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By Regan Treewater

(ANNews) - The beautiful art on the cover of this month's Alberta Native News is by Delreé Dumont, a very talented contemporary artist. It is a vibrant self portrait of Dumont in full regalia.

"I've always been an artist" commented Delreé in a recent interview. "Since I was a child, I've always excelled in the arts."

Born in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Dumont built an impressive thirty-two-year career in Alberta's competitive oil and gas industry, and British Columbia and Saskatchewan's underground diamond mining operations, before devoting herself full-time to her art in the summer of 2014. Now, an established and celebrated artist, she has enjoyed international acclaim in addition to national Canadian recognition for her powerful depictions of Indigenous themes.

As a member of the Onion Lake Cree Nation, Dumont possesses a deep spiritual connection to her heritage, and has always endeavored to foster dialog facilitating greater understanding and appreciation of the rich traditions she was born into.

"Throughout those thirty-two-years I always promoted appreciation for the beauty of our traditions and culture; and being in a corporate environment this was accepted, and it was truly embraced and appreciated."

Dumont continued, explaining that: "I left the oil and gas industry in July of 2014; and I picked up my brushes and I started painting fulltime. I used to do Realism - and I still dabble in Realism - but I discovered Pointillism, which is a fancy word for dots" she mused.

"I paint wildlife, horses, flowers, and dancers in regalia." Using acrylic paints, Dumont's subjects are inherently connected with movement - an electricity that she brings to life with remarkable vibrancy with dots.

"Movement and color have a special place in my work. Some people have commented that my work looks almost three-dimensional, like it's not restricted to the canvas at all. I want people to see the birds fly off the canvas, to see the fluttering of a dancer's shawl."

A traditional dancer herself, Dumont's focus on Indigenous themes is a deeply personal one, but also an attempt to help the content resonate with diverse audiences in lasting and meaningful ways.

"I feel that Pointillism promotes the beauty of our culture and traditions in the sense that it appears like beadwork on canvas; it reflects our history, and dance, and songs," she explained. "My work draws on my experiences as an Indigenous person."

Delreé was initially drawn to traditional dance to remember and honor her mother and now her husband, Sheldon as well. Her engagement with this form of performing art has also taken on healing qualities.

After losing her husband to cancer in May of 2018, Dumont's work has entered a new stage of exploration. Much of her current material delves into the many facets of the emotions and realities she is being confronted with: pain, loss, grieving, and her new identity as a widow.

"I picked up my paint brushes again in late September; I started attending art shows again, painting my experience as a widow, and grieving, learning to be who I am again as an individual and artist. Some of my paintings do reflect the pain of my loss."

The current creation hanging from her easel depicts a solitary woman sitting on the ground "with sweetgrass and her hands in her lap. She just finished smudging but grief overwhelms her, and she cries and cries - a healing cleanse." The component of visually captured movement characteristic of Dumont's style is represented by smoke rising upwards.

Despite closing her gallery, Delreé's Native Art Gallery, in Didsbury, Alberta - a cultural epicenter for three years - Dumont's career continues to ascend to new heights. In 2018 she was invited to represent Canada at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, Germany by invitation of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada. Attendees were able to watch as Dumont painted live and on location at the Embassy.

She has completed two new exhibitions on the docket and is actively composing a children's book that she will, of course, be illustrating herself. Delreé Dumont's story is an inspiration to everyone who every day, dreamed of being an artist, and as she lives out her own dream, with all its twists and turns, her work continues to evolve and flourish.

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By Regan Treewater (ANNews) - The beautiful art on the cover of this month's Alberta Native News is by Delreé Dumont, a very talented contemporary artist. It is a vibrant self portrait of Dumont in full regalia. "I've always been an artist" commented Delreé in a recent interview.

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Delree Dumont is an International Cree artist from Crossfield, Alberta, Canada. Dumont was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia and is a member of Onion Lake Cree Nation located north of Lloydminster, SK. Prior to working as a full-time artist in 2014, Dumont was employed in Alberta's oil and gas industry for 32 years. During that time she promoted the beauty of her culture and traditions for the corporate environment. In 2014 she began her artistic journey by opening her
own store and art gallery, called "Delree's Native Art Gallery" in Didsbury, Alberta, Canada.

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Delree Dumont Artist Gallery Workshop Contact Delree Dumont Cree, Onion Lake Cree Nation Delree Dumont is an International Cree artist from Crossfield, Alberta, Canada. Dumont was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia and is a member of Onion Lake Cree Nation located north of Lloydminster, SK.

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(December 2, 1859 - March 29, 1891)

Georges Seurat (December 2, 1859 - March 29, 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting.

Seurat was born into a very rich family in Paris. His father, Antoine Chrysostom Seurat, was a legal official and a native of Champagne; his mother, Ernestine Faivre, was Parisian.

Georges Seurat first studied art with Justin Lequiene, a sculptor. Seurat attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1878 and 1879.

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(December 2, 1859 - March 29, 1891) Georges Seurat (December 2, 1859 - March 29, 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting.

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Miguel Endara illuminates ink and paper with dimension, depth and precision through an intricate stippling technique.

Benjaman Kyle is a portrait of a man with no identity. His name is the pseudonym adopted by Benjaman Kyle himself, who has dissociative amnesia. He was discovered unconscious on August 31, 2004, and is believed to be about 64 years old. He is the only citizen in the United States officially listed as missing despite his whereabouts being known. After catching a screening of Finding Benjaman at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012, a short film about Benjaman Kyle's story, I was inspired to help in any way I could. I decided to create a portrait of Benjaman in the hopes of spreading awareness of his situation and to help raise money through the sale of prints to support a petition to get him a new social security number. For the past nine years he has been denied the ability to obtain a new social security number which in turn prevents him from opening a bank account or having a credit card, which also prevents him from having a real job. The government argues that he already has one, but despite the efforts of fingerprint matching, DNA tests, and exposure on television, he simply cannot determine his true identity.
Hero
In what would become my most viral piece, Hero is a drawing of my father composed of approximately 3.2 million dots. It was also my first drawing that I decided to document with a video in order to allow myself and others to understand the evolution of the drawing. Using all the footage taken of the piece, I was able to determine the amount of dots in the drawing by multiplying the average stippling speed, 4.25 dots per second, by the amount of time logged in, 210 hours. That translated into 3,213,000, but because I think that number might be off by just a few thousand dots or so, I rounded it off to an even 3.2 million. This information wasn't entirely useful to me, but I've always been asked how many dots are in my pieces, and I was never able to give a number, not even a ballpark figure, so coming up with a simple formula to help me determine this was incredibly rewarding - not to mention that I had been strangely curious in how many dots were needed to create one single piece using one single pen for many years.

Check out the artist creating
Lily with a Pearl Earring
Lily with a Pearl Earring is a portrait of myself and my wife who, at the time, was my girlfriend of only two months. Going into the drawing I was a bit nervous since this would be my first attempt at stippling hair and working with an immense amount of black space. It took nearly half of the total time just to fill in the darkest areas of the piece, though a therapeutic process I greatly cherish. Slowly it became a useful and necessary task of getting into a rhythm and preparing myself for the rest of the drawing so as to avoid any nervous tendencies that may result in placing dots in the wrong areas or shading a specific area too much. I typically don't have a large margin of error to work with when it comes to the lighter areas of the drawing, so it's important for me to remain comfortable and place each dot where it needs to be placed. Drawing my face wasn't easy either. A self portrait is, and will always be, the hardest subject to accomplish in a drawing.
Capricho Arabe
An experimental and relatively quick piece, Capricho Arabe is a drawing of an intricate stone wall carving I came across while visiting La Alhambra, a palace and fortress located in Granada, Spain. This carving was particularly intricate and highly detailed, and appeared to be the most complex. But taking a few steps back, I realized that this was just one, of perhaps millions, of other highly detailed carvings that covered the ceilings and facades of just about every room. Admittedly, to give any significance to just one carving seemed a bit silly since there was an endless amount of carvings to admire, but through all of its enormity, I found peace in just this one carving. I don't have the slightest clue what the arabic symbol at the center of the carving dictates, though I imagine, and so desperately hope, that it bleeds with poetry and romanticism from a long long time ago.
Ash
Ash is the name of the model that posed for the drawing. We met briefly during my travels in the Caribbean and later became somewhat of a love interest for a short period of time. Unfortunately, midway into the drawing, our relationship turned a bit sour, her character shifted into something I was no longer interested in and our bond was shattered almost immediately. Of course, I had doubts about finishing the piece altogether, but continued nonetheless. The original title of the piece was not determined until a few months after it was completed when it occurred to me that "Ash" had its double meaning - it was her name, and, metaphorically speaking, what our relationship had turned into. The piece was also a great starting point for my career in the sense that I became more enthusiastic about using real people as my subjects.

Featured image: Miguel Endara, Hero, ink on paper, 11″ x 17″, 2011
All images © of the artist

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Miguel Endara illuminates ink and paper with dimension, depth and precision through an intricate stippling technique. Benjaman Kyle is a portrait of a man with no identity. His name is the pseudonym adopted by Benjaman Kyle himself, who has dissociative amnesia. He was discovered unconscious on August 31, 2004, and is believed to be about 64 years old.

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Paris-based artist Thomas Dartigues (aka Decktwo) illustrates different cityscapes around the world in his incredible, large-scale mural art. A former street artist, Dartigues ditched the spray can in favor of black markers for his minimalist line drawings. Sketched across large sheets of paper and walls, each sprawling cityscape drawing features some of the world's most famous landmarks, rendered in incredible detail.

To date, Dartigues' projects have ranged from live drawing events to commissioned commercial projects. For one project, titled Global City, Dartigues traveled to New York, where he was commissioned to transform a plain white kitchen wall into an immersive, illustrated cityscape. He combined elements from different parts of the globe-including winding roads and rivers, famous monuments, and vast mountainscapes-into one gigantic mural that covered the entirety of the room's surface, including the kitchen cabinets.

In another project, Dartigues was commissioned by sports fashion brand New Balance to create a mural for their Boston showroom, where the company was founded. The artist incorporated the iconic 574 New Balance sneaker into the cityscape, by illustrating its contours and details with roads, highways, and clusters of detailed architecture.

Inspired by the spirit of each city, Dartigues sees each urban landscape as "a sprawling energy that spreads its tentacles from the center outwards....The city is an entity with two faces: it is a place of tension and power struggles, but also it is an incredible energy vessel."

Find more of Dartigues' awesome work on his website.

Paris-based artist Thomas Dartigues (aka Decktwo) illustrates different cityscapes around the world, creating incredible, large-scale mural art.

Sketched across large sheets of paper and walls, each sprawling cityscape drawing features some of the world's most famous landmarks in incredible detail.

To date, Dartigues' projects have ranged from live drawing events to commissioned commercial projects.
Decktwo: Website | Facebook | Instagram
My Modern Met granted permission to use photos by Decktwo.

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Artist Covers Entire Walls With Incredible Large Murals of Cities Around the World

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Paris-based artist Thomas Dartigues (aka Decktwo) illustrates different citiescapes around the world, creating incredible, large-scale mural art. Sketched across large sheets of paper and walls, each sprawling cityscape drawing features some of the world's most famous landmarks in incredible detail.

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In 2012, I painted a mural in NYC, in 2015 I'm back for the part 2.
Freehand mural - markers on wall - L6m x H5m
Shot & edited by Nathalie Lapicorey and Thomas Dartigues
Music: Oddisee "After Thoughts" on the album The Beauty In All.
Special thanks : Tim Abraham, Morten Olesen, Cathy Oliveira, Stéphane Helbert, Molotow, Irishka & Keoni, Cris & Matt, GSS crew, Oddisee.
©2015 Natom Production.

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The Incredible Art of New Balance Collector Decktwo

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We we visited Parisian artist Thomas Dartigues aka Decktwo in his own studio to see some of his art and of course his amazing New Balance collection.

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Pablo Bronstein in his home, Bethnal Green, London 2011
© TransGlobe Publishing / Photography: Robin Friend

Pablo Bronstein is an Argentinian artist who lives and works in London. His work spans from drawing to choreography and performance; always with a focus on architecture. Bronstein's illustrations of buildings resemble architectural plans of 18th Century France and the 1980's, with much reference to Baroque. However, these are not drawings of real places, they have been dreamt up in Bronstein's imagination.

Pablo Bronstein
Design for a Grand Parterre with fountain for the front lawn of Tate Britain, Pimlico 2008
© The artist, courtesy Herald Street, London

Why did he become interested in architecture?

I'm an immigrant; I was born in Argentina. I lived in a modern flat in Buenos Aires; then I found myself in a very old house in London. My grandmother's house in Buenos Aires was spectacular and classical and grandiose; the house we moved to in London was small and in a horrible neighbourhood. Perhaps that [gave me a] sense of loss ... I'm not sure ... or a sense of wanting to escape, or an aspiration to bigger things ...
Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios published by Thames & Hudson

What are his key works?

Erecting of the Paternoster Square Column 2008 demonstrates Bronstein's ability to re-create structures from the past whilst reinventing them. As the architect Sam Jacob has observed, 'The picture is drawn and framed in such a way as that one might almost believe it to be some kind of documentary evidence' (Jacob 2013, p.12).

The drawing is one of a series which re-imagines the development of Paternoster Square by Goldman Sachs, thereby exploring the "political, social and visual effects of urban redevelopment projects."

It is a mythical re-telling of the construction of one of the most important Postmodern set pieces in London. This sort of stage set piazza is really quite incredible. It's basically like it's been vacuum molded in this cheap reconstituted stone material to imitate whatever Baroque buildings, it is sort of Baroque, but cheapo Baroque, with bits of terracotta tiling, it's a bit of a mess.
Bronstein 2009, accessed 28 November 2014

Pablo Bronstein, Constantinople Kaleidoscope 2012
Photo: Tate Photography, Gabrielle Fonseca Johnson
Courtesy the artist and Herald Street, London © Pablo Bronstein

For a BMW Tate Live: Performance Room series, Pablo Bronstein premiered his piece Constantinople Kaleidoscope, an entirely new work made especially for Tate. Involving a group of dancers, Bronstein created a stage set that exaggerated the perspective of the room with mirrored columns.

His most ambitious project to date, Historical Dances in an Antique Setting, will be on view at Tate Britain in the Duveen Galleries, until October 2016. The piece takes inspiration from the neo-classical surroundings of the Duveen galleries and the artist's interest in the Baroque period to create a continuous live performance. Dancers will move through the galleries every day, interacting with the architectural elements of the installation.

What the critics say...

There is no questioning the technique and the labour-intensive quality of his work. His large projects always contain some architectural elements, a mixing of real and imaginary.
Karen Wright, The Independent, 2014

[His] drawings make free use of history but combine it with pure invention, without distinguishing between the two.
Kirsty Bell, Art in America, 2014

Antique glamour, the courting of kitsch, the constant presence of questions about politics and economics - all of these [are] aspects of Bronstein's work ...
Brian Dillon, NY Times, 2015

Pablo Bronstein with performer Irene Cena in his 2011 work Tragic Stage at his Sketches for Regency Living show at the ICA, London
© TransGlobe Publishing / Photography: Robin Friend

Bronstein in quotes...

One thing I like about architecture is its attempt at aspiration, its desperation. I'm not excited by good-quality, decent, sophisticated buildings. I like buildings that want to be seen as better than they are.
Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios published by Thames & Hudson

My feeling is that if it looks too much like art then it probably isn't art.
Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios published by Thames & Hudson

Instead of drawing traditional houses as a child "I drew castles, with carefully demarcated bricks - and each brick would have a different motif carefully drawn upon it.
The Independent, 2014

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Pablo Bronstein, (born 1977, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Argentine-born artist whose works often reflected his interest in architecture.

Bronstein was four years old when his family moved from Buenos Aires to London. He drew compulsively, always creating images of castles and villas. After a brief matriculation in architecture school, Bronstein enrolled for a year at University of the Arts London's Central Saint Martins college. He then transferred to the Slade School of Fine Art, where he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001. At Goldsmiths, University of London, he earned a postgraduate diploma in the visual arts (2003) and a Master of Arts (2004). While concentrating on site-specific installations, he continued to draw, and by the end of his studies, he had mastered the dip pen. Bronstein rendered Baroque monuments with whimsical additions, which he exhibited in gilded frames that were purchased in secondhand shops. In 2006 he gained a measure of celebrity by conducting a bus tour for attendees of the Frieze Art Fair, pointing out some of London's less-stellar postmodern buildings; he drew the highlights and published them in the pocket-sized A Guide to Postmodern Architecture in London (2008).

In 2009 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, commissioned several drawings mythologizing the history of the collection for the exhibition "Pablo Bronstein at the Met" (2009-10). His ongoing installation work developed parallel to his drawing: he added choreography to his exhibit at the 2006 Tate Triennial and employed actors for his 2013 Art Basel submission Marie Antoinette and Robespierre Engage in an Irritable Post-coital Conversation. Bronstein also intervened in the built environment, as seen in Beach Hut in the Style of Nicholas Hawksmoor (2014), a gunmetal-gray columnar tower that was inserted among the colourful British beach sheds on the Folkestone coast. The 2015 exhibition "Pablo Bronstein: We Live in Mannerist Times," at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, focused on marvels of 19th-century industry. The works revealed a fine touch, historical regard, and capricious yet contemporary sensibility.

In 2015 Bronstein also launched the Grand Tour-the title of an ongoing series that explored 18th-century British tourism from a 21st-century perspective. The first installment, "Pablo Bronstein and the Treasures of Chatsworth," was staged in the East Midlands at two venues. For the portion of "Treasures of Chatsworth" held at the Nottingham Contemporary art centre, Bronstein selected 62 "extremely rare, odd, and interesting things" (including Delft porcelain, works by Rembrandt, and a gigantic Roman marble foot) that were acquired during the Mediterranean travels of several generations of the Cavendish family-owners of the Chatsworth estate in Derbyshire since 1549. Bronstein moved the objects to the context of a modern gallery and surrounded them with his drawings of centuries-old architectural designs with the addition of imaginative flourishes. At Chatsworth House, which retained its historical decor, Bronstein inserted his drawings, including a commissioned work for the Old Master Cabinet Room. In his self-described role as "architectural provocateur," Bronstein converged the taste of the past with the irony of the present, distorting conventional ideas about art, architecture, and the history of collecting.

In 2016 Bronstein considered authenticity and artifice with Historical Dances in an Antique Setting, a site-specific work for Tate Britain featuring live performances amid a trompe l'oeil set. He extended this exploration in his next piece, Carousel (2019). The installation was commissioned by OGR (Officine Grandi Riparazioni) for the former train factory in Turin, Italy. Based on a zoetrope, a 19th-century animation mechanism, the work comprises a series of constructed spaces that includes live performance and projections of a character that Bronstein named the "Grey Witch."

Debra N. Mancoff The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Don't some students just love Pointillism? Although it is painstakingly slow, they value the results it gives them. Most art teachers have heard of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, but the following artists are alive and well, and using pointillism today. The following artists told me about their influences, art teachers and sketchbooks.

Miguel Endara

Miguel Endara earned his art degree from Miami University in Florida. His artworks are composed of millions of black ink dots, using a single Sakura Pigma Micron pen with a 0.20 mm nib.

Were you interested in art at school?

"Yes, all throughout my school years, including elementary, I have always been interested in art."

Did you have an art teacher who inspired you?

"One art teacher in high school, Rei Luzardo, who always encouraged me to pursue art. It was partially because of him that I ended up choosing Graphic Design as my major."

Do you make any other kind of art?

"I used to paint and play with charcoal a bit, but at the moment I only practice the technique of stippling. It's the most therapeutic form of art that I've ever had the opportunity to work on."

Do you keep a sketchbook?

"I have accumulated many sketchbooks over the years. Sketching on the back of my college notebooks was the first "canvas" where I discovered and practised the art of stippling."

Catherine Bath

Catherine Bath is a Pennsylvanian artist who enjoys nature and solitude. I asked Catherine the questions below.

"My paintings are a small token of timelessness in a racing world."

Were you interested in art at school?

I was interested in art from a very young age. My earliest memory was at age 4, I drew a side view of a face and I knew it was really good! The adults were amazed. I took art classes in high school and studied painting/fine arts at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. Back in the day, they taught you NOTHING about marketing your art. You have to learn how to do that!!! Social media really helps!

Yes, but I love pointillism. And I love painting in oils. I am in the process of loosening up my style.

I have many interests which I deeply explore. I am interested in sustainable houses, efficiency in all things and financial markets trading.

Do you keep a sketchbook?

I have filled many sketchbooks but lately my sketchbook has been getting filled with colorful magic marker drawings.

What practical advice would you give students who were trying to make work inspired by yours?

Big tip: never start with a white canvas. Always start by laying down a ground of color. I often start with a warm ochre ground. Then loosely wash in the composition. Now you can start making smaller pointillist brushstrokes. Take your time and get into a meditative state.

Federico Pietrella

Pietrella lives and works in Berlin. Believe it or not, the artworks below are made using a date stamp, the sort they used to stamp library books with. Pietralla always stamps using the current date, so if you look carefully the artwork reveals when it was made!

Where did you study art?

First at the art school and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and I have been very happy about it. I am full of gratitude to the institutions and the teachers, and I have still close friends with some of the teachers.

Did you have an art teacher who inspired you?

Yes of course. I mean not for the final results of my work, but for the process, for the building of my method and the stimulation of my curiosity in the art world. I'm thinking specifically of some teachers and each in different ways. In some cases arguing with them!

Do you make any other kind of art?

I have created installations and sculptures and also traditional paintings. I think (I hope) all my works have a similar mood, but I'm not sure about it.

If you teach pointillism projects you'll love the resources on The Arty Teacher!

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Don't some students just love Pointillism? Although it is painstakingly slow, they value the results it gives them. Most art teachers have heard of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, but the following artists are alive and well, and using pointillism today. The following artists told me about their influences, art teachers and sketchbooks.

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Thomas Dartigues aka Decktwo is a Paris City-based artist. He graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de l'Image in Poitiers. Graffiti artist with strong bases in drawing, he has let go spray cans and mixed his two practices to create large-scale artworks with markers. The minimalism of his practice in black and white gives place to a profusion of elements within his murals and drawings of large dimensions. His work is meticulous and thoughtful, the closer one gets, the more profound it is. Always in search for dynamics and movement, he likes to shake the notions of scales and frames to create a world in which we can immerge ourselves.

In 2006, he's been chosen to paint the walls of the entire Arums Gallery, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. Since then his talent has traveled all around the world and he's performed live paintings, from Tokyo to New York through Geneva. He works with brands like Asics, Cartier, Casio, Ford, Guerlain, L'Oréal, Lancôme, Louis Vuitton, New Balance, Renault, Vilebrequin, etc. His paintings and drawings receive an international growing interest from private collections.

AWARDS (selection)
2017 | Puvis de Chavannes Prize
2017 | Gold Medal, Salon des Beaux Arts, Sections Painting & Drawing
2015 | Winner of Secret Walls x Paris

" The city is one of my favorite sources of inspiration. Its sprawling energy that spreads its tentacles from the center outwards, its ways of networking and connectivity, the way its evolution is expressed through scale - all of it makes up the DNA of my creations. The city is an entity with two faces: it is a place of tension and power struggles, but also it is an incredible energy vessel. This dynamic is one of the foundations of my work - the pulsating force that pushes me to rethink the city. By reinventing the perception of its energy and playing with the scale, I tend to create an immersive world in which everyone can dive and get inspired."

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Gustave Caillebotte, (born August 19, 1848, Paris, France-died February 21, 1894, Gennevilliers), French painter, art collector, and impresario who combined aspects of the academic and Impressionist styles in a unique synthesis.

Born into a wealthy family, Caillebotte trained to be an engineer but became interested in painting and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He met Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet in 1874 and showed his works at the Impressionist exhibition of 1876 and its successors. Caillebotte became the chief organizer, promoter, and financial backer of the Impressionist exhibitions for the next six years, and he used his wealth to purchase works by other Impressionists, notably Monet, Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, and Berthe Morisot.

Caillebotte was an artist of remarkable abilities, but his posthumous reputation languished because most of his paintings remained in the hands of his family and were neither exhibited nor reproduced until the second half of the 20th century. His early paintings feature the broad new boulevards and modern apartment blocks created by Baron Haussmann for Paris in the 1850s and '60s. The iron bridge depicted in The Pont de l'Europe (1876) typifies this interest in the modern urban environment, and The Floor Scrapers (1875) is a realistic scene of urban craftsmen busily at work. Caillebotte's masterpiece, Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877), uses bold perspective to create a monumental portrait of a Paris intersection on a rainy day. Caillebotte also painted portraits and figure studies, boating scenes and rural landscapes, and decorative studies of flowers. He tended to use brighter colours and heavier brushwork in his later works.

Caillebotte's originality lay in his attempt to combine the careful drawing and modeling and exact tonal values advocated by the Académie with the vivid colours, bold perspectives, keen sense of natural light, and modern subject matter of the Impressionists. Caillebotte's posthumous bequest of his art collection to the French government was accepted only reluctantly by the state. When the Caillebotte Room opened at the Luxembourg Palace in 1897, it was the first exhibition of Impressionist paintings ever to be displayed in a French museum. Comprising such masterpieces as Renoir's Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876) and Édouard Manet's The Balcony (1868-69), the bequest later formed the base of the Impressionist collection at the Musée d'Orsay.

Alicja Zelazko, Assistant Editor.

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Gustave Caillebotte | Biography, Art, & Facts

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This article was most recently revised and updated by Gustave Caillebotte, (born August 19, 1848, Paris, France-died February 21, 1894, Gennevilliers), French painter, art collector, and impresario who combined aspects of the academic and Impressionist styles in a unique synthesis.