Project Description

Watercolor

Dimensions: 23 cm x 30,8 cm

Signed lower left : P.F Gorse
Located : Porquerolles and dated : 8/8/75

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Pierre-François Gorse (1945 – 2011)

Pierre-François Gorse attends the Fine Arts of Algiers (1960) then those of Paris where he follows the workshops of Maurice Brianchon and Gustave Singier.
His landscape paintings, including marines (bateaux, beaches, skies, birds), express unbridled and joyful vitality. Warm colors, wild beasts, removed color rhythms called “sensation-forms” by the Bénézit dictionary.

Jean-Pierre Delarge describes the painter as abstract in the vein of Bram Van Velde” whose “modulated plates become shimmering landscapes by grouping rounded shapes and verticals or diagonals.”

Architecture

Throughout his career, Pierre-François Gorse intervenes in architecture with mosaics or monumental frescoes :

Decorative fresco in the Sevran ZUP (1972)

Ceiling of the La Baratte school group, Nevers (1980)

Frescoes for the Albert Camus school group in Chezy, Your (1981) and the Pont-Audemer high school (1982), just to name a few.

Expositions

He also produces numerous personal exhibitions (Gallery of France (1969), Bordeaux Radio House (1971), cultural center of Meudon (1973), Avoriaz Tourist Office (2005) but also collective (Salon of the French School at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (1969), May Salon (1975), Franco-Tunisian week, Sousse (1986).

Public collections : FRAC – Pays de la Loire, Carquefou

Sources : wikipedia

The wave of the lonely - March 2012 – Charles Maisonnisse - Le Monde http://charlesmaisonnisse.blog.lemonde.fr/tag/pierre-francois-gorse/

Painter, superb colorist and watercolorist of genius

“in the Eye of Solitaire notebooks. When I say “genius watercolorist”, I’ve rarely seen a painter use this medium so lightly, of speed, about, brief of mastery that Pierre-François Gorse.

Of course we see watercolor coming back in fashion lately in the contemporary galleries of the Marais, or rather watercolor because it is oil or acrylic that artists use a lot in this way to give a kind of “patina of spontaneity” to their works with a style that is highly premeditated, but with Gorse, Nothing of the sort, no fuss “contemporanéisant”, nothing but paint and real.

In the Wikipedia article, I found the quote from this reviewer : “The painting of Pierre-François Gorse literally noise of colors and sensations. In the given surface are most often inscribed both the original pattern and the variations it entails.. (Bruno Foucart, Prism Fires.”).

And in fact, Gorse's compositions are built from this vibrant touch, soft, watchful, trying to bring up the subject without looking at the navel, what Foucart calls ” the original pattern and the variations it entails” and which is actually the internal life of the painting.

A living painting

SO, alive like the music of a Petrucciani, a bit wonky but so original and lively that his quirkiness becomes the greatest of his qualities.

In the manner of de Staël or Matisse, Gorse is one of those lovers of color, one of his worthy spokesperson, working tirelessly to go as Staël wrote so poetically, ” until the end of his heartbreak, until their tenderness.” Tears : there is something about Gorse that tears the silence, crying, who sings loudly. Something about the innocence of a little four-year-old boy who leaves and drifts in hysterics and joyful gossip.

Another sentence by de Staël to characterize the painting of Gorse and the artist himself : “All my life, I needed to think about painting (…), to paint to help me live, to free myself from my impressions, of all the feelings, from all the anxieties to which I have found no other way out than painting.”

Little recognized during his lifetime, although collected by many amateurs, the painting of Pierre-François Gorse will know I hope a beautiful posterity »

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