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Céret Art Gallery - Exhibitions - past and present
Vincent Bioulès
Maurice Loutreuil
Othon Friesz
Céret Art Gallery - Exhibitions - past and present
Vincent Bioulès
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Exhibition: Céret art gallery - 17th June - 1st October
Vincent Bioulès was born in 1938 in Montpellier, where he now lives and works.
He began his early painting career with traditional paintings of countryside based around a particular theme - an oak tree, light, the sky.......
From 1967 to 1982 he worked at the Aix School of Art. In the 1960s, his work became abstract following the fashion of the day, during which time he joined the geometrically abstract *Support, Surface movement which emerged in Nice in 1969.
However, during the 70s, he made a conscious decision to leave the abstract behind, as he gradually returned to figurative art. Since 1976, he has systematically tackled all the major themes of painting: landscapes, interiors, portraits and nudes.
He rounded up his teaching career at the Paris Beaux-Arts academy in October 1999, and has exhibited in New York, Zurich and Paris (Templon, then Vidal Saint Phalle since 1992).
La terrasse à la villa Bianco
His exhibition at the Céret Musée d’Art features around 80 selected works from 1966 to present day, including paintings conceived during a stay in Céret, and mirrors his reflection on scenery, space and the themes that have occupied him as an artist during his life.
* Support/ Surface or BRMT (an acronym of their founders) existed from 1967-1974 and was a group of French artists who sought to "liberate abstract art’s practice from the tyranny of taste, the banality of Expressionism, the sentimentality of late Surrealism and the purity of Art Concrete."
Maurice Loutreuil
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Exhibition: Céret art gallery - October 21st 2006 - February 18th, 2007
Born in 1885 (died 1925) in Montmirail in the Sarthe, Maurice Loutreuil studied art with Jules Hervé-Mathé at Le Mans before heading off for Paris in 1910 where he was a regular on the Montmartre-Montparnasse artist scene, living from the drawing of caricatures for newspapers Le Charivari, l’Assiette au beurre, Pêle-Mêle, Sourire, Indiscret.... He was also a great ballet fan, fascinated in particular by Isadora Duncan, and several of his works featured the dancer.
He continued his training with Jacques-Ferdinand Humbert and Gabriel Ferrier, and, thanks to a study grant, was able to study in Italy in spring 1914, a stay that was cut short by the onset of the First World War. Revolted by war, and in order to avoid national service, Loutreuil travelled extensively around North Africa. He was captured and imprisoned for desertion but released when a doctor certified him "Folie raisonnante" - a little insane!
He returned regularly to Paris where he exhibited in the Salon d’Automne, and the Salon des Tuilerie.
Insoumis
Self portrait
In 1919, he stayed in Céret with André Masson.
In 1923, he returned home to the Sarthe where he painted a portrait of his father, and many more of the surrounding countryside, markets, local and local colour, and still life.
Othon Friesz
vue de Collioure
Exhibition: Céret art gallery - Until 30th September 2007
Othon Friesz (6th February 1879 - 10th January 1949), a native of Le Havre, was a French artist of the Fauvist movement. Encouraged at an early age by his parents to become a painter, he soon began training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre, where he worked at Charles-Marie Lhullier’s workshop. It was there that he met with Raoul Dufy and George Braque, with whom he developed a lasting friendship and later became travelling companions. Together with Matisse, they rebelled against the academic teaching of Bonnat, their professor in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and turned to the Fauvist movement of painting, an expressionist style, characterized by bold distortion of forms and exuberant colour. Friesz painted numerous views of the harbor and beaches around Marseilles and La Ciotat. Around 1908, Friesz’s work changed and became less explosive, a return to the more sober palette he had learned in Le Havre from his professor Charles Lhuillier, and to an early admiration for Poussin, Chardin, and Corot.
One of his particularly outstanding late works was the decoration for the Palais de Chaillot which he did with Raoul Dufy on the occasion of the world fair in Paris in 1937.
Raoul Dufy described Friesz as ‘the most gifted painter of our generation’ in 1934. Sadly for him, although he received much honour by the end of his life, he never attained the same status as some of his famous colleagues.
Othon Friesz is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
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