Mutel jack

Jack Mutel , painter of the school Norman.

Born on August 7th, 1935 with Bretteville-on-Odon (apple-brandy), Jack Mutel is formed at the school of the Art schools of Caen of 1948 to 1952, in the workshop of a solid post-impressionist painter, Louis-Edouard Garrido (1893-1982).

While teaching the visual arts as professor of the colleges in Caen since 1964 (Saint-Joseph college…), the painter Low Norman carries out a pictorial, punctuated long career the many ones and regular exposures in Normandy (present at the living room of the artists Low Normans (Caen) since 1952, retrospective with the Museum Baron Gerard (Bayeux) in 1979, exposures to the Hotel of Escoville, retrospective to the Town hall of Caen in 2002, etc…), but also with London and Paris (gallery Ror Volmar,…). Thus, it is honoured with the Grand Prix of the artists Low Normans in 1957 and 1971, of the Price of the town of Falaise as that of the town of Torigny-on-Transfers.

The figurative style of the acrylic resins and oils of the Master of Holy-Honorine-of-Fay the, man discrete with the affirmed certainty, is not without sometimes evoking the ardor of a Soutine or the sensitivity of a Van Gogh. Vibrating key, generous and voluptuous matter, solid construction, taste for the light, daring color, dynamism of the rates/rhythms, all contributes to make these paintings a beautiful mature work.

If it approaches the figure, as well the sailors as the eternal female, it is primarily in the landscape, even the still life, than opens out its pictorial design, based on the importance of the construction of space by the color and the value. On the basis of notes taken on the reason, the painter builds then his fabric in workshop, remembering the lesson of the Fauvisme and the Nabis, creating echoes coloured, attentive also to focus the light, to exacerbate it by counterpoints red.

If Mutel Jack, as an architect of sensitive, is before a whole eye for which the subject is only one pretext to frame the space of the fabric, it however transcribes its intimate vision of the world which surrounds it, a such continuator of Bonnard or Vuillard: scenes of fishermen, beaches of the Apple-brandy, villages of the Bessin, Honfleur, died natures, bouquets, orchestras of classical music… In addition, of the southernmost voyages allow him to enrich the repertory by its reasons: Spain, Italy, Venice…

Its fabrics are present in many private collections, both in Europe and in Australia and with the U.S.A, even if as a man savagely independent he a long time refused to integrate the system of the galleries.

It had as a pupil the bedeist Jean-François Miniac.

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