Jean-Pierre Ducouret, artist of the 21st century, who exhibited this spring in Pujols, with which he is in love and where he has many friends, is indeed an artist of his time who knew how to explain his art to his visitors. Indeed, following studying at the Beaux-Arts and then a degree in Art History, he began to paint in 1967, a series of gouaches with a cubist look. Then he turned to abstract painting with acrylic paint, sometimes mixed with pastel. Then pastel became his main technique for several years, always in search of movement and light and, following having also experimented with gouache with more or less abstract paintings evoking a marine atmosphere, he ended up adopting oil painting. the oil. What is his inspiration? “I let myself be guided by the invisible hand of uncertainty and randomness, explains Jean-Pierre Ducouret.
His public might see that the paintings presented at Pujols are marked by the liberation of color, shapes and, above all, the figurative. Audacity and chromatic research characterize the work of Jean Pierre Ducouret who freed himself from academic shackles so as not to represent reality: he “abstracted” himself from it. His art therefore focuses on colors and their harmony with each other and he often feels drawn to painting “series” in oil paint evoking “imaginary landscapes”.
Remember that abstract art was born at the beginning of the 20th century. The artistic landscape of the time consisted mainly of Fauvism, Cubism and Expressionism. Around 1910 abstract art appeared with the “First abstract watercolor” by Vassily Kandinsky who said: “abstract art concentrates on colors and shapes. It is freed from the usual subjects or objects of the outside world.” From there, appear different painters with varied styles, such as Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock and many others, each bringing his very personal touch to the definition of abstraction. In Pujols, Jean Pierre Ducouret showed his own style and he was very much appreciated.
