Michel Granger
Michel Granger (born October 13, 1946 in Roanne ) is a French painter , sculptor and graphic artist .
Life
Granger graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon in 1968 , gained his first professional experience as a furniture designer and from 1972 lived mainly in Paris , where he initially illustrated a lot for the Pilote magazine .
From 1975 to 1985 he worked as an illustrator for various programs on TF1 . He has also illustrated several album covers by Jean-Michel Jarre since the 1970s . Jarre's album Oxygène featured a picture of Granger with a skull in a shattered earth. The cover is considered legendary and an environmental warning sign, and the album was a major breakthrough for both Granger and Jarre. Granger has worked for the UN , UNESCO , Reporters Without Borders , the Cannes Festival , Postage Stamps, the Emmy Awards and major magazines such as Spiegel , Le Nouvel Observateur , Paris Match and the New York Times . Since 1974 he has had numerous exhibitions in France and overseas (including USA, London, Oslo, Japan, India, Poland, Brussels, Mali).
One of his main themes since the 1970s has been the earth, especially from an ecological point of view (collected in his book Terre , Cherche Midi 2007). A number of paintings have the Tian'anmen massacre as their theme, with tanks rolling across the canvases (Traces à Wang Weilin 1989, Empreintes 2007, 2009). With similar realizations he was abroad in exhibitions and actions in Poland (Legnica, also with tanks), Berlin and Antwerp.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ dpa: 40 years of "Oxygene": A legendary cover. In: FOCUS Online www.focus.de. FOCUS Online GmbH, December 5, 2016, accessed on May 26, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Granger, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roanne |