Jean SEBILLOTTE
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Pictorial puzzle |
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... A painting by Jean Sebillotte is built up like a puzzle, a pictorial jigsaw in which every single shape, every single colour, falls into its correct place. His pondered over at length compositons are a product of the same spirit. Whether women's portraits, his favourite theme, landscapes or still lifes, the parts fit together exactly. The painter achieves the impossible : he dare paint nudes red or daring orange which melt with moderate green plants. The arms, torsos are sometimes distorted which adds to the incongruity of those bodies haunted by some «primitivisme mixed with fauvisme» ... Appreciating pure colours, Jean Sebillotte plays with complementary colours, ochres or vivid « greys ». His deliberately dark tonalities give much appeal to his crepuscular, lunar or Nabi like landscapes. We must keep his still lifes in mind... Those who have walked along with (have accompanied) Jean Sebillotte from the start - he was born in 1936 and first exhibited in 1984 - know his requirements, expectations) and wanderings : a figurative painting with no concern for realism, a matter worked to the extreme, sometimes with sand, going from roughness to smoothness with a blending touch, chiaroscuro or flat tint together with tiny variations of an only colour so as to indicate the contours, the use of clashes. Jean Sebillotte knows how to open up his own way steadfastly and with infinite patience which are the proper characteristics of an obstinate artist. Brigitte Camus in 2004 Personal exhibitions : Group exhibitions : Permanent exhibition : |
