Almond, 2020

Julien Meunie  

Julien was born in 1948 in Vichy, France. He studied art and theater in Clermont-Ferrand at the same time as finishing his degree in French Literature. Continuing with his interest in the movement, in 1979 he joined the dance company L'Atelier Contact de Paris.

With the dancer Didier Silhol they created the courses of Graphism and Dance that combined painting and the dance denominated Contact Improvisation. In 1982 he traveled to Majorca, Balearic Islands, where he consolidated his career as a painter. Fully immersed in the beauty and light of the island, his work concentrated on landscapes, fascinated by the red earth, the Mediterranean blue and white almond blossoms. His search in painting was an ongoing obsession and so the figures appear as motifs (often mythological). His works show a great sense and mastery of color. He was able to use, and he did, many different techniques, such as watercolor, pastel or oil, and during his later years he used acrylic and collage in his creation. Julien was especially known for his great canvases of landscapes, for his marinas and for human figures.