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| profile: Jean Archambault - artistic painter | ||||||
| Professional Affiliation : TAC (The Arts Club) | ||||||
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| Website: www.artefieor.com | ||||||
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| Even if my first contact with Art was when my grand-mother, sitting on her bathroom marble- tiled floor, was asking me what shapes do I see in the pattern and she immediately traced what I was describing directly on the floor, it took me 30-some years to finally express myself through Art. I was never far from the Art world, having been a graphic artist for 22 years, freelancer and car- toonist here and there. For a very long time I refused to pick up the brush, thinking it too “thick and imprecise” contrary to the fine pencils and pens. I admit today that it was more my fear of marching unfamiliar grounds that was keeping me into what I could master and what was familiar. In 2006, I reached a point where I felt I needed to move on to a better way to express myself and mostly from the encouragements from my wife Jocelyne, I enrolled in my first painting lesson in the studio of Jubomir Ivankovic, teacher at Vieux-Montréal Cegep. A very interesting experience and an eye opener to a new and fascinating form of artistic expression. In 2008, this time under the guides of Richard Dorais, teacher of the Renaissance technique, I meet his art. A mix of artistic expression, technique and the knowledge of the authentic material, this discovery calls me to what I’ve long been looking for: the FINE Arts Very critical of what I call the decay of today’s art, I found, to my greatest pleasure, the strong- hold of a purist, working against the tide, teaching a technique coming from an age where Art was practiced through strict technique, philosophy and an artistic approach that, still today, mesmerizes the world. I am still learning the technique (I probably always will), I try to practice my art according to the rule of our forbearers: Rigor, mastery, esthetics, harmony and method. From these principles, I hope to be part of the re-establishment of the nobility of our Fine Art. |
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| BIOGRAPHY |
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| Training: Primarily self-taught, I nevertheless took an academic route: 1985 - 1987 Art Instruction School Applied arts 1992 Rosemont Cegep Artistic anatomy 2004 Private lessons Oil painting instr.: Jubomir Ivankovic 2008 - 2009 Private lessons Oil painting Renaissance technique (‘tradition optique”) instr.: Richard Dorais Exhibits : 2005 Group Exhibit on the theme of the Orchid Galerie Charmante, Sutton, Québec 2010 Exhibit/tribute evening Club Mount Stephen / The Arts Club of Montreal |
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