been drawing assiduously since childhood with artists such as Bernie Wrightson, Frank Frazetta, Marcel Gotlib, Claude Serre, Bill Watterson and Robert Crumb as models, whose quality and strength of drawing arouse close admiration in him. of idolatry. Painting arrived later thanks to Jean Léon Gérome (his Head of a Woman with Ram's Horns is decisive) and to academic painting in general, William Bouguereau and Hippolyte Flandrin in particular. Then come Klimt, Hopper, Pollock and Basquiat.

  The aesthetics of the films of John Carpenter, George Roméro and David Cronenberg, the atmosphere of the books of Philip K Dick and Stephen King contribute to forging a fantastic filter through which a large part of his pictorial work passes.
  Attracted by abstraction, he works on his colors with the aim of finding their raw force, almost independently of the drawing serving as the basis of the canvas, without ever, however, losing sight of it.

  A canvas merging the essence of the art of Jean Léon Gérome with that of Jean Michel Basquiat would constitute, in his eyes, a sort of ideal.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : unknown date
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists