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.

Photo credit : Adrien Thibault

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.