Joel Baudoin, large ceramic cut with a surreal bird, monogrammed.

Great surreal bird cut, monogrammed jb for joel baudoin, located durtal. Typical example of the artist's universe. Perfect condition. The painter and ceramicist, joel baudouin (1930-2013), leaves behind a substantial work. Joel baudouin, who lived in durtal, was a lover of women, but also of the tragicomic world that surrounds us. Claude-henri selles, the city's cultural director. Of trelazé, speaks of "a narrative figuration, in the service of absurdity or its opposite. Joel baudouin was able to create his own expression, his avant-garde, based on a certainly facetious writing of representation and the subject to representation." In his early years, baudouin attended the fine arts of angers and followed an apprenticeship with the ceramicist and angeline painter paul maudonnet. He then moved to paris where he became a pupil, in the 1950s, of the painter andré lhote and fernand léger. He then took the courses of the sculptor zadkine at the academy of the great cottage. In 1957, he moved as a ceramicist to vallauris (alpes-maritimes) where he produced several monumental sculptures. He frequented, among others, roger capron and pablo picasso. In 1960, he left vallauris and settled in durtal. He led the professions of ceramicist and painter. From 1995, baudouin devoted himself exclusively to painting and continued to produce enamelled ceramic sculptures. Walking all his life outside schools and currents, he leaves an unclassifiable pictorial work with strong surrealist accents. He will also recognize himself in the term baroque that some attribute to him.

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