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-Michel Atlan
Jean-Michel Atlan, born on 23 January 1913 in Constantine (Algeria) and died on 12 February 1960 in Paris's 6th arrondissement, was a French painter. Atlan began painting in 1944 without any preconceived order or formal structure, fascinated as he was by the material rendered in colour strokes, rubbing and other erasures, as in Peinture (1947). He only developed a thoughtful style from 1950 onwards, when the informal gave way to a plastic organisation. In 1980, he was the subject of a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou.
Richard Di Rosa
Richard Di Rosa, born in 1963 in Sète, is a French sculptor and one of the pioneers of the French free figuration movement. Self-taught, he brought his unique vision to the work of his brother, the painter Hervé, and created his own universe. The colour and playful, rounded forms of his characters reveal an aesthetic affinity with Joan Miró and Max Ernst. African culture, music and animals are among the themes that inspire the artist. Exhibiting in the United States since 1983, he has pursued an international career. Find out more about the artist on his website:
http://buddy.dirosa.free.fr
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.
Find the artist on his website: https://dirosa.org/herve/
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
Cesar
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)
Chagall
Chagall is one of the most famous artists to have lived in France in the 20th century, alongside Pablo Picasso. His work, which does not belong to any particular school, displays characteristics of surrealism and neo-primitivism. Inspired by Jewish tradition, life in the shtetl (Jewish village in Eastern Europe) and Russian folklore, he developed his own symbolism based on the artist's personal life. In addition to painting on canvas, Chagall tried his hand at engraving, sculpture, ceramics, poetry, stained glass painting, enamel painting, etc.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Chagall
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.
Find the artist on his website: https://www.combas.com/
Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung, born in Leipzig in 1904 and died in Antibes in 1989, was a French painter, photographer and architect of German origin, and one of the greatest representatives of abstract art. His extremely free technical experiments in the 1920s made him, in the eyes of many historians and critics, the precursor and pioneer of many avant-garde movements that would develop in the second half of the 20th century: the so-called informal, gestural, tachist and lyrical movements, as well as action painting.
Antonio Seguí
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, famous for his paintings depicting crowds of men wearing suits and hats in urban landscapes reminiscent of his native country. Antonio Seguí is mainly interested in painting, drawing, lithography and sculpture, and his world is similar to that of comic books. Find out more about the artist on his website: http://www.antonio-segui.com/
Fernard Léger
Fernand Léger, born on 4 February 1881 in Argentan (Orne) and died on 17 August 1955 in Gif-sur-Yvette (Essonne), was a French painter, creator of tapestry cartoons and stained glass windows, decorator, ceramist, sculptor, draughtsman and illustrator. He was one of the first to publicly exhibit cubist-inspired works, although his style has sometimes been described as ‘tubist’.
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 differs from the more figurative expressions of other graffiti artists, giving rise to abstract works influenced by the movement, colour and energy of the city. Find the artist on his website: https://jonone.com/
Moïse Kisling
Moïse Kisling, born in 1891 in Krakow (Poland) and died in 1953 in Sanary-sur-Mer (Var), was a French painter of Polish origin, associated with the School of Paris. Far from allowing himself to be confined by any dogma, Kisling drew his inspiration from a wide range of artistic influences: Derain, Modigliani, even Matisse, Renoir and Ingres. However, this variety of influences was concentrated in a ‘new expressive will’ unique to Kisling.
Claude Venard
Claude Venard, born in Paris in 1913 and died in Sanary-sur-Mer in 1999, was a French painter belonging to the post-Cubist movement. Remaining faithful to a post-Cubist composition of his pictorial space, he gradually accentuated the chromaticism of his palette to the most vivid tones. Applying paint with a knife, his canvases became more textured, his forms more geometric, and his colours more vivid. His works are exhibited at the Tate Gallery in London, the Whitney Museum in New York, and the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, among others.
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.
Find the artist on the sitee : https://andre-lhote.org/vie-et-oeuvre
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
Ljuba
Ljuba Popovic, known as Ljuba, born in 1934 in Tuzla (former Yugoslavia) and died in Belgrade (Serbia) in 2016, was a painter, draughtsman and engraver of Serbian origin. After studying in Belgrade at the Academy of Decorative Arts and 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 surrealist. Source: http://www.ljuba.fr/
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”.
Find the artist on his website: https://www.tobiasse.fr/
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.
Find the artist on his website: https://georges-mathieu.fr
Jean Lambert-Rucki
Born in Krakow (Poland) in 1888 and died in Paris in 1967, Jean Lambert-Rucki was a painter and sculptor of Polish origin who became a naturalized French citizen after World War I. In 1909, he discovered Cubism at an exhibition of Picasso's works. In 1911, he moved to Paris, where he met his compatriot Moïse Kisling and shared a room with Modigliani, who was close friends with Soutine, whose studio was located at La Ruche, where Marc Chagall, Blaise Cendrars, Gustave Miklos, and Fernand Léger also lived. Initially attracted to Cubism, he turned to Surrealism in the 1930s. Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lambert-Rucki
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
Find the artist on his website: http://wang.yancheng.free.fr
Peter Klasen
Peter Klasen, born in Lübeck in 1935, is a German painter, photographer, and sculptor who works on the theme of industry. He is one of the founders of New Figuration, also known as Narrative Figuration. Other artists associated with this movement include Valerio Adami, Erró, Jacques Monory, Bernard Rancillac, and Hervé Télémaque.Find out more about the artist on his website:
Jean Miotte
Jean Miotte, born in 1926 and died in 2016, was a contemporary French painter associated with lyrical abstraction.
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 moving to Nice in 1957, where he met the leading artists of the School of Nice: Ben, Gilli Alocco, Malaval... and the New Realists Arman and Raysse. From 1968 onwards, he devoted himself to Plexiglas sculptures (columns and discs, pyramids) and then to so-called variable geometry sculptures, a direction in which he developed his work with monumental pieces. His last monumental sculpture, SECRET POINT, made of Corten steel, is installed in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Farhi