Alain Clément is a French abstract painter whose works grow out of a lifelong exploration of color, lines, curves, physicality and space.
Clément taught at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier from 1970 until 1977. He began teaching at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes in 1977, and was headmaster of the school from 1985 until 1990. He lives and works in Nîmes. Clément studied drawing at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, an art school in the Montparnasse district of Paris and learned engraving and printmaking at Atelier 17, an influential print workshop founded in Paris by Stanley William Hayter, a British Surrealist.
Clément has exhibited extensively, and his works are collected by several international public institutions, including Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, France; the Museum of Art and History, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; the Kunst Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany, and many others.
Clément’s practice is rooted in an exploration of color — sometimes color as volume, sometimes color as a lyrical expression of gesture, sometimes color as a graphic presence — always color as an element that is endowed with multiple meanings. His work fluctuates between painting and sculpture, a back and forth that both results from, and contributes to, an ongoing exchange of ideas.
The medium of painting offers Clément an arena in which gestural freedom, physicality, experimentation and immediacy can lead to the development of curved, graphic expressions of color and line, which may then be simplified and extended further into space as sculptural forms. Whether they manifest on a two-dimensional plane in a free and physical way, like a dance, or as a three-dimensional volume, intricately planned, his compositions can be understood in terms of the visual relationships they express between color and space.
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22AV4P-2022 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Canvas, Oil
19M1P-2019 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
10JU23P-2010 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Canvas, Oil
24JU7P-2024 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Canvas, Oil
24JU6P-2024 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Canvas, Oil
22AV5P-2022 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Canvas, Oil
20JU4P-2020 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Canvas, Oil
22F13A-2022 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Gouache, Archival Paper
22F3A-2022 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Gouache, Archival Paper
22F2A-2022 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Gouache, Archival Paper
22JA2A-2022 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Gouache, Archival Paper
16J6A-2016 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Gouache, Archival Paper, Charcoal
14AV8A-2014 (Abstract Painting)
By Alain Clément
Located in London, GB
Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to ...
Gouache, Archival Paper
$6,609
H 40.56 in W 34.26 in D 1.58 in
Contemporary Colorful Abstract Painting with Geometric Forms and White
By Christina Gschwantner
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The work reflects the artist’s mastery of gesture and emotion, where each mark becomes a visual language. A striking piece that brings movement, depth, and intensity to any collectio...
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$7,179
H 40.56 in W 39.38 in D 1.58 in
Christina Gschwantner Gestures Contemporary Abstract Painting Bright Vivid
By Christina Gschwantner
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The work reflects the artist’s mastery of gesture and emotion, where each mark becomes a visual language. A striking piece that brings movement, depth, and intensity to any collectio...
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Flowers7, bold composition, textural collage elements
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract sculptural still-life: a pot of flowers. Mixed media on canvas. Neutral tones, cheerful simplicity, boldly poetic
Canvas, Mixed Media, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic
$1,700
H 39.38 in W 31.5 in D 0.79 in
Belarusian Contemporary Art by Dasha Buben - Control Attempt #32
By Dasha Buben
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Dasha Buben is a Belarusian artist born in 1982 who lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. She graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Arts in ...
Canvas, Oil
$4,000
H 30 in W 40 in D 1.5 in
Peace and Power, abstract gemstone crystal, oil painting, yellow, peach, pink
By Loren Abbate
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Peace and Power" is an abstract geometric oil and acrylic painting on canvas by Loren Abbate. It is a horizontally oriented rectangular piece and measures 30 inches high by 40 inch...
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
$7,179
H 47.25 in W 39.38 in D 1.58 in
Christina Gschwantner, Colorful Contemporary Abstract Painting on Blue
By Christina Gschwantner
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The work reflects the artist’s mastery of gesture and emotion, where each mark becomes a visual language. A striking piece that brings movement, depth, and intensity to any collectio...
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$600
H 21.66 in W 25.2 in D 1.58 in
French Abstract Contemporary Art by Josette Dubost - Songe en Argos
By Josette Dubost
Located in Paris, IDF
2017 oil on canvas 55 x 64 cm Josette Dubost is a French artist born in 1936 who lives & works in Solliès-Pont, France.
Canvas, Oil
$11,568
H 36 in W 36 in D 2 in
Blue Yonder-Monroe Hodder, American, Abstract, Bold, Modern, Red, Blue, Oil
By Monroe Hodder
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Blue Yonder is an original oil over acrylic on canvas painting by American artist Monroe Hodder. Hodder’s abstract paintings are gloriously bold. Inspired by the urban backdrops of h...
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Structure 209 - oil and acrylic on canvas
By Kymm Swank
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Kymm Swank is a self-taught artist who works primarily in oils, acrylics and resins. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, she received degrees in theater, psychology and communicat...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$15,000
H 78.75 in W 59.06 in D 1.58 in
Chinese Contemporary Art by Renjie Gao - Untitled
By Renjie Gao
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Renjie Gao or Jean-Michel Gao is a Chinese artist born in 1994 who lives & works in Beijing Songzhuang in China. He is Master Fu Zenan & member of New York Hudson Arti...
Canvas, Oil
$23,000
H 60 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
"Armonia" by Masri - Striking Dynamic Abstract Painting with Cool Color Palette
By Masri Hayssam
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri Hayssam(Lebanese, born 1965) "Armonia" 2018 Oil paint, Acrylic paint, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher bars The artist signed the painting on the back of the canvas. "Armonia" i...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$5,000
H 83 in W 87 in
"Nowhere to Land III" Abstract Painting 83" x 87" inch by Carole Baines
By Carole Baines
Located in Culver City, CA
"Nowhere to Land III" Abstract Painting 83" x 87" inch by Carole Baines ATT: painting ships rolled in a tube Carole Baines is a self-taught, London-born artist based between Townsv...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Haven series 374 - 376
By Jerry Cabrera
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jerry Cabrera’s Light Painting series captures the preciousness and sacredness of light through his glowing and vibrant rectangular canvasses. Although abstract, Cabrera’s stacked ca...
Canvas, Oil
$4,000
H 23.63 in W 31.5 in D 1.19 in
Chinese Contemporary Art by Renjie Gao - Untitled
By Renjie Gao
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Renjie Gao or Jean-Michel Gao is a Chinese artist born in 1994 who lives & works in Beijing Songzhuang in China. He is Master Fu Zenan & member of New York Hudson Arti...
Canvas, Oil
Edge (pink)
By Zack Smithey
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Zack Smithey’s Edge (Pink) operates at the intersection of geometric abstraction and fluid gesture, a tension that has shaped modern and contemporary art since the mid-20th century. ...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic