Claude Smadja

From his southern and eastern origins, Claude possesses this dual Mediterranean and western culture which is reflected in his achievements. You can feel the sensitivity and the warmth of the south in the artist's curves and arabesques. However, in recent years, Claude Smadja has tended to assert himself by transforming his curves into imposing straight lines. He lets himself be influenced by the evolution of society towards a harsher world. Artists are sensitive transmitters of the world around them. Graphic designer, his eye has been trained in the finesse and details required by engraving. He also defines himself as a chromist. At the end of the 80s, Claude Smadja took an interest in the founders of the Artcloche (Jean Starck, Nicolas Pawlowski, Henri Schurder and other talented artists like Lolochka). He practiced drawing, watercolor, pastel and oil painting, thus accumulating around a hundred works until the 90s. Out of professional necessity, after a break of around twenty years, the painter returned towards painting with a different style since January 2018. He allows himself to be influenced even more by his time which is felt in his work which has evolved and asserted itself chromatically. His strength is to offer in his works a dynamism, a diversity of genre and a chromatic harmony to surprise the imagination of the public.