The only way to become a student at Beaux-Arts de Paris is through the entrance exam. This takes place once a year, in the spring, according to the calendar set by the Director of the School. Anyone who holds the baccalaureate or equivalent diploma, French or foreign, is admitted to compete.
Gilles
Marrey
A painter, draftsman and engraver, Gilles Marrey has been teaching painting at the public courses of Beaux-Arts de Paris since 1996. He is also a lecturer at the Ecole Nationale d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville in the fields of representation and artistic disciplines.
Practicing a pedagogy of explanation and example, he strives to demonstrate that drawing and painting are fruitful processes that allow us to sharpen and broaden our capacities of analysis and perception. Touch, color, drawing, counterforms, painted sketches, light, impasto, context: all technical and sensitive aspects are addressed.
A graduate of Beaux-Arts de Rouen and laureate of the Villa Médicis "Hors les Murs", he regularly exhibits in France, the United States and in French and European Museums and Art Centers.
Photo credit: Adrien Thibault
Cécile
Granier de Cassagnac
Painting with a live model
The practice of Cécile Granier de Cassagnac revolves essentially around watercolor. The inspiration of her work is based on the living (animals, plants, minerals) to better detach itself from it. She develops her plastic language through numerous trips and residencies: residency workshop in partnership with Culture France at the Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, winner of the Yishu 8 prize and residence in Beijing, or residence in Lomé, Togo.
She has been teaching painting at the Beaux-Arts de Paris public courses since 2009. Beyond the teaching of technical basics, she strives to transmit a sensitive perception of the subject allowing her to develop a dreamlike and singular plastic vocabulary.
Graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2007, she has exhibited her work in France, Belgium, the United States and China.
Maryline
Genest
Drawing with a live model, Capturing the fugitive
Maryline Genest, a French painter and graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, explores in her drawings and paintings the notion of the home as a space in perpetual movement, a surge of unpredictable novelties. Her approach is part of a nomadic process, in which she moves around, listens, crosses, looks and adapts, reflecting the fluidity and movement of perceptions and lives.
Her works, imbued with the movements of the body, their gestures-inks, their fabrics-sensations, animal and plant species, play with colours and materials: paper, vegetable inks, illuminations, gouaches, oil paint on wooden logs. She develops strategies, real or fake, that invite us into dreamlike, unsettling tales.
Drawing inspiration from animal mimicry and societal dynamics, Maryline Genest highlights transmission as a vital link to others, a vehicle for personal transformation, enriching the human and creative experience.
Sylvie
Fajfrowska
Sylvie Fajfrowska is a graduate of Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Her work was presented at the Grand-Palais during the first edition of La Force de l'Art, at the exhibition "A century of realism in painting in France" at the MASP in Sao Paulo and at MARGS in Porto Allegre. The SPSI Museum in Shanghaï, the National Galleries of the Tapestry of Beauvais, the Cultural Institute of Macao, the Palace of the Popes in Avignon have also exhibited his works. Her paintings are in public collections in France and abroad (FNAC, FRAC Ile-de-France, FRAC Franche-Comté, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden...).
Professor of drawing after a living model at the New Academy for Amateurs, her teaching is based on morphology, apprehending the body through simple forms in order to succeed in positioning it in space and finding the right proportions. Several techniques are approached (graphite, charcoal, pastel, wash, feather...) so that each student finds his/her tools and develops his/her drawing with artistic and personal qualities. Notions of perspective, morphology, scale and composition are also developed. It offers various exposure times: during quick exposures, the aim is to capture the movement spontaneously, on long exposures the construction is corrected and the drawing is gradually developed.
Michel
Gouéry
A resident of the Villa Medici in Rome in 1986, Michel Gouéry has been a living model drawing teacher at the public Beaux-Arts de Paris classes since 1994.
A lecturer at the Centre Pompidou from 1988 to 2009, he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad. His teaching method focuses particularly on observation, plumbing, triangulation and comparison of contiguous forms. By approaching elements of perspective he teaches his students to draw in space the model and the objects that accompany it. He encourages his students to use different techniques (pencils, pens, brushes, charcoals) while leaving them a great deal of freedom.
Photo credit: Adrien Thibault
Antoine
Bénard
Painting with a live model
Born in 1963, Antoine Bénard graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1989.
He lectured at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume from 1991 to 1993 and at J. Dubuffet's "Tour aux Figures" from 1992 to 1998. He published a Manuel de l'anthropoïdo-centrisme in 1998 as well as a collection of prints, Les neuf vies du grand hibou in 2012. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in France.
A professor of painting with a live model at Beaux-Arts de Paris, his teaching revolves around the difference between representation and figuration. Instead of thinking of the model as a subject of representation, the aim is to consider the model as an object of the gaze. For Antoine Bénard, to see is to receive the visible, rather than to judge it in a will of control, it is then necessary to act on paper only to testify of a seizure of the form in front of oneself, allowing the construction of a singular figure.
Photo credit: Adrien Thibault
Studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris is both an opportunity and a challenge. An opportunity because throughout your studies you will have access to numerous resources, from the teaching of professors who are mostly artists to the school's historical collections, theoretical instruction, technical expertise and equipment, with the support of an administrative and logistical team at your service, enabling you to chart your own unique path.
"Après les réseaux sociaux", an association founded by Allan Deneuville, a 2019 graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Gala Hernández López and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, received the 2020 Dream big and grow fast / Fondation de France Foundation Prize, an aid for collective projects by students or graduates of the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
"Après les réseaux sociaux" (After social networks), a research and creation association, aims to reflect on the practices of appropriation of content generated by users of social networks in contemporary artistic creations.
Claudio Beorchia, Hot Poem, 2020
Claudio Beorchia, Hot Poem, 2020
Victoire Inchauspé and Emma Passera, students at the Beaux-Arts de Paris are winners of the Carte Blanche étudiants 2020, a Picto Foundation programme.
The Dunes
