Marc-Antoine Goulard
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Biography
Marc-Antoine Goulard is a French American artist, born in 1964 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, who defends abstract lyric painting. He began his career as a classical musician then as a painter. He lives between ParisParis
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, London
London
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et New-York.
Musician
Marc-Antoine Goulard learned the piano from the age of 4 years old then start to played the flute at 9 years old. He studied the flute and composition at the conservatory of music of Rueil-Malmaison then graduated with honor at the conservatory in Paris to become a concertist.Marc-Antoine arrived in America in 1985 to take up the saxophone and continued his studies in jazz composition at the prestigious Berklee college of Music . However while music, with its foundation of tone and composition, provided him the means for expression, it would ultimately be in painting that Goulard found his creative voice.
Painter
Marc-Antoine Goulard discovered painting in May 1988 and received a residency at the Josef AlbersJosef Albers
Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century....
and Anni Foundation in Bethany, Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
.
Art critic Nicholas Fox Weber, biographer and director of an art foundation, he recognized the quality of Marc-Antoine Goulard's visual work and published in September 2008 the catalogue " raisonné " of his paintings.
The social platform Saatchi Online exhibit the creative envinroment and portfolio of Marc-Antoine Goulard.
Among many galleries Marc-Antoine Goulard's paintings are permanently showed at the following ones: Gallery William Turner in Los Angeles, galerie Brissot (rue de Verneuil) Paris, gallery Ruth Morpeth in New Jersey
, gallery Cynthia Drennon in Santa Fe and the gallery Cynthia Corbett in London.
His monotypes are printed and published with the Editions Jacques Berville in Arpaillargues.
He has been chosen as the French artist for the cultural year France - Russia 2010.
Marc-Antoine Goulard has also been the patron in 2005 for the association "Tous les enfants ont des droits" where his paintings have been disseminate at the Sénat (France).
See also
- History of paintingHistory of paintingThe history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, and spanning continents and millennia, the history of painting is an ongoing river of...
- Lyrical AbstractionLyrical AbstractionLyrical Abstraction is either of two related but distinctly separate trends in Post-war Modernist painting, and a third definition is the usage as a descriptive term. It is a descriptive term characterizing a type of abstract painting related to Abstract Expressionism; in use since the 1940s...
- Abstract expressionismAbstract expressionismAbstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris...
Further reading
- Berklee College of MusicBerklee College of MusicBerklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...
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