Frances Gérard was born in 1955 in France .
Site France / http://www.ori-gerard.com/
He presently lives and works in Paris and Languedoc .
His painting research is essentially based on the various expressive alternatives
Of china ink using a very personal technique .
Altough taking his inspiration mainly from reality ( landscapes , figures , objects )
Frances gérard do nor limit to it , reducing to the essential the naturalistic and descriptive
Aspects ,with a tendency to abstract .
( sky - land . horizontal - vertical . primary colors - geometrical work -
external reality an interieur world . )
Personal technique and artist concept
My tool is the chinese brush and my canvas is the paper .
Three fluids - mixing - on the brush -
Oil - ink - water -
Ink and water : fusion
Oil and ink : opposition
Water : mediation
My works took a direction that resulted in artwork toward a new language -
My work express painting the freedom to do art and the own art -
The masters gave me impulse , influenced my work by the grandiosity of
Their immortal art .
Reference - on the traces for ancient cultures
Calligraphy - chinese painting - miniature art -
Dialogue : orient - occident -
Texts and theory on painting -
Shitao : les propos sur la peinture du moine citrouille amere -
Le yuntai shan de ...
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Le Pli, 2012
Other Photograph
650 x 500 x 3 mm
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