Aug 15, 2016
Michel JOUENNE was born on 25 January 1933 in Boulogne-sur-Seine.
In 1991, he was appointed Official Painter of the Navy.
Prolific artist, painter, but also lithographer, illustrator, and sculptor, Michel Jouenne is part of this nursery of talents from the “Young Painting of the Fifties”. His works illustrate life, the natural beauty of our planet through landscapes filled with color. Each of his paintings reveals the joy of his creation. He amazes with his opaque and translucent materials at the same time, his large watercolor plans, and his luminous shimmers. His talent was rewarded in high places. In 1987, he was made Knight of Cultural and Artistic Merit, then Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1990.
In 1987, he was made Knight of Cultural and Artistic Merit, then Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1990. He also produced several paintings representing views of the Capital: The Eiffel Tower, The Sacré Cœur, The cranes in Paris, or The Grand Palais. He also produced several paintings representing views of the Capital: The Eiffel Tower, The Sacré Cœur, The cranes in Paris, or The Grand Palais.
Hervé Bazin, for whom he made some illustrations in his book “Qui j’ose aime” (published in 1986 by Grasset) said of him: “Jouenne is a cantor of nature… Figurative, he is never a slave to subject he uses…”
Since the start of his career, Michel Jouenne has won fifty medals, including the gold medal for French artists in 1976.
PRICE
1987 – Chevalier du mérite culturel et artistique.
1990 – Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.
1991 – Peintre officiel de la Marine.ACQUISITIONS
Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris. Musée du Petit Palais, Genève. Musée 1’lle-de-France, Fontainebleau. Musée Världen, Suède. Musée des Baux-de-Provence. Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beyrouth. Préfecture de Seine-et-Oise. Préfecture des Yvelines (aquarelle). Préfecture de l’Ardèche. Conseil général des Yvelines. Villes de Paris, Taverny, Mantes-la-Jolie, Versailles, Viroflay, Deuil-la-Barre, Aubenas, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Angers, Mulhouse, Eygalières. Présidence de la République.BIBLIOGRAPHIE
JOUENNE – Collection ” Peintre d’aujourd’hui ” par André Flament (Editions l’Archipel).
JOUENNE – Collection ” L’OEuvre de l’homme du temps ” par Aubert jean (Editions Ventaol).
JOUENNE – Collection ” peintre de notre temps ” par Maguy Furhange.
JOUENNE – Collection ” A la découverte des peintres contemporains ” par René Leroy.
JOUENNE – Collection ” Artspective ” (éditeur dunes et fils).
JOUENNE – Monographie des Editions Aquitaine André Bump.
JOUENNE – Collection ” Le Léopard d’or ” (Edition Guigné). JOUENNE – Collection ” Play-Time ” préface d’Hervé Bazin.
Aug 15, 2016
Gnidzaz is born in 1947 in Toulouse.
Jean-Michel Gnidzaz we especially know bi and three-dimensional abstract compositions that marked his work in the 1990 Making use of collage games and folding single sheets of paper, rigorous geometric arrangements of directly effective color contrasts, the artist then revivifiait kinetics on a tradition unspectacular fashion. Jean-Michel Gnidzaz thus inspired the conceptual essence of the work of Soto rather than their tendency to gigantism, and refused the sanitized accuracy of other painters of the kinetic movement in favor of a personal touch restoring an essential gesture at a certain performativity of painting. Through his research, Jean-Michel Gnidzaz was able to produce a strong work, able to stand out with impertinence of figureheads who staked his training at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse and the beginnings of his artistic career.
After a decade of reflection devoted to geometric compositions, Jean-Michel Gnidzaz breaks today with the pure abstraction, and a new direction in his work. Since 2003, he initiated a new series of portraits dedicated to the cultural icons of the twentieth century. Struck by the persistence in the collective unconscious of certain images or photographs of major cultural figures of the twentieth century, in particular those facing rebellion synonymous with the established order, Jean-Michel Gnidzaz questions here their iconic status.
Neutralizing the background of the original photograph, recomposing the portrait from two games and trichromatic, flat tints and alternating colored stripes reintroducing some kinetics, he deprives these incunabula of contemporary history of identification too immediate.
So aside for a moment of consensus, respect agreed that their reserves usually these popular idols found some ability to belabor the viewer. The process grows to take a quick historical perspective to evolve our questions: what today would mean the beades, James Dean, or even Coluche in our society; what place they occupy in the minds of future generations; they escape the decorative status to which the commercial exploitation of their image relegated them? No, not yet have the answer, but the work of Jean-Michel Gnidzaz questions wisely.
This new series of portraits, and the flood of questions it raises arise fail as a new milestone in his artistic career and makes us curious to future developments.
Aug 15, 2016
ERRO is an Icelandic artist, whose real name Gudmundur Gudmunson, born July 19 to Ólafsvík 1932.He arrived in Paris in 1958, after art and mosaic studies. It will become one of the major figures of narrative figuration.
During his travels around the world, Erró collect images (advertisements, news photos, cartoons, posters, policy papers) that are his source of inspiration. It selects, assembles, accumulates at his pleasure – always with humor, sometimes with anguish and violence – on the canvas to form tables are all reading that view. Painting is a place of experimentation, where it can do the old with the new. It is the private form of utopia, the pleasure of contradicting the happiness of being alone against all, the joy of cause. It reveals and denounces the aberrations of our society: consumer directed erotic mercantile revolutions, existence Americanization …
In some of his compositions, he cleverly inserts characters from paintings by Ingres, Delacroix, Léger and Picasso, which was found coexisting with movie stars, politicians or comics heroes.
He often works in series : Chinese cycles , political, erotic . I need efficient equipment and , during my travels, I searched everywhere in discount stores books in kiosks . I accumulate a huge amount of material , and when I met a lot of images relating to a theme, it’s a sign to start a series. The process then is to select images , in the ” married ” together to make collages and paintings .
In June 2001, the Erró Collection of the Museum of the City of Reykjavík is presented to the public in its new framework Hafnbarhúsid in favor of a major retrospective.
Numerous exhibitions devoted to his work both in France and abroad.
Several retrospective was dedicated to him in 1985 at the Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris and in 1999 at the National Gallery Jeu de Paume. In 2005, the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Palma de Mallorca and the Mannheimer Kunstverein present a retrospective exhibition (1958- 2004) and the IVAM in Valencia and Alcalá 31 in Madrid in 2006.
Aug 15, 2016
Charlotte LACHAPELLE is born in 1955 in Souillac in the Lot.
His childhood was rocked by the length of the Quercy.
Founding member of the Group Modern Primitives “said Naifs”
Salon d’Automne International Art Salon Naif Paris. Associate of French Artists.
Group exhibitions:
CROISSY – PAU – MOUGINS – Vaison la Romaine – MEGEVE – Anglet – Belgium – England – Switzerland – USA – CANADA – JAPAN – GERMANY – SPAIN – ITALY.
Museums:
Museums Sherbrook: CANADA
Naif museum Lannes: BELGIUM
Museums of Art Naif Max Fourny, the Halle Saint-Pierre Paris
Museums of Art Naif of the Ile de France to Vicq.
Founding member of the primitive painters group , his work is presented in various museums , is a serenade to happiness. It communicates a sense of peace , tenderness and freshness. It is a testimony of sensitivity , it is a poetic look , these are the states of mind of an artist who has definitely chosen to slam the door in the gloom.
rewards:
First Audience Award, International Exhibition, Nancy, 1988.
Knight with Academic Palms Silver Belgium.
Switzerland Price with Special Mention.
Medal of the City of Orléans
Television :
FR 3 Champagne
An enchanted and enchanting world, that of Charlotte LACHAPELLE.
In this artist, all plastic elements are represented: the composition, balance, color harmony; and despite perfection, nothing is static, everything sings, free, vibrate under our eyes.
Charlotte LACHAPELLE is present on the New edition of BENEZIT, Volume VIII, page 127. Edition Gründ 1999.
“For me painting is above all a pleasure . Fun to contrast colors or soften in pastel shades , to degrade . Pleasure to camp in my characters a gesture, an attitude and stage all.
Pleasure to compose all the elements, with obsolete items familiar , unusual . Pleasure to share with you and draw you into the magical world of childhood memories, in a world in brackets , idealized , tender and nostalgic, to the magic of a happy world . ” Charlotte Lachapelle
Aug 15, 2016
Guy Fontdeville was born April 2, 1947 in Toulouse.
A graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse.
Exhibitions :
1989-2011: Salon des Artistes Southerners – Toulouse
1992 Salon d’Automne – Paris
1994: European Fair International – Montreux
Creating Posters:
1991: Displays Regional Tourism Committee Midi Pyrenees.
1995 Poster Fight against cancer, Centre Claudius Régaud – Toulouse.
1996: Displays the Atlanta Olympic Games (USA).
References :
Painters and sculptors of the great Southwest – Art publishing “Regards” Art in all its forms: Painters and sculptors of Midi -Pyrenees – Edition ” Fusart ” Masters in Provence – Publisher: Monique Dijaux – Emieux Painting
Painting Fontdeville penetrates us , we invaded , fills us … the material is silky and beautiful, bold color in his reports …
“Bruises unfathomable to the most ardent orange, Fontdeville works in the dough and fresh, generously, in large flat areas in momentum, the dynamics of gesture and knife. ”
The work of Fontdeville targets informed art lovers … His technique is based on the essential criteria: the mastery of sign, the drawing invisible at first glance there is nevertheless essential base that will disappear under the spatula, mix, mixed work and painting.
As in literature, find the right words to say essentially it is the same in painting Fontdeville, the “write” facilitated by eliminating unnecessary details … great art, spontaneously go to the aim, in a soaring notes sound flat areas treated with flexibility.
Guy Fontdeville dare colors! All colors without limit. It makes them live so they talk to meet and talk to us.
Blue unfathomable to the most ardent orange, Guy Fontdeville works in the dough and fresh, generously, in large flat areas in momentum, the dynamics of gesture and knife.
Attentive to the purity of the online access to the most subtle confines of balance. Jean -Louis April (Univers des Arts).
