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Charcoal
Huile 89 x 116 cm
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Jean Viennet from an old family of wine growers and artists has
two passions : wine and painting.
While he was a student in Paris Jean Viennet spent his afternoons
painting and drawing at the well known Grande Chaumière and
at Academy Julian. His teachers were Yves Brayer and the engraver
Friedlander, as well as Salvador Dali. No doubt, Jean Viennet would
take care of the family vineyards, but he would also paint.
Insolence, joyfulness, provocation, all these
words tempt to explain Jean Viennet's painting full of humanity,
humour and mischief. […] Ink drawings, nudes and strong colours
bring us toward a powerful, expressive and dary work. […].
Jean Viennet provokes but his art let come to light a happy character
which seems essential. Jean Viennet's painting is the discovery
of a powerful talent which evidently rises towards horizons even
more surprising.
Pastel
"The
painting remains the visible of my subconscience. It allows the
spectator, as in all Art, to let his obscure thoughts emerge.
If I would tempt to classify my work, I would say : figurative,
astonishing, lightly crazy and colourful, provoking may be, but
isn't it the proper of a painter ! "
Text from the Midi Libre
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Jean Viennet's
Biography
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1966-68 Jullian
Academy in Paris |
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1967-69 Engraving
with Friedland, impasse cœur de vey, Paris |
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1968-69 Painting
courses with Yves Brayer, Grande Chaumière,
Paris |
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1969 Drawing courses
with Salvador Dali, Hotel Meurice, Paris |
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1967-69 Salon des
Surindépendants, Paris |
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1969 Several exhibitions
in Paris : Salon des indépendants, Galerie
Christian de Bertier |
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1972 Exhibitions
in Paris : Galerie de la Salamandre, Salon des Indépendants |
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1973 Restructuring
of the vineyards of Château de Raissac |
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1975 End of Jean
Viennet's first period in painting as he concentrate
all his time on the vineyards |
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1988 Creation of
the " Club des Grands Vins de Châteaux
du Languedoc ". |
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1993 Jean Viennet
takes up painting again at Elyette Peyre 's assiduous
advice |
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1994 Exhibition
Galerie Mercure in Béziers |
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1994 Exhibitions
in Béziers :Galerie Mercure, Espace Riquet
(where Cocteau exhibition took place) |
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1996 Exhibition
Galerie Mercure in Béziers |
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1998 Exhibition
Galerie Elyette Peyre, Rue Visconti, Paris |
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2001 Exhibition
of draws, Genève |
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2001 Exhibition
on the thema of flowers, château de Vullierens,
Lausanne |
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2002 Exhibitions
in Paris and Bruxelles. |
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2003 & 2004
Domaine des Arts, Languedoc. |
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2005 "Birth
of Mermaids", Château de Raissac. |
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Aquarelle 40 x 30 cm
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