Featured
Artist for May 1998
| Featured
GiveAway
by Bernard Perrone
Anemones, 1998
7 3/4" x
9 1/2"
Oil On Canvas
Valued at $2200 | |
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Donna White
Wilmington,
DE | |
Bernard painted this GiveAway especially for this feature. It's a little gem and
the color and brush strokes add to the subtle feeling that eminates from this
work. A beautifully illustrated, hard cover book that traces his work over the
past 25 years also accompanies this GiveAway. It will be shipped to the winner
directly from the artist so the winners name and a dedication from the artist
will be inscribed in the book.
MEET THE ARTIST
 | Bernard
Perrone was born in 1942 in the Lot area of South France. His father is Italian
and his mother is of Polish origin. He spent all his boyhood and teenage years
in the Jura Mountains with his uncle, the famous painter, Pierre Klemszynski.
His weekends were spent in Picardie where his parents have a country house. It
was in Beauvais that he was first noticed in 1962, during his first exhibition
with the Société des Artistes de l'Oise, where he received the Silver Medal of
the show. | | Featured
Artist
Bernard Perrone | His
life has been studded by many successful exhibitions in Paris, the provinces and
abroad and his trade as a theatrical scenery designer has allowed him to polish
his colourist and graphic designer expertise. |
Bernard has designed for Chagall, Chapelain Midy, Cocteau, Jean-Michel Folon,
Jean-Denis Malclès, and his decors have appeared in all the theatres in France.
In 1979, his numerous private exhibitions and his participation in big
national shows, allowed him to dedicate himself entirely to oil and watercolor
painting.
In 1982, he organized a retrospective of his works at the
Maladrerie Saint Lazare in Beauvais. This retrospective of "20 years of painting",
gathered together 300 works that were created between 1960 and 1982. The works
were lent by his buyers and the event was quite successful being shown in a peaceful
ambience. The works were admired and the progress of the artist over the years
was appreciated, as well as his color handling expertise and his study of composition.
In
1987, he published a book with many color reproductions relating his life through
his love of pictures and the integrity in his art.
The craftsman, as
he likes to call himself, only works
on landscapes and architectures on the
spot and
never touches up in his studio. He also never uses photographs and
declares himself a "disabled",
driven by the need to feel the ambience
and the palpitating life in his subjects. |  |
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Painting
At Seaside |
His watercolors are executed directly onto the paper with pencil lines, sketches,
and 'no white reservation' are allowed. He can also copy antique tapestries which
is a technical skill he picked up from his years designing theater scenery.
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His pompeian frescos
now decorate the walls of a Quercy house which is another technique that uses
pigments mixed with antique binders and modern fixatives.
The craftsman also creates Trompe-l'œil paintings for his own and the pleasure
of others.Trompe-l'œil painting is now accepted as a decorative technique and
was used initially in architecture to create the illusion of space. |
| Poppies
on Blue Background | |
ABOUT THE ARTIST
He's
always creating a sensation of wonder in every image, and a real jubilation in
his art is capturing the environment of his subjects. He use only top quality
oil paint in tubes with brushes and a knife. He prefers linen canvas he makes
and prepares himself with an ochre juice to hide the too agressive white of the
linen canvas. Thus, he can use it as a color background. On such prepared support,
he traces a sketch with charcoal which wears away as he paints over it.
Bernard
also likes watercolor since using an Arches
"grain torchon" paper guarantees
quality and longevity.
For watercolors, he paints without any sketch, directly
with colors from the palette, leaving blank areas where
white is needed.
There are no corrections with watercolor which is the opposite to oil painting.
He truly enjoys painting, walking and observing everthing around him. He
admires architecture and monuments - preferably the old ones. |  |
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The
Easel |
He enjoys his home with
a garden near Paris while he collects old furniture and objects. On the first
floor he's installed his workshop which is a wide room with old floor tiles, a
fireplace and natural light where he paints compositions with flowers. He also
likes cooking and welcoming family and friends. He hates violence, intolerance,
partiality, disregard from others and arrogance. What truly makes him tick is
the innocence of children, all natural emotions, calm, beauty, music, and theater.
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It's natural, like a second
nature for Bernard, to create art. He gets an unexplained pleasure in manipulating
shapes and colors and the action of painting and the relation it creates with
the subject sharing the good side of egoism. He
feels most creative when the lighting is good and natural and also when he has
a good feeling of the subject. | |
The Blue
Pots | |
He paints only from nature as he feels the need to fit with it. He doesn't rely
on memory and every thing is done instantly and he is fast enough to condensate
his emotion in a given time.
He
prefers to paint during the day, behind the subject and
does not like to simply
compose the subject. In other words,
he prefers to find his subjects in nature.
He prepares the supports himself, like silence and manual work. He likes meditation
and is not afraid of being alone. He prefers
subtile colors to contrasts
and would rather convince than
make assertions. He prefers softness and instinct
of a
glance to calculations about images. He wishes to be understood by everybody
in his aesthetic research and
suggests life even if there are no characters
in a painting. |  |
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The
Bunch of Poppies |
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Bernard Perrone is a
Member of: Salon
des Indépendants (Independant Artist's)
Artistes Français (French Artists)
Salon d'hiver (Winter exhibit)
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The Bunch
with Key | |
National Exhibits in Paris:
1966 to 1980:
Free Art (Art Libre)
Latin Earth (Terres Latines)
National Society of
Arts (Société Nationale des Beaux Arts)
Exhibits in Paris:
1967 Galerie Mouffe
1969 Galerie Vendôme
1970 Galerie Entremonde
1971 Galerie Vendôme
1974 Galerie Ror Volmar
1979 Galerie Guigné
Group exhibits Paris:
1967 Galerie Welter, Galerie
Marcel Bernheim, Galerie du Parnasse
1968 Galerie des Champs-Elysées (Prize
"Arts, Sciences & Lettres")
1975 Bois le Roi (1st prize of sculpture)
1993 Cercle des Arts (Special mention of the jury)
1995 Pré saint Gervais
(Alchemy of drawing)
Group exhibits France & Overseas:
1962 Beauvais (Society of Artists of Oise - Silver medal)
1963 Maidstone
(UK)
1967 Deauville (Special mention - International painting prize)
1968
Detroit (USA)
1968 Beauvais (Society of Poets & Artists of France - Golden
medal)
1968 Andjik (Holland)
1969 Versailles (1st prize for youngs)
1970 Juvisy
1971 Soissons (1st prize of the City)
1972 Enghien Les Bains
1976 Montaigu de Quercy
1977 Bobigny
1977 Fouquenies
1980 Les Lilas
"La main prolonge l'idée" (The hand sustains the idea)
1993/94 Plomodiern
1997 Saint Germer de Fly (1st prize of painting)
1997 Audenge
Personal exhibits in France:
1969/71 Amiens
1976 Sainte Livrade
1978 Beaumont
1982 Maladrerie de Beauvais (Retrospective - 20 years of painting)
1987 Livry Gargan
1989 Pont du Casse (Agen)
1996/97 Maison David à Andernos
Every year since 1977:
In Quercy area:
Cahors,
Montcuq, Castelnau Montratier, Lauzerte.
In Picardie area :
Gerberoy, Beauvais, Chaumont en Vexin, Crevecoeur le Grand, Breteuil.
In the painter studio (Les Lilas)
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FEW WORDS FROM THE ARTIST
With
you I share this long artistic progress through life and am here ready to discuss
it with you. I'm glad my paintings could be seen here through the frontiers. Thanks
for looking carefully and with more than curiosity. Greediness of eyes is necessary
for opening the door to intense emotions. My purpose is to make you dream a little
more. ~ Bernard Perrone |
