Rene Genis

Rene Genis is a painter French born the January 26th 1922 with Hué with the Vietnam and deceased the February 25th 2004 with Saint-Claude in the the Jura with the 82 years age.

Of return of Indo-China in metropolis in 1931, its family settles initially in the Gironde, with Blaye then Arcachon, and finally in 1937 in Paris.

Registered at the School of the Applied arts, it takes refuge in 1940 with its family with Bordeaux where it attends the school of Beautiful arts. Of return to Paris, it enters to the National school of Decorative Arts where it finds André Brasilier, Bernard Cathelin, Paul Guiramand and Guy Bardone. Its professors are Jules Cavaillès, Desnoyer then Maurice Brianchon.

It obtains in 1950 the first diploma of decorative painting (promotion Albert Marquet) in the Workshop of Marcel Gromaire (1892-1961). It second some time Jean Lurçat in the realization of its paperboards. As of this time, Rene Genis presents his fabrics to the Living room of the Young Painting and it receives the price in 1960 from them.

During forty years, it exposed regularly to the Salon Comparisons in the group of Maurice Boitel.

Member of the Living room of Fall, it acquires soon an international repute and its fabrics are exposed in galleries of New York, Tokyo, Essen, Lausanne, Geneva, Taipei, and many museums, French like foreigners, have its works today: in France one can see his tables in particular in the museums of the Town of Paris, of Bordeaux, of Lyon, of Aix-en-Provence, of Besancon, of Beam-of-Provence. Abroad, one finds them with Djakarta (Indonesia), Oran (Algeria), Neuchâtel (Swiss), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tokyo (Yamagata museum). It belongs to the school of poetic reality with Christian Caillard, Jules Cavaillès, Raymond Legueult, Roger Limouse, Roland Oudot, André Planson, etc, and post-impressionist the Suisse painter Andry admits being influenced by him.

Specialist in the still life and the landscape, his art indicates an ease and a rigor of the drawing, being based on the talent of the colourist who affirms himself with delicacy and elegance. The density of contrasts is been useful by a certain simplification of the forms and a setting in flat tint of the pure colors where the light bursts ( Lumière of the evening, Serifos, Greece or the cat in the lane, Serifos, Greece ). This apparent simplicity does not go without a research which is revealed in particular in the dead natures brightened by tapestries, mosaics or ceramics ( the jug marbled - 1973, the bowls - 2000), the representations floral ( Ombelles with the Chinese vase - 2000 or Bouquet and shells - 1990) or a simple wall in a landscape ( Lumière of the evening, Bandol, Provence ).

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