Jules Flour

Jules Flour (1864 in Avignon - 1921) is a Master of Provence of painting which was professor at the school of the Art schools of Avignon, and member of the Groupe of the Thirteen.

Biography

Its beginnings

Wire of a modest founder inhabitant of Avignon, Jules Adrien FLOUR was born on August 6th, 1864 in a medium which did not predispose it with painting. Early however, it expressed for this art a true vocation which his/her parents extremely intelligently did not oppose. Teenager, it worked like apprentice painter and glass maker in a manufacturer of stained glasses, and attended the workshop of Charles Guilbert d' Anelle . It is at the council school of the Art schools of Avignon, that Gabriel Bourges , its professor of drawing, sharpened his direction of the traditional line, and Pierre Grivolas sensitized it with the pictorial translation of the phenomena of light.

The Parisian Period (1883-1906)

In 1883, his/her parents imposérent themselves of large sacrifices to allow him to follow to Paris the courses of Jean-Leon Gérôme. The cordial recommendations of this last were worth to him to obtain the financial support of the General advice of Vaucluse and the town of Avignon. In 1887, it began truly its career from painter to the Living room of the French Artists with a portrait. The perfection of its drawing, its ability has to seize the psychological truth of its models, were worth many successes in the capital to him. The meetings which it made during this period were very invaluable for the continuation of its career (its Master Jean-Leon Gérôme , the director of the Art schools Henry Roujon, the merchant of tables Paul Durand-Ruel). In 1890, Jules Flour is regarded by his Gérome Master as " a very good élève" and " a pupil well doué". From 1899, Flour shares its life between the capital and the Vaucluse. It frequently exposes its fabrics at the time of regional living rooms (Beziers in 1892, Montpellier in 1896) and more particularly in its birthplace, in particular during the exposures of the Company vauclusienne of the Friends of Arts.

The Return in Avignon (1906-1912)

In 1906, it integrates the school of the Art schools of Avignon, where one entrusts to him the teaching of the drawing according to the relief, and of the painting of the pupils of first year. In 1908, the excellence of its teaching is worth an addition of responsibility to him, to finish as from 1913, to deal with the pupils of the higher course.

The Group of the Thirteen (1912-1926)

In 1912, eleven painters and two sculptors, the fine flower of the school Inhabitant of Avignon, decide to leave the Company vauclusienne Friends of Arts, then directed by Mr. Charles Formentin, because they dispute its decision to only hold the exposures to the " landscape designers vauclusiens". They are the painters Belladen, Bergier, Bill, Brun, Colombier, Firmin, Flour, Hurard, Lesbros, Meissonier, Montagne and the sculptors Gras and Deprez. They will be soon known under the name of the Groupe of the Thirteen

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