In the 21st century, a pictorial practice must be diverse...Abstraction, figuration, concept, performance, nothing must escape the artist's senses...A joyous (or not) mess...The history will recognize its own...
Rebel horse 0040 ©Philippe Alliet
How do you become a painter? For me, it started around the age of 11-12 with the desire to reproduce comic book characters: Mickey, Asterix...etc...Personal technical learning followed which allowed progress in faithful representation, exact...When moving on much later to abstraction or even conceptual art, it's common to abandon that skill....I didn't; figuration is not an absence of choice but on the contrary a deliberate desire to cultivate other forms, to explore other spaces...

How I become a painter? For me, it started around the age of 11-12 years with the desire to reproduce comic book characters: Mickey, Asterix ... etc ... Personal technical learning followed which allowed to progress in faithful representation... When I move much later to abstraction or even conceptual art, it would be common to abandon this know-how .... I don't. For me figuration is not an absence of choice but on the contrary a deliberate desire to cultivate other forms, to explore other spaces ...

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