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Jean-Claude Picot
Since 1956, Jean Claude Picot has been a full-time professional artist. He has seriously studied the works of the Fauvist masters Vlaminck, Derain and Matisse. He has developed a unique style that recalls a Post-Impressionist application of color combined with the expressive qualities of line. The world of his art is often one of a happy reflection on relaxation, and personal "joie de vivre." Picot captures the animation, romance and essence of the landscape. Since 1947 he has exhibited in over 25 one-person shows throughout the world including exhibitions in the United States, Belgium, Norway and Australia. His work abounds with natural beauty and breathtaking views charged with the unique light of the Mediterranean. Picot works in a Post-Impressionist manner reducing flowers, trees, houses and figures to their essential forms. In reviews of Picot's most recent solo shows in Paris, Bordeaux and Oslo, the critics cited the affinities between the masters of the turn-of-the century Impressionism and early Twentieth Century Fauvism and the 61-year-old French artist, thus beginning to place his work in the art history of important French landscape painters.
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