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Nolan-Rankin Galleries (NRG)
Nolan-Rankin Galleries,
Houston, Texas is pleased to present these artist from the
Ecole de Paris and French school of European art.
Paintings
Nolan-Rankin Galleries presents paintings by artist from the
Ecole de Paris (School of Paris) painters and other contemporary
painters and sculptors from the French School.
Paul Ambille 1930 - 2010
As an official "Painter of the Marine" juries have awarded Ambille
an incredible forty gold medals and grand prizes including the
prestigious Grand Prix de Rome. He has earned his place as one
of the most internationally acclaimed painters of our time.
Paul
Anderbouhr 1909 - 2006
He was given an unprecedented 17 one-man exhibitions by the
prestigious Galerie Durand-Ruel guaranteeing his place as the master
of "plein air" painting.
Elisabeth Calmes
Her media pieces are variations on specific themes reflecting her
travels and experiences of the recent past with landscapes of Paris,
Turkey, Naples, Greece and Venice, to intimate interiors of
recitals, the studios and everyday life. The results are a
rich and varied palette with energy from the same hand approaching
such a wide array of subjects.
Marie-Amelie Choi
Originally trained in classical ballet and the arts, Choi continues
to apply her controlled technique to poignant still lifes':
Small corners of her imagination.
Conchita Conigliano
Color ...vibrant color and masterly use of stroke define gesture and
form distinguishing her works among those of the colorist painters.
Christian Dalibert
A delicate use of color and pattern create intimate portraits of
subjects from interior to sunlit landscapes of Provence with the
sense of the "storyteller" ever present.
Claude Frégère
His "expressionistic" works are alive with energy and motion.
He paints with an instinctual freedom present in all of his diverse
subjects.
Monique Journod
An acclaimed winner of the Prix de Rome, hers is a world of a living
garden, filled with color, light and above all beauty.
Michele Lellouche
One finds a freedom from the strict figurative nature of her work
toward the semi-abstract, bursting with color and animation; a sense
of joy and liberation of the artist.
Antonio Loro, PHD.
From his Venetian roots one feels the depth of emotion in each of pieces.
Based on classical training, he departs with controlled
expressionism to broaden the impact and connection to the observer.
The layering of tone upon tone of color enhances each piece with a
patina that draws one ever closer.
William Michaut
Utilizing a forced perspective, you the viewer, are always present
in his bold and colorful images of interiors and gardens.
Michel-Henry
Color, bold and pure, have marked the canvases for decades.
His distinguished exhibitions from New York to Tokyo have earned him
the distinction as master of the floral painting.
Marcel Mouly 1918 - 2008
Bold, brilliant, luminous color ...always color and light,
distinctively hi won, earning him an international following and
presence in over twenty museums. From his early work with
Lipschitz and l'Hôte, his works have
distinguished him among his peers.
Pierre Neveu
Composition is always foremost in his paintings. It is this
stability which frees him to utilize and explore the brilliant
"jewel tone" colors in all of his paintings.
Daniel Pignot
The landscape, when approached by this contemporary "impressionist",
is alive with the same light and atmosphere which has distinguished
the "School of Paris" for nearly a century.
Pierre Pivet
Colours are of primordial importance in Pivet's work. The
different chromatic tones he has retained from the Fauvist period
contribute to the construction of image frames that fragment the
canvass surface. Here, light assumes its full dimension and almost
becomes the very breath of the work. In painting after painting we
find these luminous gaps where light springs forth to caress forms
and endow them with an active presence. In his recent works, light
emanates directly from the forms rather than the other way around,
giving the paintings an interior quality, a density of expression
that go far beyond the subject matter that is evoked. Through his
painting, Pivet offers us both the right and wrong sides of a
reality that has yet to be grasped.
Jules Arbec (from Guide Parcours, Canadian art magazine)
Jose Salvaggio
Salvaggio first attended the Art school of Paris along side Paul Anderbouhr,
then the school of Emilie Simon where he met Claude Marin.
Salvaggio's plein -air paintings
Michel Sarazin
Michel Sarazin loves life. This is probably the pattern (in both
senses of the term: representation and rationale) of his painting.
Indoor scenes and / or outside, fabric patterns, places, still other
places, suites of rooms, we guess a body, an angel passed, the blue
of the morning ... Yes, we think Matinaux, Rene Char. Joy of the
morning. These square format like the windows of our childhood are
so many holes through which light can be a passage to us: life
bursts forth like a pirouette of a child with these signs are both
simple and complex, both It is true that Michel Sarazin defies label
that would put him once and for all in one box.
Laurent Contamin, 2002.
Playwright, a contributor to France Culture
Marko Stupar
Always presented in a rich "caramelized" palette, there is a quiet
solitude in his work. A solitude not of loneliness, but as an
observer: An observer of life.
Renee Théobald
Her strokes of the palette knife are bold and clean revealing pure,
crisp color. The works have delighted collectors since her
first one-women show at the prestigious De Young Museum.
Nelly Trumel
Displays a remarkable technique. Her still lifes' pass beyond
mere representation, taking on a reality of their own.
Gretchen Van Atta Loro
The color pencil medium is ideally suited to her work. She has
an intimacy with the subject which achieves an artistic reality
showing an underlying comprehension.
Nicolas Watine
Of course the paintings are serene, crisp and clean, almost
draftsman like, but ever present is that small element of the
surreal, a playful reality to delight, not to distress.
Sculpture
Sculpture Artists' represented by Nolan-Rankin Galleries
Biographies
Nolan-Rankin Galleries
is proud to represent award-winning artists such as the
Grand Prix de Rome, the Fondation Taylor as well as Gold,
Silver and Bronze Medals from the Salon des Artistes
Français and the Salon d'Automne to name just a few.
Lecture Series
On-going Lecture Series present at Nolan-Rankin Galleries, Houston,
Texas.
Calendar of Events
Openings, special events and exhibitions at Nolan-Rankin Galleries.
Contact
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Nolan-Rankin Galleries.
L'Ecole de Paris
A brief history of the "School of Paris", as presented by
Nolan-Rankin Galleries at the University of Southern Illinois at
Carbondale.
FAQ
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Information
Links
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the French art movement.
Photo Gallery
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Press
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