Claude Vénard Art
Claude Vénard has a distinct style — it’s post-Cubist in its composition and he progressively accentuated the chromaticism of his palette up to reaching the crudest of colors, which he used in very thick forms and sometimes applied with a pallet knife.
Vénard was born in France in 1913 and, dedicating himself fully to making paintings at the age of 17, he studied at the École des Arts Appliqués for six years, having fled the Académie des Beaux-Arts after just 48 hours. In 1938 he signed the Rupture manifesto and participated in the first exhibition of the influential group Forces Nouvelles, alongside Francis Gruber and Pierre Tal-Coat at the Galerie Billiet-Vorms. A close affinity subsequently developed among these painters and together they were instrumental in forging the aesthetic of the immediate postwar period of the Ecole de Paris.
Vénard quickly became known for his rich impasto and varying texture. He received critical acclaim and was personally championed by Andre Salmon and Waldemar George, who described his painting as “Apocalyptic art! Beings and everyday things suddenly regain their meaning. Emotional values are once more felt.”
Vénard’s distinct and alluring compositions developed through a post-Cubist system that oscillates between abstraction and naturalism. He opens up perspectives projecting spatial vistas into every part of the canvas, in accordance with an emotional rather than a physical order. Familiar objects arise in the midst of a network of striations and hatching. Colors grow more intense in certain zones to stress the solidity of the composition; in other zones the light is more tenuous and diaphanous, as if to indicate space of different emotional intensity.
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(Biography provided by Gallery of the Masters)
Early 20th Century Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Oil
1940s Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Oil, Cardboard
2010s Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache
1990s Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Wood, Oil
2010s Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Oil
2010s Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Linen, Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Canvas, Oil
1990s Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Linen, Oil
1990s Abstract Geometric Claude Vénard Art
Canvas, Oil