Gerard Frances
Gerard Frances Statement
Gerard Frances was born in 1955 in France .
He presently lives and works in Paris .
Education : Fine Arts .
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 amère -
Le yuntai shan de gu kaizhi : les premières peintures de paysage en chine -
The spirit of the brush
A painting is often represented by its intelligence an its sensitivity -
I feel it very important for an artist to participate in events as it allows him
to share his artistic ideas , express himself and to meet a world of people with an equal passion for art -
Art is the expression of all cultures .
Photography / Research :
Saturation
Shadowy Figure
Variations / Nature
La photographie est en rapport avec l'ombre, à la fois de façon littérale en impliquant la lumière, mais aussi dans la métaphore de la disparition et de la trace. ( Shadowy figure )