- Bernard Dumaine
Bernard Dumaine (born
August 20 ,1953 inAngoulême ,France ) is a French artist most well known for his works in thesurrealism andphotorealism styles and for his background designs fortelevision cartoons . He works in a variety of media, including oil paints, acrylic paints, graphite pencil, digital painting, digital collage, and video.Life and Work
He attained his National Fine Arts diploma in
sculpture with a mention fordrawing in 1977. Many single and group exhibitions followed, both locally and internationally. His early work included drawings in the style ofphotorealism and surrealist oil paintings. His surrealist work was influenced byYves Tanguy andMax Ernst .He is currently working mostly in digital media, oil paints, and pencil. He is also doing
Exquisite corpse works in collaboration with many artists internationally, and these collaborative works have recently been exhibited in galleries across France.He currently lives in Angoulême, France with his wife Catherine and children Lucie and Julien.
From Bernard Dumaine's feature in Future Art Magazine: "Imagination and chance have a large place in the creation of my pictures, which are also works of experimentation and research. My favorite part of creating art is the 'stream-of-consciousness' and the discovery of each image as I am working-- I do not know exactly what would appear until I have finished it."
-Bernard DumainePublications
*selected works in "Renderosity: Digital Art for the 21st Century" (2004, Collins Design) by John Grant and Audre Vysniauskas
*selected works in "Metamorphosis" (2006, Jon Beinart)
*"Search 02" in "Issue #1, Dark Recesses Press" (Dark Recesses Press, 2005)External links
* [http://surrealism.free.fr/ Official site]
* [http://bernardumaine.deviantart.com/ Deviant Art site]
* [http://beinart.org/artists/bernard-dumaine/?GID=509 Beinart surreal art collective site]
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