Agnes Boulloche
Agnès Boulloche (* 1951 in Paris ) is a French painter and sculptor.
Life
Agnès Boulloche was born in Paris as the daughter of André Boulloche , who later became the Minister of Education of France, and spent her childhood in Morocco , where her father was the head of the Roads Department. At a young age she developed a fondness for unknown countries and myths, dealt with the legends of the Arabian Nights and became a connoisseur of Djinns .
In the 1960s the family returned to Paris and Agnès attended the École des arts décoratifs .
She focused on painting in oils on wood and opened her first exhibition in Paris soon after completing her studies. Since 1975 her works have been shown regularly at exhibitions in France, Belgium, Holland, Japan, Austria, Switzerland, the USA and Africa.
Agnès Boulloche lives and works alternately in Paris and on the Île de Ré , on the Atlantic coast of southern France.
plant
Boulloche is one of the most important surrealist artists in France at the turn of the 20th to the 21st century. Her works are influenced by the fantastic creatures of Hieronymus Bosch , who endowed many beings with animal heads like fish, birds, pigs or predators. Her paintings are reminiscent of the world of the Renaissance and the late Middle Ages with landscape backgrounds similar to the Renaissance compositions by Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci .
She was inspired by the richly and imaginatively illustrated "bestiaries" of the 12th and 13th centuries and brought works by Philippe de Thaon , Guillaume le Clerc , Gervaise de Fontenay and Richard de Fournival back to life in a modern version.
In her painting technique, too, she follows traditional and old models. She uses her own different alchemical formulas for her colors and mixes her own color carriers, pigments and varnishes. With these oil paints she paints on wooden panels using the “glazing technique” of the old masters, whereby many transparent layers of paint are superimposed in several passes. This enables her to work out particularly fine details and to achieve delicate, bright colors.
Another area of her artistic activity is the production of sculptures , which are mainly cast in bronze using the lost wax technique and chiseled and patinated by hand .
literature
- “Lexicon of Fantastic Artists” by Gerhard Habarta, ISBN 978-3-8482-6307-3 , p. 77
Web links
- Agnès Boulloche on the Edition Strassacker website, accessed on November 4, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agnès Boulloche on the “artfan.de” website, accessed on November 4, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boulloche, Agnes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |