Robert Mus

Robert MUS 09/07/1938 Carpentras (Vaucluse) - 06/09/2001 Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône.

Comtadin by birth and heart, Robert MUS, from a merchant and farming family, lived all his life in Saint-Didier, a Provençal village, the "lair" of his ancestors. After secondary studies at the Carpentras college where his taste for drawing and painting was revealed, he experimented as an autodidact in this alongside his job as a farmer. From 1956, the date of his first exhibition at the Chapelle du Collège among the independent painters of the Comtat, until the last posthumous one in his village with his friend Alain GROSAJT, he exhibited regularly in the South Region and beyond. Numerous exhibitions at the Galerie Michel (Carpentras) and the Galerie Lagier (L'isle-sur-la Sorgue). We find in his career significant dates:

● 1973 Festival An 3 Gigondas (Vaucluse)

● 1975 Sénanque Abbey (Vaucluse) ● 1982 René Char Library Museum L'isle-sur-la Sorgue (Vaucluse)

● 1985 Palace of the Popes Avignon (Vaucluse)

The canvases presented were exhibited in 1968 at the Galerie Michel (Carpentras) and mark the transition from figuratism to a “constructed" abstraction where geometry is still present. Drawings, watercolors, oils, collages follow one another over the years in the painter's work. After figurative beginnings marked by cubism and the still lifes of his youth, he evolved towards abstraction, gestural, exploring the resources of transparencies, layers and erasures to obtain effects of materials and movements. Working from small to large format, the work reflects his artistic and literary influences (Picasso, Braque, Matisse, René Char …), as well as the succession of Provençal seasons