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Jean-Achille
LAURENT was born in 1930 in the Ardennes
in Charleville-Mézières. He begins to
paint from the age of 23 years.
"Essentially
landscape painter, his work is in the
pleasant tradition of
painters of the nature"
In 1979 - Bernard Gauthron - La revue
moderne
Winter
Spring
Summer Autumn
"The
Love of the nature, the tenderness of
the complexions, the discretion in the
invoice
and the know-how in the settling of the
subject, so much quality as Jean-Achille
LAURENT knows how to create with many
virtuosity through harmonious
compositions of a big serenity. A subtle
lighting and a rare precision of the
centring give to Jean - Achille
Laurent's images an intense poetic
delicacy which makes good household with
the postimpressionist painters. "
In february, 1980 - R. Andry - Newspaper Tageblatt - Luxembourg
Tailly
under the snow
Spring to Tailly
Tailly
in Summer
Autumn to Tailly
" Has a dialogue between the sky and the
earth, between trees and gleaming water,
promises of the spring, triumph of the
summer, the homesickness of the autumn,
the grave beauties of the winter, all
this, Jean-Achille LAURENT perceives it
intensely, feels a particular emotion
and translates it in an invoice uniting,
to equal parts, power and sensibility.
As for the palette, it consists of
colours sometimes sensational, sometimes
cold, but their choice always obeys a
will to compose a
tonale
harmony in which, such fundamental will
condition the application of its
additional. "
In july, 1984 - J. Dubois - Revue de
l'Amateur d'Art
" Of every landscape of
Argonne,
ô painter! You make a hymn for the
beauty uniting the soul and the
technique. "
In december 16th, 1985 - Camille Lecrique
- Gallery Létrange
" Which magnificent landscapes, skies in
the light, alive clouds, the moving
snows, the perfection and the love of
the nature exceptional. "
In november, 1985 - Louis Leprince Ringuet -
Gallery Katia Granoff - Place Beauvau -
Paris
" He paints only rigorous winters, icy
autumns, covered with snow landscapes
and floods, but God that its painting is
smiling and brilliant. Mixing very
skillfully the warm tones with the cold
tones, Jean-Achille LAURENT manages to
give to each of his works a completely
particular, even unreal heat and an
emotion. its tiny
ardennais
villages put to sleep under the
snow, crushed by heavens loaded with as
can be it those of an oppressive winter
magnificently consist. "
In march 25th, 1990 - Dominique Campistron -
Newspaper l'Est Républicain
" Always the same delight when ignites
the sky in the sunset: it is an
incredible renewal of the grand,
everything is brilliant,
féérique.
"
In november 25th, 1985 - Y. Masson -
Newspaper
l'Est Républicain - Belfort
" Under Jean - Achille Laurent's
paintbrush, the landscapes of our
bewitching department know how to
preserve their depth, them striking
beauty, their colours and also have this
shape of mystery which seems to wrap our
foggy campaign. "
In
1986 - J-J Rollat - Newspaper L' Union
"
Beyond the image, there is an atmosphere,
a breath, a passion of the artist for
what he creates. By letting drag his
glance in Jean Achille Laurent's tables,
we would almost come to be delighted at
these long winters and if cold who
inspired this lover of the Ardenne. "
In 1986 - Martine Dieudonné - Newspaper L'
Ardennais
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