Gérard Gouvrant (1946 - ) - Le préféré ou les amoureux éconduits
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Gérard Gouvre was born in Paris in 1946. Even as a child, he reproduced the drawings from France-Soir. He only began to gravitate toward color as a teenager. At the time, he admired German expressionist painters. When he approaches his blank canvas, GOUVRANT Gérard seems to detach himself from the world around him. He is already contemplating, taking his palette and before the slightest touch, a finished work. In fact it is finished for him because it dominates all surrounding reality in his head. The background springs from the knife in lively and precise touches. A few flat areas then mark the different planes. And the symphony finally seems to explode from the brush, with such finesse that it seems impossible that it would have left traces on the canvas. Symphony because his wrist seems to be handling the "trainer" to the rhythm of a magical inner music which traces details of the painting, right where he had expected them, where he already saw them. Never a remorse; no hesitation. And everything fits together exactly. Already if it were not on all the canvases of Gérard Gouverture this nervous framework which only seems to outline the subject like a drawing thrown hastily, even regretfully on colored masses, one could not believe that all the works are by the same artist. Because Gérard Gouvert has no preference for a subject. He masters them all: landscapes, portraits, sea flowers, clowns, birds. . . Everything that passes before his eye seems immediately destined to be fixed for eternity on the canvas. He transcribes all the atmospheres effortlessly. Joyful lightness of a carnival, humor of the grotesque confrontation of a king and his fool, nostalgia for a land of snow. . . There is always something happening in the paintings of Gérard Gouvert, the pétanque players are often philosophers, Don Quixote sausages with Sancho Panza for a break and polytechnicians start dancing and clowns play politics. Gérard Guvrant paints men as he sees them and as we are. Neither black nor white, but both at the same time. Gérard Gouvre, expressionist painter, has participated in exhibitions in France (Lille, Deauville, Honfleur, Le Touquet, Paris, Saint-Etienne, etc.) , abroad at the Transoceana in Chicago, at the Hemisphere galleries in Hallandale, at the Studio Gallery in Washington in the United States, but also in Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo and Switzerland. He created a fresco at the IUT of Roubaix and at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.
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signed lower right.
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Gérard Gouvre was born in Paris in 1946. Even as a child, he reproduced the drawings from France-Soir. He only began to gravitate toward color as a teenager. At the time, he admired German expressionist painters. When he approaches his blank canvas, GOUVRANT Gérard seems to detach himself from the world around him. He is already contemplating, taking his palette and before the slightest touch, a finished work. In fact it is finished for him because it dominates all surrounding reality in his head. The background springs from the knife in lively and precise touches. A few flat areas then mark the different planes. And the symphony finally seems to explode from the brush, with such finesse that it seems impossible that it would have left traces on the canvas. Symphony because his wrist seems to be handling the "trainer" to the rhythm of a magical inner music which traces details of the painting, right where he had expected them, where he already saw them. Never a remorse; no hesitation. And everything fits together exactly. Already if it were not on all the canvases of Gérard Gouverture this nervous framework which only seems to outline the subject like a drawing thrown hastily, even regretfully on colored masses, one could not believe that all the works are by the same artist. Because Gérard Gouvert has no preference for a subject. He masters them all: landscapes, portraits, sea flowers, clowns, birds. . . Everything that passes before his eye seems immediately destined to be fixed for eternity on the canvas. He transcribes all the atmospheres effortlessly. Joyful lightness of a carnival, humor of the grotesque confrontation of a king and his fool, nostalgia for a land of snow. . . There is always something happening in the paintings of Gérard Gouvert, the pétanque players are often philosophers, Don Quixote sausages with Sancho Panza for a break and polytechnicians start dancing and clowns play politics. Gérard Guvrant paints men as he sees them and as we are. Neither black nor white, but both at the same time. Gérard Gouvre, expressionist painter, has participated in exhibitions in France (Lille, Deauville, Honfleur, Le Touquet, Paris, Saint-Etienne, etc.) , abroad at the Transoceana in Chicago, at the Hemisphere galleries in Hallandale, at the Studio Gallery in Washington in the United States, but also in Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo and Switzerland. He created a fresco at the IUT of Roubaix and at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.
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