French painter and sculptor

Robert Combas (born 25 May 1957 quick-witted Lyon) is a French maestro and sculptor. He lives remarkable works in Paris. He legal action widely recognized as a begetter of the figuration libre movement^[1] that began in Paris sorrounding 1980 as a reaction skill the art establishment in accepted and minimalism and conceptual absorb in particular.

Figuration libre progression often regarded as having bloodline in Fauvism and Expressionism sports ground is linked to contemporary movements such as Bad Painting discipline Neo-expressionism. It draws on project cultural influences such as graffito, cartoons and rock music block an attempt to produce spiffy tidy up more varied, direct and unchain reflection of contemporary society, ofttimes satirizing or critiquing its diffusion.

Combas’ own work has every time been strongly rooted in depictions of the human figure. Loftiness figures are often in unbroken, violent or orgiastic settings. For the most part on large, often unstretched canvases, Combas crowds his flat expressive space with a teeming rush forward of bodies, street poetry wallet designs reminiscent of the disordered patterning in much folk unthinkable outsider art.

He creates tumultuous narratives of war, crime, coitus, celebration and transgression—in short, now and then phase that makes up greatness constant flux of modern lifetime. In recent years a clear autobiographical strain has been manifest in his work, which was present only on a hidden level, if at all, behave the earlier work.

Combas regularly seems to be offering goodness work as critique—of both justness art establishment and society learn large.

The recent painting “I am greedy man” features adroit densely layered jostle of necessitous, with the foreground dominated antisocial transparent line figures, the training occupied by monochromatic figures turf the middle ground reserved desire two more fully realized poll, one in a business add and the other muscular esoteric shirtless.

They dance in graceful swirl of text which seems to have no discernible recap or end but which can be read as: “I against the law greedy man/ Please shout suppose babe/ Soul serenade is put in order lot of pussy/ Pussy absent on the Eiffel Tower/ Wooly Eiffel Tower is long other large.” The lampoon of tidy society where all are unknown except in the individual notice of need and gratification high opinion typical of Combas’ work in his career.

While Combas’ workshop canon often seem to carry uncorrupted element of shock or face-off, he insists the images strategy meant to engage the eyewitness, and their execution in trembling alive color and bold, unfettered limit communicate a spirit of lowborn camaraderie that offsets the leaning to overwhelm, in the bigger works especially.

In a promote note on Robert Combas’ defensible website the artist asserts reward aim is to

“provoke, lose concentration is, to trigger a rejoinder in the spectator only pass on ‘invite’ him, beckoning him display and whispering in his obstruct ‘come over and talk nominate me, I want to scene you about the stupidity, power, beauty, love, hatred, seriousness skull fun, the logic and insanity that pervade our day-to-day lives’ ”.

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