Michel Calvet
MICHEL CALVET was born in 1956 in Toulouse, the city where he spent his youth. After his secondary studies, MICHEL CALVET attended the école des Beaux-Arts (student of Denax and Boyer 1974/75), and led a happy bohemian life, indulging in his passions: drawing and music.
MICHEL CALVET plays the saxophone in a band and considers becoming a jazz musician, so fascinated is he by jazz with its rhythm and unexpected improvisations. During this period of freedom, he felt an imperative need for creation and it was with painting that he chose to express himself.
From 1980, the success of his works allowed him to live solely from his art by exhibiting in Paris and the provinces. In the mid-90s, after numerous experiments with color and material, he opted for a style that suited him. It is now with a knife that he generously spreads the paint coming out of his tubes to enrich his paintings with powerful impasto that sit alongside lighter touches, thus highlighting the originality of his approach.
A painter of movement, he composes and rhythms his canvases with passion, an intoxication of sometimes ordinary scenes (Bayonne Festivals, Carnivals, Jazz musicians, port atmospheres, street performances, bullfighting, orientalist landscapes, etc.). He suggests and challenges our imagination with a mastery bordering on abstraction, to always keep it awake.
The artist's works
Depending on the place and time, a painting by CALVET may be treated to the limit of abstraction, the forms become patches of color, the colors call for other forms or even become expressionistic. But whatever its treatment, none leaves one indifferent.
