Michel Bellec (1931-1996) - Breton School - "church View" Oil On Canvas Signed 53 X 63 Cm

Michel Bellec (1931-1996) - Breton School. "Church view" Oil on canvas signed lower right 53 x 63 cm. Michel BELLEC was born on June 9, 1931. It was at the nursery school on rue Brochant in Paris that he created his first works. A student at the Collège Technique Estienne (book arts and crafts), he studied drawing and chromolithography in the workshop of Georges Capon. Offset retoucher, graphic designer, advertising then artistic director in different advertising agencies in Paris, he ended up creating his own studio “Quadrature”. In 1965, he left to devote himself solely to painting. Over the years, his research becomes more and more stripped down, freeing itself from the usual references. There are no longer, for the eye, the traps of beauty. In his paintings, his gouaches, his drawings, his watercolors, he expresses his wounds, his quest for love, his hopes, his joy... "The talented scribbler", "the refined boor", "the pagan mystic" as he defined himself as “gave everything to the sun, everything except its shadow”. The violence of his paintings – an exercise in balance between reasoned analysis and the captivating appeal of a dizzying void – contrasts with the delicacy and fragility of his watercolors. Some are necessary as an antidote to the others. Presented in various biennials and official fairs, his works are present all over the world. It is in his gallery-studio in Barbizon that he will hold his latest exhibitions. On July 19, 1996, he climbed to a summit from which he never came down, remaining among us for eternity because as he liked to say: “an artist does not die, he remains hanging on a nail”.