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.

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.

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Antoine

Bénard-Niore

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.

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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.

Laurent

Okroglic

Drawing with a live model

Artist for whom drawing has been at the heart of his approach since his studies, Laurent Okroglic develops a project that combines research, design and formalization. The versatility of his favorite medium, drawing, allows him to approach different registers of forms and thus inscribe the artistic practice at different levels: video animation, large format work, graphic painting, comic book and artist's book.

Graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris with the congratulations of the jury in 2000, member of the Casa Velàzquez from 2000 to 2002, he has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in galleries in Paris, Berlin and Belgrade. Professor of drawing of Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2006, he develops a quality pedagogical relationship with the public: dialectic, exchange, reflection and experimentation. Beyond the transmission of the plastic tools, it is a philosophy of the glance which is invited in the exchange. The expertise as well as his individual approach offer to his speech the performativity in the realization of the student.

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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.

François

Mendras

François Mendras was born in 1962, he lives in Paris. He is a graduate of Beaux-Arts de Paris.

His works have been presented at the Fondation Cartier, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Toulouse, the Palais des Congrès in Paris, the Centre d'Art Contemporain du Creux de l'Enfer in Thiers, the Museum of Boulogne, and the Fiac. They are present in several public collections such as the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain or the Frac d'Ile-de-France and Auvergne.

He teaches live model drawing at the New Academy for Amateurs of Beaux-Arts de Paris. His teaching emphasizes observation, so that the student learns to situate a form in the middle of others, to simplify it in order to be able to read it, memorize it and finally reproduce it by going from three to two dimensions. He tackles the questions of proportions, shortcuts, rendering of light and space, but also contemporary artistic questioning by referring to works of today as well as those of the past.

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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.

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Maja

Wisniewska

Maja Wisniewska was born in 1973 in Lodz, Poland. She lives and draws in Paris.

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland, she graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2002 with unanimous congratulations from the jury. In 2011, she presented a solo exhibition at the Laurence Esnol Gallery, Paris and has since participated in two numerous group exhibitions.

She teaches anatomy for beginners and morphology for students who already have good knowedge in drawing at the New Academy of Amateurs of Beaux-Arts de Paris.