Liquid settlement (1992) Painting by Christian Girault

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  • Original Artwork Painting, Acrylic
  • Dimensions Height 106.3in, Width 393.7in
  • Categories Figurative
C'est l’œuvre la plus grande que j'ai réalisé à ce jour : une fresque commandée par un club de plongée à Genève. C'est peint à l'acrylique, mais au vu de la surface, on m'avait proposé de la faire avec de la peinture pour bâtiment. Je fus d'ailleurs aidé par un peintre en bâtiment pour la réalisation du fond (pour gagner[...]
C'est l’œuvre la plus grande que j'ai réalisé à ce jour : une fresque commandée par un club de plongée à Genève. C'est peint à l'acrylique, mais au vu de la surface, on m'avait proposé de la faire avec de la peinture pour bâtiment. Je fus d'ailleurs aidé par un peintre en bâtiment pour la réalisation du fond (pour gagner du temps); il ne pouvait m'être utile que sur des opérations "simples".
Nous avions choisi (le président du club et moi) de placer les gros poissons gris dans la longueur du mur et les plus petits et colorés derrière le bar. La porte était objet de controverse entre le président et moi :
- Non, je ne veux pas qu'on la peigne, on tape toujours dedans avec les bouteilles.
Un soir que je travaillais à l’œuvre, et que tout le monde avait quitté le club, j'ai finalement peint la porte avec une méduse dessus. Le lendemain, je rencontre le président qui me dit :
- Au fait Christian, je ne t'ai pas dit, c'est super la porte !
Plus de vingt ans après, je ne sais pas si elle orne toujours les murs du club...

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- For those who wish to discover oil painting, I open a workshop during the lunch break, once a week, on the sidelines of school lessons. When a drawing teacher makes such a proposal and you are already[...]

- For those who wish to discover oil painting, I open a workshop during the lunch break, once a week, on the sidelines of school lessons.

When a drawing teacher makes such a proposal and you are already motivated by the artistic thing, there is no hesitation. Christian responded to the opportunity and discovered the smoothness and reactivity of the material, its sensuality too: pleasure. This happened in 1974, at the age of fourteen. And quickly, gouache, pencil or pastels were practically forgotten.

A few years later, a solid technique had already asserted itself, through, most often, work inspired by photographic favorites. Christian will notably have the freedom to produce color paintings, from black and white photos.

His works still lacked a certain essence, that of conceptual elaboration, which will appear in the 1980s and will continue thereafter. This indefinable work, probably invisible, which allows an idea to mature for six months to progress, improve, or even vanish. Christian has an expression for this: 'cinema on canvas', because like the seventh art, he creates a real scenario of his work before using his brushes. There is no doubt that many of these ideas come from her passion for travel, such a passion that she stopped her production for a while. Prize-winning exhibitions have awarded Christian six times.

Christian is a multiple artist, in the sense that he is master of the freedom of his ideas; thus his subjects are diversity. If he is comfortable with his time, he does not lock himself in his fashions. And to extend the notion of multiplicity, he is also a photographer and writer-traveler. Open to the surprise of the future, he will gladly tell you that he is not yet... a sculptor.

"Art is an adventure; it continues, for a long time…"

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