The innovative artist paints luscious and bold paintings, combining several styles at once: Jeannette Guichard-Bunel

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In the modern world of painting, creative experiments are constantly going on. And since the culture of performance always requires something new and unusual, artists embody the most incredible ideas in their works, combining different styles, sometimes even incompatible ones. And today in our publication is a bright and stunning gallery of paintings by one of the most successful artists in innovative art. Her name - Jeannette Guichard-Bunel … It seems that the juicy and bold paintings, echoing the styles of the last century and consonant with our time, will impress and leave few people indifferent.

Jeannette Guichard-Bunel is a contemporary French artist, whose paintings were exhibited with great success at the 68th Cannes Film Festival, in the leading galleries of the world and in exhibition halls she works in the popular trends of the last century: surreal, pop art and pin -ap. At the same time, she “deliciously” spices up the mix of styles with the “oil glacis” technique, which makes it possible to create multi-layered and multi-layered paintings.

By combining the seemingly incompatible into a single whole, Jeannette created her own unique author's style, which evokes nostalgia in some, unforgettable impressions of an excursion into the past for others, and admiration for a new look at fine art for others.

In his paintings, Guichard-Bunel very boldly uses recognizable images of pin-up style, pop art, comics, combining them with surreal compositional and spatial techniques.

A bit of the history of the artistic directions used

1. Surrealism. This trend in art, which developed in the 1920s in the artistic culture of Western avant-garde, when some artists began to present to the public the world in a distorted form in comparison with the real one. Combining reality, dreams and fantasies, they carried viewers on a journey through their paintings, which were like a dream.

2. Pin-up. And if the concept of "surrealism" is on everyone's lips, then the concept of "pin-up" is not so widespread and, therefore, I would like to dwell on this style in more detail. Pin-up - translated from English to pin or pin. More broadly, this concept is interpreted as follows - a poster pinned on the wall. As a rule, it depicts a beautiful, often half-naked girl in a flirty or sexy pose. This is a model whose reproduced images have become an iconic phenomenon of Western pop culture since the middle of the last century.

Although the term “pin-up” was first used in the 1940s, its initial practical use dates back to the 19th century. This style can be traced back at least to the 1890s, when pictures for pinning were cut from magazines and newspapers. Often, such images were printed in calendars designed to be pinned to the wall.

But by the middle of the 20th century, posters painted in a frivolous style began to be released on purpose. The replicated image of a sex symbol subsequently began to be used for advertising purposes. However, pin-up images were largely works of art, often depicting an idealized version of exactly how a beautiful or attractive woman should look.

3. Pop Art … This art movement, which originated in the mid-1950s in Great Britain, and then migrated to the United States and became the most widespread there. Pop art became a daring challenge to traditional painting, as artists relied on images intended for popular culture, including advertisements, comics, everyday objects and news.

About multilayer oil glacis technique

And now about the main thing, about what unites almost all the works of the French artist, about her inventive technique - "oil glacis", due to which her works are deeply spatial. On the one hand, they are light thanks to the use of pastel shades and the illusion of translucent images. On the other hand, the paintings are bright and very colorful, which is created due to the rich, catchy poster paints that migrated into the artist's painting from the above artistic directions.

It should be noted that the oil glacis technique used is very laborious and at the same time very effective. It is she who allows you to achieve the illusion of the depth of space in painting through layers of transparency. For this, the artist uses various stencils and a special device for spraying paint - an airbrush. It should be noted that this effect cannot be achieved by other methods. Therefore, it was this artistic technique that became the basis for most of Jeannette Guichard-Bunel's paintings.

She is not afraid of color, trying all kinds of color combinations and attracting the viewer's attention with flashy local colors. Creative freedom is given to the artist by maneuvering between different styles that merge together in her painting. But the most striking are the paintings that use the style of pop art by Roy Lichtenstein, where Jeannette also uses her special method of translucent image, making it deeply multi-layered. Behind the top layer, we see how through the heavy fog we see images that are calmer, close to the pin-up style.

And finally, her figurative style, emphasized by pin-up and pop art, is original and recognizable thanks to the skillful combination of figurative presentation of elements of surrealism, which echoes symbolism, poetry and humor.

About the artist

Artist Jeannette Guichard-Bunel was born in 1957 in Cherbourg (France). From early childhood, she had an interest in painting. Having received an art education in 1986, she became a professional artist. Today Jeannette Guichard-Bunel lives on the coast of Artprice artists, where she hones her professionalism, experimenting with different styles.

Jeannette is a member of the House of Artists, a member of the Society of Graphic and Plastic Arts Authors, she is a member of the National Academy of Fine Arts. The artist has achieved great results in the field of contemporary art. Her works are currently presented in the best French galleries in Paris, Versailles, Grenoble, Avranches, as well as in foreign countries - Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary.

Summing up the above, I would like to say that every artist, first of all, creates an illusion. He literally makes the viewer believe that on a simple canvas, lovers confess their feelings to each other, or that the walls of Pompeii are about to collapse, as well as many other ideas of the author. Jeannette Guichard-Bunel also creates illusions in her own way. It makes the audience believe that the canvas is multidimensional. The play of colors is hidden in the depths, and on the surface, a thin or brightly painted veil covers the main image. She prefers reasoning so that the viewer can analyze and go beyond the visible.

By the way, Jeannette is not the first to use pin-up and pop art in her work. Many modern masters experiment with various styles and directions. Find out from our publication: How a Russian artist crossed an American pin-up and a Soviet propaganda poster, and what came of it.