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"Portrait by Jean Paul Proix 1962
Oil on canvas, signed and dated on the front, left side.
The artist's non-figurative period.
Extract from his personal website:
"I belong to a generation whose beacons were Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Klee and Fernand Léger, whose pupil I was.
A generation concerned above all with form, writing and the sign, and relatively little with the subject. It seemed to us that the role of witness to our times was reserved for photography. And for this reason, from 1956 onwards, I gradually moved towards "non-figurative" art, with preoccupations
Cobra group, until 1969.
However, as the absence of reference to reality sometimes led to aestheticism, I felt I was often doing the same painting over and over again, and wanted something different. As a reaction, I opted for hyperrealism for quite a long time (a period punctuated, however, by a few bouts of abstraction).
and since 2004, I've felt the need to move towards another form of expression, where the unconscious, gesture and color free themselves from objective representation, my approach becomes more playful and surprises almost daily."
Painter Jean Paul Proix was born in Chamalières.
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ConditionExcellentColorsMulti ColorMaterialCanvasNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeMediumHeight66 cmWidth50 cm