Jean-Michel Barrois
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Jean-Michel Barrois

France • 1948

Biography

A few words about my approach and my technique: I work mainly in acrylic, sometimes in oil, on different supports: linen, cotton, aluminum, glass ...., directly placed on the ground; using a selection of tools most of which are made by myself; allowing me to carry out the gestures, textures, tones that I am looking for. My technique is essentially based on speed, the spontaneity of the gesture; the emotion of the moment that I am trying to transcribe. Influenced by the lyrical abstraction of the 1950s, I do not belong to any fashion, current or chapel; I do not claim anything and am free from any system; I love to paint that's all.
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