Painting titled "AUREL (Lavandes en…" by Jean-Paul Schmitt, Original Artwork, Oil Mounted on Wood Stretcher frame

AUREL (Lavandes en juin) (2017) Painting by Jean-Paul Schmitt

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil on Canvas

Artworks classification

One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 21.7in, Width 18.1in
Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Paintings under $500 Fauvism Nature

Dans la série des ciels rouges, le peintre interprète un champ de lavandes face à Aurel, un très beau village de Provence bâti sur un éperon rocheux.

L'artiste, comme souvent, écrit en rebond sur sa création le poème suivant :
"Courir le Ventoux quand les collines bleuissent et que les chariots chantent. Courir sur le plateau où des géants plantent des lueurs improbables et parfumées. Courir de l’ombre au feu en criant de joie. Courir sur le dos coloré du monde en attendant la mort. Courir joyeux et pleurer. Courir les doigts ensanglantés de vermillon, l’âme en lambeaux accrochée au lin et fendue par le couteau. Courir quand les mains se nouent. Courir la vie qui se moque et qui rit encore.
Courir et se poser près des lavandes.
Quand le temps laboure les visages des enfants enfuis, courir. Immobile dans le vent qui lave Aurel et mes souvenirs."

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Oil

Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger.

Fauvism

Born in 1905 in Paris, this movement bring together many artists who shared a radical practice of color. The painting by Henri Matisse (1869-1954), The woman with the hat, noticed at the autumn salon is one of the outstanding works of this movement. Artists like Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), Raoul Dufy (1877-1947) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) mark this movement.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Related themes

Aurel Provence Lavandes

Jean-Paul Schmitt

France

Jean-Paul Schmitt is a contemporary award-winning French artist. Watercolors, inks, pencils, and acrylics are used to create a preliminary study in Schmitt's artistic process.[...]

Jean-Paul Schmitt is a contemporary award-winning French artist. Watercolors, inks, pencils, and acrylics are used to create a preliminary study in Schmitt's artistic process. He switches to the thick oil paste on canvas, once the dynamics of color have been established.

He participated in numerous personal and group exhibitions in France and abroad and is permanently present in galleries in Lyon. His works have been awarded many times: Special prize of the Rhône County Council in 2014; Boesner prize in 2014; International Art Award of Beijing in 2016; Gold medal of the jury and grand prize of the salon de Rive de Gier in 2017; Special prize of the Jury of the Winter Show of Lyon 2018; Great Trophy of the Arts Artists of Honor of the Year 2018 from the Editions of Museums and Culture; 2019 Silver Medal of the French Association of Arts, Sciences and Letters.

Jean-Paul Schmitt was born in 1947, in France. He is a member of the Lyons Academy of Painting (ALP), the Regional Association of Arts (ARA) and the Group of Twelve.