Ici commence le ciel (2023) Painting by Jean-Louis Crudenaire

Jean-Louis Crudenaire, born in 1970, lives and works in France, where he explores a diverse range of artistic mediums, including digital art, charcoal on paper, gouache on paper, and ink on paper. Influenced by masters such as Soulages, Da Vinci, Courbet, Turner, and the Chauvet Cave paintings, he developed a complex artistic style that blends abstract, minimalism, impressionism, and geometric art, while focusing particularly on the representation of the human form.

Coming from a lineage of miners from Northern France, Crudenaire uses coal, once a symbol of progress for humanity and now associated with environmental regression, as a means to explore the transformation of natural elements and their impact on our perception of the world. Since 2018, he has continued to develop a series of works centered on clouds, a subject he began exploring in 2003 through video art, then digital art, and finally drawing. His use of coal creates a visual fluidity where clouds seek and transform themselves, oscillating between realism and abstract expressionism.

Over time, his work has expanded from large canvases to even larger formats, including ephemeral land art interventions on supports such as rock frescoes and water tanks. These works, left to the elements, recall the ephemeral nature of matter and the way in which coal, once raw, returns to the earth with the interaction of time and climatic conditions.

Jean-Louis Crudenaire, registered with ADAGP, thus pursues artistic research which questions the place of man in a changing world, combining tradition and innovation in a constant dialogue with nature and matter.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists