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With his wife Paulette, today departed, they formed a duet of artists, to him the drawing and the painting, to her music and both shared the same passion for the poetry and the literature.
Its brilliant career from 1929 till 1932 at the schoolteachers' training college of Grenoble, pupil of Gleizes from whom he will know how to release himself, is going him to go alongside to the biggest artists of this century, notably to Moly Sabata, and the recognition of its talent will propel its pictures in the biggest gallerys of art.
Of his grandfather ,who was a building contractor
and carpenter, whom he admires
very much, he kept the love of the well made work, the purity of lines
and the solidity of the compositions.
His eclecticism (Henri Giriat definies him as a «
painter, thinker and poet » is going him to try different
representational
pictural techniques, going as far as to steer together with
psychiatrists
(Doctors: Jacques COSNIER, Simon JALLADE and Ary BECACHE) a
thérapeutic
group (Day hospital of M.G.E.N. 44, rue Feuillat 69003 LYON FRANCE)
where
the patients could express themself throught the painting and the
drawing:
interesting experiment of art-thérapy.
As guillaume Apollinaire, he knew how to associate the painting «brilliant langage» to the poetry in his books-poems of which two copies “intervalles” and “La dialectique du regard” are a part of a donation of the artist at the University Lyon 2.
He know how to recognize the artistic talent and
make
it share: he admitted Anne Dangar (that he knew of Moly Sabata) to the
museum “Des beaux arts de Lyon” by a generous donation.
One can admire Jean Chevalier’s paintings to the museum
“d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, et de Bordeaux”, “Palais Saint Pierre
de Lyon” and to the University Lyon 2 quay Claude Bernard together with
two books-poems of an extreme cultural abundance.
«…Today I do not feel deprived of painting. For me it’s a closed book. I read the coloread and anticipated movements on our extreme questioning. See and touch, yes, and nothing without the material, our material…» Jean Chevalier in may 29, 1994 (correspondence with his doctor)
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