Jacques Clauzel

Jacques Clauzel is a painter French born with Nimes the May 4th 1941.

He studied the Peinture in the schools of the Beautiful arts of Tourcoing, Montpellier and Paris (workshop Chastel). He was Grand logist with the Prix of Rome in 1964 and Diplômé National of painting.

Its work (dry points, aquatintes, paintings, engravings, photographs) is characterized by a very purified style. The main theme of its work is silence.

Of 1965 with 1973, he was initially decorator on television of the Ivory Coast, then teacher of Painting at the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of Beautiful arts of Abidjan (Ivory Coast). It carried out many illustrated reports on the Africa (Mali, Burkina-Faso, Niger, Ghana, Togo, Dahomey).

Of 1965 with 1968, it worked on wallpapers, cut out and recomposed. Starting from 1968 it devotes to the Photographie report. It collects the negro Art, which will bring a decisive opening to him on the Peinture.

In 1973, it returns in France and creates a workshop of industrial photography. It is recruited by the School of Beautiful arts of Montpellier, in 1975, to found the workshop of photography there.

In 1976, it returns to the Peinture by the means of automatic drawings. It is one period of research (ruffled papers, then torn and stuck, large strengthened papers.) who leads it to work on kraft paper.

Starting from 1985 the essential topics which determine its work are identified and present in the whole of work. At the same time as painting, Jacques Clauzel practices other techniques: Engraving, Lithography, Serigraphy and Photography.

Jacques Clauzel also collaborated with the poets Andrée Chedid, Pierre Dhainaut, Bernard Christmas or Michel Butor.

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