Raoul GAILLARD
Frankreich (France)
http://www.raoulgaillard.org
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Gouache
Stil: Realismus
Vita / Lebenslauf:
PREFACE
Raoul Gaillard writes stories, about the sea, about adventures, about storms which made us dream when we were children and for which we will forever thank Walter Scott, Jack London, Blaise Cendrars and so many others.
Grown-ups, we find the again the ghosts of these maritime legends: smoky pubs, cargo boats still in harbours or struggling in the waves, called up subtle sceneries where our dreams almost forgotten come out again through the music and poetry arising from each picture.
The painter works on paper, on which he spends long hours using pencils, tempera or watercolour from which appear moulds, spots and yellowed and hardened movingly photos of sailors of all ages and all times.
Time, actually is important : Raoul Gaillard makes himself humble in front of the enormous task . Slowly, magic operates, each sea lover can, through these beautiful and sometimes darks stories painted by the artist, rediscover his childhood’s wonders of his childhood.
Let us be taken away by magic
Helene Bellorget
What is the sea ?
This is a fisherman’s house, sheltered in a small valley, which coatches the ocean. Two wrack boats leaving the round belly of their hull along the ebb tide...
Women, with their skirts fixed at their belt, in water up to the waist, unloading the fish from a boat, just ran aground on the beach, to be the first ones at the market.
A whole family, mine ? Yours ? feet in water, looking at a peaceful horizon. Is it really peaceful ?
A liner, in a squall, leaves for an vague destination... The huge stern of cargo boat balancing between the sensuousness of its curves and the rust which will soon be part of its destiny.
The sea is everywhere in Gaillard’s work. It is, even unseen, the common tread of all paintings.
Warning to sailors : be careful of these suspended moments, of these incomplete stories ! behind the anecdote and the great formal beauty of these maritime sceneries, Raoul catches all the emotions of a past sometime very close returned to us without noise but without limits.
Don’t look at its pictures, each one is a wave which takes you and sweeps you away !
Emmanuel Davril
THE GLANCE OF THE PAINTER ON HIS WORK
To speak about its painting is always a delicate exercise for a painter. If it is necessary, it is because the work is not explicit. Any speech consequently becomes useless.
I thus prefer to evoke my pictorial reasoning which proposes the elements of a history, generally imaginary, which leave the way open so that each one grafts his own history there.
The topic is maritime, I know this world since childhood and I accept to be described of "nostalgic" : The maritime life and world of today do not make me any more dream. But nostalgia is not my principal concern which remains before all the achievement of an picture.
The workmanship is classic but, by the composition and the graphic expression, I endeavour to give a current picture.
I use paper, support which is appropriate for my mode of expression and is well adapted to the subjects that I cover. On this support, I work with simple means : watercolours and pencils. Simplicity of means does not want to say poverty of means. I consider that an idea carried out with simple means must be expressed with more force.
The extracts of poems which often accompany my exhibitions show the importance that I attach to the literature and in particular to the poetry.
Raoul Gaillard
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
BIOGRAPHY
Raoul Gaillard
Professional painter
www.raoulgaillard.org
Born in 1943 (France)
Childhood et Secondary studies in Saint-Brieuc (Brittany)
1961 Academy Charpentier - Paris
1962 Superior National School of Decorative Arts – Paris (ENSAD)
1966 Diploma. Specialization: Art Mural
1968-69 Military service in the Navy: Toulon and Brest (Squadron of the Atlantic)
Visit of the principal ports of Western Europe.
1970-75 Group Exposition in Paris and Brittany.
Personal exhibition in Saint-Brieuc, Brest and Quimper.
Biennial of Saint-Brieuc. 198. Salon “Grands et jeunes” – Grand Palais in Paris.
1982 : 27e Exhibition Salon “Contemporary art” Montrouge
Art gallery of Paris-Orly Airport.
Salon “November at Vitry”
1983 Vitry Exhibition of the Marine National Museum in Paris.
1984 29e Exhibition : Salon “Dessin et Peinture à l’Eau – Grand Palais - Paris. G.E.C.A. La Rochelle Exposes in Gallery “Sanguine” (21/12 to the 15/1/ 85)
Town of Corbeil Award
1984. 1985 Marine National Museum in Paris - Paris A.C.M. Town hall of the XVIIIe Paris district. Exhibition "Subject Boat" to the C.A.C. : Corbeil-Essonne June 1985.
1986 Douarnenez "Glances on the Sea" (8/8 - 6/9/86). OUESSANT (August 86).
1987 Marine National Museum in Paris - Paris Exhibition to the Descartes Gallery: " Inscriptions maritimes" 28/11-29/12/87
1988 Exhibition :Salon “Drawing and Watercolours” Grand Palais - Paris.
1989 Exhibition :"Voiles de la Liberté" Rouen July 89.
1990 Exposition "Shores" at the Crédit Agricole’ bank - Saint - Brieuc. Marine National Museum in Paris.
Exhibition : Salon “Drawing and Watercolours” – Grand Palais- Paris.
1991 Exposition "painters of the Sea" Port Bénéteau - Paris. Bénéteau Painters of Navy award.
International festival of the pleasure : “Peintres de la Marine” - September in Cannes.
1992 Exposition "Brises marines" at the Crédit Mutuel bank - Avenue Niel 75 017 Paris.
1993 Exposition "June at Saint-Cloud". C.C.F. award
Orders of painting in homage to Victor Hugo for the Musée Victor Hugo de Villequier - Seine Maritime. Realization of a poster starting from the table.
1994 Marine National Museum in Paris "Journées des Peintres" Club of Vatine - Montt-Saint-Aignan. Exposition : " Scènes maritimes "23/24/25/09/94.
1995 Exposition "Espaces maritimes" to the Gallery Art-Expo (June 95) rue Saint-Paul in Paris.
1996 Marine National Museum in Paris.
1997 Personal exhibition, Gallery Déprez-Bellorget March 97
1998 Marine National Museum in Paris.
1999 Personal eshibition, Gallery Déprez-Bellorget Paris "Petite suite portuaire" March-April
2000-03 Expose regularly at the Déprez-Bellorget Gallery and Marine National Museum in Paris.
Personal Exposition : "Sea, Marines, Sailors" Of July 3 at August 3, 2003
BLANCHARDEAU Center Brittany
2004 April-May Personal Exhibition in Paris at the Déprez-Bellorget Gallery.
2004-05 Raoul Gaillard is an invited artist with in the framework of the exposition "Ports et grands navires". Des Arts et des Hommes - Vannes (France)
2005 : Exhibition: “Lettres océanes” Epic of the Cape-Horniers Blanchardeau Center
2005 Automn : Marine National Museum in Paris
Personal Exhibition : Château du Boisgelin (Brittany)
2006 : Exhibition : « Des Arts et des Hommes » august-october 2006
2007 Personal Exhibition : Galerie Deprez-Bellorget Paris of march until april 7.
www.deprez-bellorget.com
2008 February : Exhibition : PERROS-GUIREC Maison des Traouïero
May-november : Galerie François Giraudeau Ile de Ré
www.francoisgiraudeau.com
july-september : personal exhibition : Galerie des Sablons –SAINT-MALO
www.galeriedessablons.com
september-october : 18e Salon « Regards sur les Arts »-22400 LAMBALLE
www.regards-sur-les-arts.com
2009 March-april : personal exhibition : Galerie Déprez-Bellorget. PARIS
www.deprez-bellorget.com
July-august : personal exhibition : Maison de la Fontaine - BREST
September-october : personal exhibition : la Prébendale - SAINT-POL-DE-LEON
|
|
|
english
español
francais
russkii
