Simon Blow
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Biography
Born in Paris to parents who were both painters and professors at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Simon was raised in an academic artistic environment from an early age. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris with excellent grades and became a painter. He studied traditional painting and techniques deeply and broadly. He is also well-versed in painting, literature, and philosophy, and his culture and refined sensibility create the world of Simon Braut. Simon Braut's paintings are unlike anyone else's. Each of his paintings is a story. He paints the central motif of that story. It could be the poetry of Rimbaud or Baudelaire, or Camus or Sartre. European painting after the Renaissance and French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries have matured in the 21st century in the talented painter Simon Braut. His outstanding talent, culture, and outstanding painting skills create 21st century French literature and painting art with colors, shapes, and lines.
Biography
Born in Paris in 1970
1992-1999 Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris
DNAP Diplome National d'Art Plasticique National Diploma in Plastic Arts
DNSEP Diplome National Superieur d'Expression Plastique
1998～ Atelier du Grenier a Sel-Orleans
Short-term study abroad in Prague, Scotland, Africa, London, Florence, and Glasgow
2004 Grand Prix at the Independent Exhibition
2004 Conseil Generale Award winning work (Purchased and stored by Conseil Generale)
2004 Honorary Invited Artist of the Legion Centre Salon des Indépendants
2005: Received the Orleans City Prize (the work was purchased and put into the collection of the city of Orleans)
2005: Honorary guest artist at the Salon du Grenier à Celle
2007 Taylor Foundation Grand Prize Winner
2007: Appointed as Artistic Advisor to the City of Olivet
2010: Winner of the Dumas-Miller Prize from the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institut de France
2012: Winner of the Peyron Prize from the Academy of Fine Arts of the French Academy of Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions
Galerie Bastide Orléans Museum of Fine Arts Gallery 17 Gallery Elissad, Gallery Château Simiane, Galerie Adeka...etc
Collection
Centre Contemporary Art Foundation
Nantes Academy of Fine Arts Museum
Taylor Foundation
Paris Academy Museum
Museum of the French Academy of Fine Arts
Orléans Academy Museum
R. Laurent Bert Foundation
Auberge Contemporary Art Foundation
......etc
Simon Brault describes his background in knowledge and beauty as follows: "I grew up in my parents' studio, smelling the aroma of terrapin oil, listening to their conversations about painting, looking at their paintings, watching them paint and wash their brushes. There are many painters who influenced me. Nicolas de Stael, Braque, Matisse, and Dufy are the definitive ones. Braque's stoic strictness and Dufy's freedom are wonderful. Bosch, Ucero, Fra Filippo, Holbein, and Durer are painters that I would like to mention first. I often read books on philosophy and science. Time spent immersed in philosophical books is like playing in paradise and brings peace to the mind. Science is an exercise that exercises a different part of the brain. Both are comfortable. But the act of painting is ultimately about expressing myself.
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