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Sometimes, I paint with colour first and then with black. Sometimes it is the other way round. Sometimes, I start from nothing, without knowing how it is going to end up. And sometimes I have a little idea of what I want to do. When I want to enlarge a drawing I do not use squaring up techniques. It gets bigger by itself. I also use collage that are included in the composition. Concerning the colours, I have a greater choice now, for my first canvases I was painting with colours only available at the Art Academy<\/p>\n
I do not follow any rule. It all depends. I have been taken in by the black, and now, when I turn to black it is finely drawn. The text or poem that comes with the painting is written afterwards. At the beginning, I was using purer and simpler forms, and little by little it became full of detail. Actually it depends, I painted smaller pastels, and crazy lingerie, it’s completely baroque, with knights and triangular Middle-Ages kings. Acrylic was invented to render the watercolor effect on a greater scale, but you need to paint quickly. I also paint geometrical forms and underline them with black. To get any real work done you have to hole yourself up, it’s sad but true.
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The different subjects I choose express my freedom: classical subjects such as portraits, battles, bestiaries, landscapes, or settings, and \u201cgenre scenes\u201d. In my opinion, everything triggers the imagination: it can be a woman, a historical topic or current events, a setting, an animal or an \u201cunclassifiable\u201d scene, that sprung up from my unconsciousness.<\/p>\n
There are some paintings which I improvise without having a preliminary subject, and others in which I express a matured idea. It happens that I start with an idea, and eventually my hand carries me somewhere else.<\/p>\n
I had a lot of \u201ctheme\u201d exhibitions. At first, it was Yvon Lambert, my gallery in the 1980s, who suggested some subjects, and I was really interested to explore into depth themes like the bestiary, the Louvre masterpieces, portraits, the Trojan war, the \u201csaints\u201d. I continued these theme exhibitions with a tribute to Toulouse Lautrec shown in Albi, a tribute to Brassens shown in my hometown S\u00e8te, and an exhibition on Music held in the Fondation Coprim in Paris. In 2007 I produced an exhibition on cinema in Cannes. In 2010, I became interested in Milton’s Lost Paradise and ended up with the exhibition \u201cSans filet, les Goulamas dans le trou\u201d, which focused on the theme of the Fall.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_media_grid grid_id=”vc_gid:1455535195270-44e0afda-258f-7″ include=”455,456,457″][vc_empty_space][vc_media_grid grid_id=”vc_gid:1455535195300-4e035d12-1fab-8″ include=”458,459,460″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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