{"id":1741,"date":"2024-04-30T14:15:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T12:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamah-fine-arts.com\/?post_type=dt_portfolio&p=1741"},"modified":"2024-06-05T11:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:03:39","slug":"michel-calvet","status":"publish","type":"dt_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/adamah-fine-arts.com\/en\/artistes\/michel-calvet","title":{"rendered":"Michel Calvet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michel Calvet<\/h2><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text css=\u201c\u201d]Michel Calvet was born in 1956 in Toulouse, the city in which he spent his youth. After his secondary education, Michel Calvet attended the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts (student of Denax and Boyer 1974\/75), and leads a happy Bohemian life, devoting himself to his passions: drawing and music.\n

Michel Calvet plays the saxophone in a group and intends to become a jazz musician, so much does jazz, with its rhythm and unexpected improvisations, fascinate him. During this period of freedom, he feels an imperative need for creation and it is through painting that he will choose to express himself.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\" css=\".vc_custom_1714478842638{padding-top: 170px !important;padding-right: 10% !important;padding-bottom: 170px !important;padding-left: 10% !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/adamah-fine-arts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MichBouducon-2.jpeg?id=1743) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" gap=\"35\" equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" css_animation=\"none\" css=\".vc_custom_1716811169459{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}\"][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text css=\"\"]<\/p>\n

From 1980, the success of his works allowed him to live solely from his art, exhibiting in Paris and in the provinces. In the mid-1990s, after numerous experiments with color and material, he opted for a style that suited him. It was then that he generously applied paint from his tubes with a knife to enrich his canvases with powerful, emotive touches, highlighting the originality of his approach.<\/p>\n

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As a painter of movement, he composed and rhythmically arranged his canvases with fervor, intoxicating scenes sometimes of ordinary life (Bayonne festivals, Carnivals, jazz musicians, port scenes, street performances, bullfights, orientalist landscapes...). He suggested and challenged our imagination with a mastery bordering on abstraction, always keeping it alert.<\/p>\n

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The artist's works<\/h2><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text css=\"\"]Depending on the venue and the moment, a Calvet painting may be treated at the brink of abstraction, the forms becoming colour patches, the colours invoking other forms or even becoming expressionist. Yet, whatever its treatment, none leaves one indifferent.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content_no_spaces\"][vc_column]