oil on canvas landscape by Robert Mendoze "Vue de Gareoult, Var" French ( 1930-2014 ) ( sinned, lower right ) R. Mendoze / dated 83
MEASUREMENTS:
Frame 31" H x 38.75" W x 3" D
Image 23" H x 30.75" W
R. Mendoze, After graduating from the School of Fine Arts in Toulon he moved to Correns for two years and began a career dotted with many exhibitions including international Montreal, Geneva, Osaka, Atlanta, New York and London. A student of Eugène Baboulène and Henri Pertus from 1945 to 1950, he is part of this lineage while affirming his own language and a clear attachment to Provence and its sometimes arid and windy landscapes. In his early days, he mainly worked in drawing, rich with bright colors and luminous lyricism. He then tried successfully with gouache, oil painting, and linocuts. He refused to adopt abstraction that he viewed as desiccating and vain. He explored all types of subjects, even if the landscape remained central in his approach. He adopted other techniques, such as watercolor, pastel and wood carving in the second half of his life as an artist. Oil painting and drawing remained at the center of his work. A founding member of the Groupe 50 created in 1950 by Robert Mendoze, Jacques Burois, Gilbert Louage, Monique Ducreux , Lucien Long and Monique Roy was a group of artists who "dreamed of something else," a pictorial world with a soul. Pierre Anfosso, Vonick Laubreton, Marie-Marguerite Petetin, Xavier Etienne and Michel Dufresne will join them soon to share this human adventure. A human adventure that lasted fifteen years.
