Michel Testard
Figurative artist, inspired by twenty years lived in India
I work between the Val du Loir, Paris and India where I had been living for twenty years and from which I draw most of my inspiration. Venerable ruins, mysterious interiors, prolific jungle, shimmering colors and above all the people of India, so diverse and full of humanity.
My work comes from wandering travels throughout twenty states of India, by train, car and motorcycle. I used to make quick sketches or took photos of the scenes, events which stroke me and I transformed them into paintings when back in my studio.
Originally a business consultant, I am essentially self taught in painting but also trained by the Ateliers de la Ville de Paris. I started to show my work in India, then moved back to France. Critics see my work as non conceptual but imaginative, spontaneous and somewhat eclectic. I do draw some inspiration from Masters like Manet, Matisse, Valloton or Gauguin.
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Biographie
I work between the Val du Loir, Paris and India where I had been living for twenty years and from which I draw most of my inspiration. Venerable ruins, mysterious interiors, prolific jungle, shimmering colors and above all the people of India, so diverse and full of humanity.
My work comes from wandering travels throughout twenty states of India, by train, car and motorcycle. I used to make quick sketches or took photos of the scenes, events which stroke me and I transformed them into paintings when back in my studio.
Originally a business consultant, I am essentially self taught in painting but also trained by the Ateliers de la Ville de Paris. I started to show my work in India, then moved back to France. Critics see my work as non conceptual but imaginative, spontaneous and somewhat eclectic. I do draw some inspiration from Masters like Manet, Matisse, Valloton or Gauguin.
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Nationalité:
FRANCE
- Date de naissance : 1950
- Domaines artistiques:
- Groupes: Artistes Contemporains Français

Influences
Formation
2018 - 2019
Atelier des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris - Glacière 13 ème Paris
Paris,
Ile de France,
France
1999 - 2018
Voyageur, photographe et peintre autodidacte en Inde
New-Delhi,
Delhi State,
Inde
1979 - 1979
MBA INSEAD
Fontainebleau,
Seine et Marne,
France
1971 - 1974
Ingénieur Civil des Ponts et Chaussées
Paris,
Ile de France,
France
Cote de l'artiste certifiée
Pas encore de données disponibles
Accomplissements
Expositions collectives
2022
Parcours Ateliers En Val Du Loir
La Chartre sur le Loir,
Sarthe,
France
2022
Exposition Collective Le Souffle - Galerie Michael Lonsdale 75007
Paris,
ile de france,
France
2021
Expo Collective Galerie Z&Amp;O
La Chartre sur le Loir,
Sarthe,
France
Expositions solo
2023
Glimpses Of India Ii
Bikaner,
Rajasthan,
Inde
2022
Chroniques Indiennes
Montval sur Loir,
Sarthe,
France
2022
Chroniques Indiennes
Eus,
Pyrénées Orientales,
France
2021
Exposition Michel Testard, Galerie Aubert De Rycke
Marçon,
Sarthe,
France
2020
Reminiscence Of India - Art Indus Gallery
New Delhi,
Delhi State,
Inde
2018
Ephemerides Indiennes Galerie Lord Byron
Paris,
Ile de France,
France
2018
Glimpses Of India I - At Bikaner House
New-Delhi,
Delhi State,
Inde
2017
Pérégrinations Indiennes
Paris,
ile de France,
France
Activité sur Artmajeur
Dernière mise à jour: 13 mai 2023
(Membre depuis 2023)
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Oeuvres de Michel Testard ajoutées aux collections favorites: 14
Dernières Nouvelles
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Ajouté le 20 mars 2023
Exhibition 'Glimpses of India II' in Bikaner - India
Rampuria Havelli, Joshiwara, Mohalla, Bikaner, Rajasthan, Inde
samedi
25
mars
2023
vendredi
31
mars
2023
This Exhibition comes almost three years after Michel Testard’s last showing in India at Art Indus, Delhi in Feb 2020, and five years after his first show in India at Bikaner House, Delhi in May 2018.
Bhanwar Niwas Rampuria Haveli is proud to present this new show- ‘GLIMPSES OF INDIA II –which builds upon and expands on Michel Testard’s lasting fascination for India. As an artist, a writer, a traveler and a sitar player, Michel has taken to the Indian tradition of narrating his diverse experience as anecdotes, giving to an Indian audience a friendly view of their own country that they may not see that way, and to foreign travelers visions of India that go well beyond the tourist cliché. His paintings mix nostalgia, admiration, fantasy with touches of humor.
Rampuria Haveli
https://www.instagram.com/p/CoRmIAZpoIH/
Avis et commentaires
Un clin d'oeil dans vos créations ! Merveilleuse Inde que vous rendez si bien. Je suis fan. Merci

©2020 Michel Testard
Thank you ! Yours are very nice too!