Aimé Venel Explained

Aimé Venel
Birth Date:8 May 1950
Birth Place:France
Nationality:French
Field:Painting

Aimé Venel (born May 8, 1950) is a French painter and drawer who focuses on figurative and symbolist style.[1] He creates his own style of figurative arts elegance that primarily lies between symbolist painting and expressionism art, closely related to romanticism (French:Figuration des temps nouveaux).[2] He is a self-taught man whose artwork is influenced by women's beauty.[2] Aimé Venel was a Scientologist for years, before withdrawing from the movement.[3] [4]

Biography

In 1972, Aimé Venel was introduced to Pierre Yves Trémois and thereafter he became Edouard Mac’Avoy's student. Between 1974 and 1978, Aimé Venel was a part of Mac’Avoy's workshop from where he learned his style and mastered his drawing skills.[5] In 1975, he exhibited first personal collection in Barbizon. Between 1986 and 2000 he worked on a huge triptych (12metre by 3metre) called Pour le chant des oiseaux (For the birds song).[6] This artwork was recognized as the road from the spirituality to materialism passing through the aestheticism to pay tribute to the woman.In 2001 he decorated Villa in Miami with some big paintings including Version Paradis (2mx3,90m), Terre Conquise (2metre by 2,70metre) and Aux sources de la musique (diptych, 2metre by 2,7metre). He also worked on another triptych called Biothèque Evolution (81cmx2m) that reflects the evolution of mankind on earth and pays tribute to the scientific research.[7]

Principal work

His principal work is characterized by lyric compositions and some of them are as follows:[8]

Exhibitions

Aimé Venel has participated in following exhibitions.

Awards and recognition

External links

Notes and References

  1. Aimé Venel has found a to become the true heir of the 19th century’s symbolists, Magazine Jours de France, 1982
  2. Mariana Whatelet, A painting that carries the breath of History, Journal Le Wort, October 30, 2004
  3. Méthode Aimé Venel internationale et infiltration de la scientologie, ArtsCad Aimé Venel, Artist Profile, November 20040
  4. http://en.artscad.com/A.nsf/Opra/SRVV-8V7FAZ Aime Venel Biography
  5. https://archive.today/20130802060143/http://www.artistescotes.fr/index.php?Mode=2&id=6470 Artistescotes.fr
  6. Anne Michelle Hamesse, Pour le chant des oiseaux» is an impressive fresco retracing the story of those women, sisters of Mucha and Klimt who became birds. It is a dynamic painting, breathtaking and oneiric., La revue générale, November 10, 2007
  7. http://www.inter-coproprietes.com/jeditoo/france/IleDeFrance/Paris/10eme/canal_St_martin_aime_venel.htm Inter Coproprietes
  8. http://en.artscad.com/A.nsf/P/AimeVenel ArtsCad