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Artist Index >> Charvet
Christian Charvet was born in 1940, in Paris. Charvet teaches design and painting in primary schools in France.
Since 1970 he has frequently exhibited his paintings—showing in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad. He is part of the “Painters du Marais” group in Paris.
Main Exhibitions:
1994 Town Museum of Colmar (Region Alsace). Winner of the ‘Contemporary Art’ Prize;
1995 Arts and Culture Centre, Motnargis (in the Paris surroundings);
2002 Regional Contemporary Art Center, Grenoble (Region Rhone-Alps);
1994 La Table d’Emeraude Gallery, Monaco
1996-97 Charvet took part in the Bazart European Tour, in Lyon, Toulouse, Paris, Nantes and Marseille;
1998 Henriette Groll Center, Sassenage;
1999 Participation in the Bazart European Tour in Berlin,
Amsterdam, Barcelona and London.
2001 ArtExpo New York, NY
2002 ArtExpo New York, NY
2003 ArtExpo New York, NY
Christian Charvet’s style has evolved through three main periods:
1970 – 1980 Blue Period –The colour scheme was monochromatic. It offered an inner thought space to a lonely subject, in its primary form.
1980 – 1990 Blue periods’ continuation – The subject was no longer solitary. Social groups appear, represented within the carnival theme. The color is still monochromatic and cool. “The universe is being closed”.
1990 – 2000 Red Period – The tone changes. Red color appears on the paintings (it existed previously, but behind the Blue tones). A series of studies on painters and poets initiated travels to the Middle East. Beginning in 1994, Charvet studied Arthur Rimbaud, a poet in Harare. This poet was an inspiration for the composition of Charvet’s pieces. The Red is strong; the style gains purity, becomes synthetic, and keeps the essential thing only. The troubled period in Arthur Rimbaud’s life is sublimated by high colors.
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