‘The Beaux-Arts de Paris trains artists. This training - paradoxical and unassignable - could be summed up in one sentence: we train self-taught artists. Students go through the school developing their own vision, practice and tools, experimenting with new intuitions and reproducing old ones, developing friendships and equipping themselves for a future based on their profound desire to expand the field of art. To organise this journey, which can be tumultuous or more secretive, and which touches on existential introspection as well as professional issues, we need to create an educational environment that offre the conditions of possibility and choice for other ways of doing, other ways of seeing, other ways of being to emerge.
The workshop structure responds to this pedagogical defi: it enables groups to be organised around a variety of aesthetic orientations by bringing together students from different levels who participate together in the exploration of a particular artistic territory. The workshop leaders are thus the students' fellow travellers, producing a fertile inter-teaching. Joining us this year are Emmanuel van der Meulen, head of the Painting studio, as well as Chloé Quenum in Tatiana Trouvé's studio and Neil Beloufa in Julien Creuzet's studio.
The workshops are organised in such a way as to allow students to acquire autonomy and develop new uses for a wide range of skills. The predominant place of drawing in the teaching is thus characteristic of the School and of its constant contemporaneity.
This articulation, which aims for autonomy, takes place both in the theoretical field, where it is a question of drawing on the resources of art history, past and present, and also in terms of knowledge that goes beyond the field of art and which is so valuable to artists, whether in the field of science, politics, anthropology, economics, etc. Tristan Garcia joins us as a professor of literature. In all these areas, research is a red fil, more or less visible, which must link them all together. It sought and created its own grammar with the creation of the Research Council.
Today, you are students at this school, which has a history, which is a heritage, and which faces many challenges in the present and for the future, including the state of the buildings and the care that we all need to give to each other, to the works that surround us and to the teams that work alongside you to ensure that your time here is rich, fruitful and unique. Many conversations will begin, continue, be invented and taken up again, always in a spirit of listening, dialogue and respect’.
Alexia Fabre
Director
Jean-Bapstiste de Beauvais
Director of Studies
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