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Christian Jequel - wonderful colors of life


French artist Christian Jequel - one of the recognized masters of modern times.
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He was born on January 16, 1935 in the Ganges in the southeast of France, here he spent his childhood. Probably, the beauty of the surrounding nature and served as a source of his inspiration. Since 1958, the artist began to visit one of the old bars in the Marseille port, which served as a meeting place for artists of Provence. This bar was also called the "New School of the School". Around the same time, the artist mastered the painting with a palette knife, which later became his business card. This is a quick technique of painting oil using a metal rod (knife).

The themes of his paintings are scenes of everyday life in the south of France - fishermen, the sea, boats, landscapes, the decoration of peasant houses, the fire burning in the fireplace ... Life itself told him stories. A distinctive feature of the paintings of Christian Jequel is their amazing brightness. Houses illuminated by the sun, lavender fields, peasants working in the field, animals, grape pickers, creative people - all this moves, lives, breathes, bewitches, makes you sink into yourself and become imbued with the mood of the picture ...
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The artist has developed his own manner of palette knitting, his paintings are easily recognizable. Saturated juicy colors convey the mood of people, the beauty of the surrounding nature. The combination of the colors of the sea, lavender, sunlit walls, animals and people in motion - maybe even brighter than in real life, the painter did not regret paints. But all this is written out with such sincere feeling, frankly and directly, that can not leave indifferent as sophisticated connoisseurs of painting, and ordinary spectators. Gradually, Christian Jekel becomes a recognized master of palette knitting. The first personal exhibition of the artist was opened in 1960. Later, paintings by Christian Jequel were selected to participate in the prestigious salon Peintres Temoins de Leur Temps. Later, the artist participated in numerous personal and collective exhibitions and salons both in France and around the world.