Le Paradis terrestre. Encre sur papier. 21 x 29,7
Arbre de vie.
Encre. 21 x 29,7. 2021
La Chèvre. 2020 Huile/toile. 100 x 81
Le Chevalier Bayar, Vainqueur de la Biodiversité.
Ou : La Fin du Paradis terrestre. Huile/toile. 292 x 73. 2020
You'll pick up a selection of drawings and paintings
created since the 2000s, as :
And more contents :
— Drawings on page Sketches.
— A harvest of enlightening quotes and aphorisms from great authors
on page Ideas.
On page Chimeras, paintings inspired of fantastic literature.
— One page New Painting.
+ Blog, presenting a selection of books, with a preference for technic subjects.
Installation.
2019. Dessin. 21 x 29,7
A short introduction and contemporary art
Today, i'm living and working in Normandy (Orne). I can assert i'm not yet dead for more than 70 years. So, by the fact : i am fully a "contemporary artist". And my painting is totally "contemporary art".
This first remark is justified, the true definition of "contemporary art" being : An art produced by a living artist - or dead for less than 70 years (roughly, the period after World War II).
Art marketing has managed to make our mind associate this qualification "contemporary art" with : installations, performances, photo, video, land art, street art. To sum up all these in one pedantic word, as meaningless as Monsieur Jourdain's prose: conceptual.
So, everything has been done to exclude painting - and painters - from this definition.
Olivier de Rivaz — peintre —Société