The artists
Arman
Arman or Armand Fernandez, born in 1928 in Nice and died in 2005 in New York, is a French artist, painter, sculptor and visual artist, known for his “accumulations”. He was one of the first to use, as pictorial material, manufactured objects which he considered to be the natural and multiple extensions of the human hand, and which undergo a continuous cycle of production, consumption, destruction.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arman
Jean-Claude Farhi
French sculptor born in Paris in 1940 and died in Monaco in 2012, Jean-Claude Farhi grew up in Bogota (Colombia) before settling in Nice in 1957 where he met the main artists of the School of Nice: Ben, Gilli Alocco, Malaval… and the new realists Arman and Raysse. From 1968, he devoted himself to plexiglass sculptures (columns and discs, pyramids) then to so-called variable geometry sculptures, a direction in which he developed his work with monumental works. His latest monumental sculpture SECRET POINT in corten steel is installed in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Farhi
Jean-Luc Beaufils
Born in 1953, the artist spent his entire childhood in an artistic climate. His work has brought together for more than 40 years an important work on color and the post-cubist style influenced by his masters, Picasso, Braque and also Matisse.
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Hervé Di Rosa
Hervé Di Rosa, born in 1959 in Sète, is a French painter. Contemporary painter, he is with his brother Richard Di Rosa, François Boisrond, Rémi Blanchard and Robert Combas, one of the artisans of the French movement of “free figuration”, a revival of painting in the 1980s, a painting often borrowing to comics, rock and graffiti.
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Bernard Buffet
Bernard Buffet, born in 1928 in Paris and died in 1999 in Tourtour (Var), is a French expressionist painter, composing characters as well as figures, animals, nudes, landscapes, interiors, still lifes, flowers. A watercolorist, he is also a scenery painter and an illustrator.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Buffet
Caesar
César Baldaccini, known as César, is a French sculptor born in 1921 in Marseille and died in 1998 in Paris. He is part of the New Realists movement. He is also the creator of the bronze trophy for the French Cinema César ceremony and the Bocuse d'or cooking competition trophy.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/César_(sculptor)
Richard DiRosa
Richard Di Rosa, born in 1963 in Sète, is a French sculptor, the first of the French free figuration movement of which he is one of the precursors. Self-taught, bringing his particular vision to the work of his painter brother Hervé, he created his own universe. The color, the round and playful shapes of his characters testify to an aesthetic proximity to Joan Miró and Max Ernst. African culture, music and animals are all themes of inspiration for the artist. Exhibited in the United States in 1983, he pursued a career international.
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Robert Combas
Robert Combas, born in 1957 in Lyon, is a contemporary artist, painter, sculptor and illustrator. He is the initiator, with Hervé Di Rosa, of the artistic movement of free figuration. Leader of this movement in Europe, he is considered today as one of the most important contemporary French artists since the 1980s. He is the only French artist appearing in the annual Artprice ranking of the 500 most highly rated contemporary artists in the world. world. A major retrospective was dedicated to him in 2012 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, and in 2016 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
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Antonio Segui
Born in 1934 in Cordoba (Argentina), Antonio Seguí studied painting and sculpture in France and Spain in the early 1950s. Based in Paris since 1963, he is considered one of the greatest contemporary painters, made famous through his paintings depicting crowds of men dressed in suits and hats in urban landscapes, evocative of his native country. Antonio Seguí is mainly interested in painting, drawing, lithography and sculpture, and his universe is close to the world of comics.
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Foncky-Two
Foncky-Two, a living French artist whose identity remains a secret, is a creative sculptor. Born into a family of collectors, his imagination was awakened towards shapes and curves off the beaten track. His works reflect fantasy, humor and joie de vivre, with a taste for rounded and playful animal subjects.
Jean-Michel Gnidzaz
Born in Toulouse in 1947, Jean-Michel Gnidzaz, trained at the Toulouse School of Fine Arts, is known for his two- and three-dimensional abstract compositions which marked his work in the 1990s. Contemporary Pop Art artist, he has since initiated 2003, a new series of portraits dedicated to cultural icons of the 20th century.
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Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung, born in 1904 in Leipzig, and died in 1989 in Antibes, is a French painter, photographer and architect of German origin, one of the greatest representatives of abstract art. His extremely free technical experiments in the 1920s make him, in the eyes of many historians and critics, the precursor and pioneer of numerous avant-garde movements which will develop in the second half of the 20th century: the so-called informal, gestural, tachist movements. , lyrical, as well as action painting.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hartung
Peter Klasen
Peter Klasen, born in Lübeck in 1935, is a German painter, photographer and sculptor working on the theme of industry. He is one of the founders of New Figuration, also called Narrative figuration. In this movement we find in particular Valerio Adami, Erro, Jacques Monory, Bernard Rancillac And Hervé Télémaque.
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JonOne
Born in New York in 1963, John Andrew Perello, known as JonOne, is an American graffiti artist and painter who has lived and worked in Paris since 1987. His style is distinguished from the more figurative expressions of other graffiti artists, giving birth to abstract works influenced by by the movement, color and energy of the city.
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Olivier Debré
Born in 1920 in Paris where he died in 1999, Olivier Debré is a major representative of lyrical abstraction, alongside Poliakoff, Hartung, Soulages and Nicolas de Staël. His first paintings, produced around 1943, show the influence of Picasso. From 1945, he moved towards abstraction using gouache and Indian ink. Around 1950, he favored material and muted colors. At the turn of the 1960s, he returned to landscape, describing his more fluid painting as fervent abstraction because it symbolizes the emotion felt in front of the landscape. The time of maturity corresponds to major achievements for orders and international recognition.
Andre Lhote
André Lhote, born in Bordeaux in 1885 and died in Paris in 1962, is a painter representing the Cubist movement, engraver, illustrator, art theorist and French teacher. Endowed with great independence of mind and an original pictorial intelligence, he focuses on Fauvism, Impressionism and Cubism, while distinguishing himself with a very personal interpretation of the movement that interests him. André Lhote is one of the great unclassifiable modernists of his time.
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André Marfaing
André Marfaing, born in Toulouse in 1925 and died in Paris in 1987, is a French painter and engraver, non-figurative, associated with abstract art and representative of informal painting. He worked in oil, acrylic and engraving, mainly using black, in an abstract, ascetic painting, sometimes close to the ideogram.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Marfaing
Gen Paul
Eugène Paul, known as Gen Paul, born in 1895 in Paris and died in 1975 in the same city, is a French expressionist painter, draftsman, engraver and lithographer. Self-taught, friend of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Gen Paul painted his first paintings between 1919 and 1924 under the pseudonym Paul Trelade.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Paul
Victor Vasarely
Győző Vásárhelyi, known as Victor Vasarely, born in 1906 in Pécs, Austria-Hungary, and died in 1997 in Paris, is a Hungarian visual artist, naturalized French in 1961, recognized as the father of optical art.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Vasarely
François Pompon
François Pompon, born in 1855 in Saulieu and died in 1933 in Paris, is a French sculptor known to the general public for his animal sculptures whose innovative style is characterized by the simplification of shapes and polished surfaces.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Pompon
Théo Tobiasse
Théo Tobiasse, born Tobias Eidesas in 1927 in Jaffa and died in 2012 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, is a French painter, engraver, designer and sculptor. Her work is known for its themes around the Bible, Women and Exile, often extended by her “pictorial words”.
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Georges Mathieu
Born in 1921 in Boulogne-sur-Mer and died in 2012 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Georges Mathieu is a French painter considered one of the fathers of lyrical abstraction. He is also famous for his ten franc coin from 1974, his Antenne 2 logo from 1975, and his postal stamps.
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Antoniucci Volti
Antoniucci Volti, whose real name is Voltigero, is a French sculptor, designer and engraver of Italian origin, born in 1915 in Albano Laziale (Lazio) and died in Paris in 1989. His art is in line with that of Rodin, Bourdelle and Maillol, and integrates a new form – round, smooth, human – which recalls life and provides immediate pleasure. His creations are intended to be carnal and sensual, some glorifying the woman and her body of which the artist is the architect. Whether monumental or small, his sculpture is always rigorous, stable, balanced.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoniucci_Volti
Wang Yancheng
Born in China in 1960, Wang Yan Cheng graduated from the Yantai Academy of Fine Arts. Painter of the abstract, he mixes two very distinct cultures, the East and the West. He created a monumental painting for the Peking Opera, inauguratingBorn on December 31, 2007. Successor to Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh Chun, Wang Yan Cheng is one of the Franco-Chinese representatives of lyrical abstraction.
Source : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Yan_Cheng
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Somsak Hanumas
Somsak Hanumas was born in 1980 in Bangkok, Thailand. Initially trained as an engineer at the Royal Institute of King Mongkut in Ladkrabang, he returned to his first passion, painting, to which he has devoted himself fully for 15 years. Some of his works are kept in renowned collections, including the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris and the Magrez Foundation in Bordeaux. Self-taught, he developed a personal technique that required extreme patience, giving him time to think about the meaning of his painting. After painting a background on the canvas, he integrates a wave of colored dots, then uses a fine brush to trace series of meticulous lines and strokes superimposed on the dots, until covering the entire canvas. .
Camille Hilaire
Born in 1919 in Metz and died in 2004 in Fourges in Eure, Camille Hilaire is a French painter, lithographer, stained glass artist, upholsterer and mosaicist. Coming from a modest background, he first became a house painter, then began drawing and painting on the grounds. A young admirer of Albrecht Dürer, he developed a sure and incisive line, marked by the luminosity of the Italian masters. In the 1950s, he tried new techniques: watercolor, stained glass, tapestry. His work, painted or woven, expresses the beauty and diversity of his numerous travels which nourished his talent throughout the century. Alternating between post-cubism and figuration, his works, with their vibrant colors, are luminous, giving off an admirable and constant sensation of calm and grandeur.
Claude Venard
Claude Venard, born in 1913 in Paris and died in 1999 has Sanary-sur-Mer, is a painter French belonging to the movement post-cubist . Faithful to a post-cubist composition of his pictorial space, he gradually accentuates the chromatism of his palette to the rawest tones. As the paint is applied with a knife, his canvases become more textured, his shapes more geometric, his colors more vivid. His works are exhibited notably at the Tate Gallery from London, to Whitney Museum of new York and at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris .
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Andre Nadal
André Nadal was born in 1952 in Oran, Algeria. Very early on, he developed a passion for drawing and naturally attended drawing classes at the School of Fine Arts in Perpignan. In 1982, he discovered abstract painting and decided to devote himself entirely to it. André Nadal is an important player in contemporary optical art. His work appeals to the senses and is expressed through the emotion it releases. His architectural monochrome constructions are complex and precise; the play of light and shadow on his canvases offers several reading registers. These compositions floating in the void become an invitation to travel into a separate world where a feeling of peace and contemplation reigns.
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Jean Lambert-Rucki
Born in Krakow (Poland) in 1888 and died in Paris in 1967 , Jean Lambert-Rucki is a painter And sculptor of Polish origin , naturalized French after the war of 1914-18 . In 1909, he discovered Cubism during an exhibition presenting the works of Picasso. In 1911, he moved to Paris where he found his compatriot Moïse Kisling and shared his room with Modigliani who was very close to Soutine whose workshop was located at La Ruche where Marc Chagall, Blaise Cendrars, Gustave Miklos and Fernand Léger lived. . First attracted p After Cubism, he turned towards Surrealism in the 1930s.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lambert-Rucki
Moïse Kisling
Moïse Kisling, born in 1891 in Krakow (Poland) and died in 1953 in Sanary-sur-Mer (Var), is a French painter of Polish origin, attached to the School of Paris.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moïse_Kisling
Jean Miotte
Jean Miotte, born in 1926 and died in 2016, is a contemporary French painter linked to lyrical abstraction.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Miotte
Roland Chanco
Roland Chanco (pseudonym of Roland Chanconnier) is a French painter, an outstanding prolific colorist, born in 1914 in Reignac (Indre-et-Loire) and died in Antibes in 2017, at the age of 103. A painting artist since childhood, he settled in the 1930s in Montmartre where he met Maurice Utrillo, Edmond Heuzé, Gen Paul, Pablo Picasso, the latter remarking on the vigor of his paintings and claiming to “love his personal style”. Opting for a solitary and silent life, he settled in Roquefort-les-Pins in the 1960s to devote himself to new research, the culmination of which would be his kaleidoscopic period.
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“In the 1970s a superb, extraordinary work was born: his kaleidoscopic period. Chanco's creative power gives his compositions surprising effects, his themes seem to emerge from very ancient legends. Women, puppets, puppets, warriors spring from the depths of his imagination. Painted in the silence of the night, strange, unusual, extravagant characters vibrate under the colors. Chanco distorts things and beings, their expressions, their emotions, generates a personal world, it shocks and attracts at the same time. » Sandrine Cylver.
Love
Ljuba Popovic, known as Ljuba, born in 1934 in Tuzla (former Yugoslavia) and died in Belgrade (Serbia in 2016), is a painter, draftsman and engraver of Serbian origin. After studying in Belgrade, at the Academy of Arts Decorative and at the Academy of Fine Arts, he moved to Paris in 1963 where he lived for more than fifty years. His work, populated by strange creatures, surrounded by indefinable objects, buildings and landscapes, is often described as. “fantastic” or surreal.
Source : http://www.ljuba.fr/
Maurice Utrillo
Maurice Utrillo, born Maurice Valadon in 1883 in Paris and died in 1955 in Dax, is a French painter of the School of Paris. Born the day after Christmas to the painter Suzanne Valadon and an unknown father, he is one of the rare famous painters from Montmartre who was born there. Representative painter of theSchool of Paris, he painted landscapes in which houses or corners of villages appear, essentially views of Montmartre. Its catalogue raisonné lists some 2,840 paintings.
