![Photography, Incroyable, Bernard Pras](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192961_1_grid.jpg)
Presentation
Having spent part of his childhood in his grand-mother's grocery store, he has developed a strong and privileged relationship with objects and inventories of all sorts. At the crossing of pop art and performance, in-between figuration and ?dis-figuration?, Bernard Pras?s work doesn't leave any viewer indifferent?
A graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse in 1974, Bernard Pras is a virtuoso of the anamorphosis and of the juxtaposition of eclectic objects, carefully chosen to be in resonance with his subjects; he creates an image that is comprehensible from a single, pre-defined point of view. this is the art of the secret perspective that Dürer was talking about?
Christian-Louis Eclimont says of the artist:
"An athlete of the optical effect, Pras moves between the infinitely composite and the infinitely composed, using his eye as a camera that captures the patterns while they are being projected.?"
Giving up his paintbrushes and painting for the hand, the object and a camera, he has been appropriating images of art history and contemporary society since 1998. The color and the stroke become object and the composition - an installation punctuated by dozens of images. Without photography, the installations would remain the privilege of a few, unique spectators of this metamorphosis during which the act of recycling becomes art.
Without this final moment that is the last picture taken, marked by a luminous flash, when the artist transforms the three dimensions in only two for the greatest pleasure of our eyes, Bernard Pras?s work could not exist.
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152 - Van Gogh
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
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90. Le Bon (Clint Eastwood)
Bernard Pras
Photography - 160 x 120 x 5 cm Photography - 63 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$10,066
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210 . BASHUNG (Vertige de l'amour)
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
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109. Guernica
Bernard Pras
Photography - 120 x 280 x 5 cm Photography - 47.2 x 110.2 x 2 inch
$17,895
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Sotigui Kouyaté
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
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256. Van Gogh
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
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185 - We can do it
Bernard Pras
Sculpture - 49 x 64 x 56 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 25.2 x 22 inch
$26,843
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96. Christ de Loudun
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
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Jeune fille à la perle
Bernard Pras
Photography - 160 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 63 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$12,303
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Le vieil homme triste
Bernard Pras
Photography - 160 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 63 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$12,303
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L'empire des sens : hommage au film franco-japonais de Nagisa Oshima
Bernard Pras
Photography - 120 x 160 x 4 cm Photography - 47.2 x 63 x 1.6 inch
$12,303
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Michael Jackson
Bernard Pras
Photography - 160 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 63 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$12,303
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178. Descartes
Bernard Pras
Sculpture - 120 x 80 x 65 cm Sculpture - 47.2 x 31.5 x 25.6 inch
$29,080
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Il était une fois
Bernard Pras
Sculpture - 78 x 66 x 26 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 26 x 10.2 inch
$22,369
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248. Le petit mendiant
Bernard Pras
Sculpture - 150 x 200 x 106 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 78.7 x 41.7 inch
$39,146
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185 - We can do it
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
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226. Pinocchio
Bernard Pras
Sculpture - 100 x 81 x 45 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 31.9 x 17.7 inch
$27,962
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Le Christ de Loudun
Bernard Pras
Photography - 160 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 63 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$12,303
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