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Denis Prieur is a painter born in Moret-sur-Loing, France, 1957, where he lived in a particularly painting oriented atmosphere. His grandfather Louis Prieur, was a painter. His father, Claude Prieur, a fresco painter, is still active working on French historic monuments.
Aged 16, Denis Prieur enters the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts de Paris, integrating Pierre Carron and Pierre Faure's workshop. Aged 20, he exposes his work for the first time at la maison des Beaux-arts and meets with Albert Loeb, who will himself expose several of his paintings at his renowned Parisian gallery. The following year, Jean Clair, curator at Centre Georges Pompidou, visits his workshop and buys one of his paintings for the museum's collections.
Several times exhibited at the Maison des Beaux-arts (1978, 1991), he participates in the Salon de Monaco in 1996 and 1997, and was privileged with an exhibit at the Hôtel de Ville de Paris in 1995. Working with a resolutely classical approach, he declares: "I studied in a workshop where one was taught realism. Only one thing was missing for this school to be real and that was mystery. Indeed mystery does punctuate a man's life and provides it with meaning. I want to celebrate these mysteries in my paintings... For a long time I have been trying to represent the torsion of light on a body or in the ambiance of a painting..."
Jean-Paul Riopelle, was a Canadian painter and sculptor from Quebec. He had one of the longest and most important international careers of the sixteen signatories of the Refus Global, the 1948 manifesto that announced the Quebecois artistic community's refusal of clericalism and provincialism. He is best known for his abstract painting style, in particular his "mosaic" works of the 1950s when he famously abandoned the paintbrush, using only a palette knife to apply paint to canvas, giving his works a distinctive sculptural quality. He became the first Canadian painter since James Wilson Morrice to attain widespread international recognition.
The Salon d'Automne, or Société du Salon d'automne, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris, France. Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The first Salon d'Automne was created in 1903 by Frantz Jourdain, with Hector Guimard, George Desvallières, Eugène Carrière, Félix Vallotton, Édouard Vuillard, Eugène Chigot and Maison Jansen.
Léon Cogniet was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students.
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Maurice Boitel was a French painter.
Richard Guino was a French sculptor of Catalan origin.
Jean-Marc Bustamante is a French artist, painter, sculptor and photographer. He is a noted conceptual and installation artist and has incorporated ornamental design and architectural space in his works.
Jean Prouvé was a French metal worker, self-taught architect and designer. Le Corbusier designated Prouvé a constructeur, blending architecture and engineering. Prouvé's main achievement was transferring manufacturing technology from industry to architecture, without losing aesthetic qualities. His design skills were not limited to one discipline. During his career Jean Prouvé was involved in architectural design, industrial design, structural design and furniture design.
André Elbaz is a famous Moroccan painter and filmmaker.
Claude Viallat is a French contemporary painter.
Aimé Nicolas Morot was a French painter and sculptor in the Academic Art style.
François-Guillaume Ménageot (1744–1816) was a French painter of religious and French historical scenes. A pupil of François Boucher (1703–1770), he went on to win the Grand Prix de Rome and become a director of the French Academy in Rome, an academician and a member of the Institute.
Georges Dufrénoy was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism.
Albert Bitran was a French painter, engraver and sculptor.
Henry d'Estienne was a French painter and a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Jacques Hérold was a prominent surrealist painter born in Piatra Neamț, Romania.
Vera Pagava was a Georgian artist based in Paris.
Jean-Pierre Laurens was a French painter; primarily of figures and portraits.
Jean Degottex was a French abstract painter, known in particular for his initial proximity with the lyrical abstraction movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He is considered an important artist of the abstraction movement in the second half of the twentieth century and a significant inspiration for contemporary art. Degottex was particularly inspired by East Asian calligraphy and Zen philosophy in achieving the erasure of the creative subject.
Constantin Georges Macris was a French painter of Greek origin.