Stephane Pruvot

Biography

My father painted when he was young and worked as a photoengraver, but I think he was never really an artist but rather a craftsman, in fact he also likes painting ;popular art and was an apprentice in photoengraving at a very young age. I was immersed in this environment, throughout my adolescence, I would come home from school to my father's office, and I would see him working. My mother was a leader for a theater group for children in an association in her town. When I was young, I was able to make music and draw early. With my brother we bought our first computer in 1980 it was a Sinclaire with 8 kilobytes of RAM, my first drawings I made with a TO7 70 (Thomson brand computer), with a stylus on the #039;screen. Afterwards I had an Amiga computer which I found at the School of Plastic Art in Cergy Pontoise. I really started painting after failing my Baccalaureate and taking lessons with the American painter Mildred Thomson in 1985. My current work and the reinterpretation of digital images that I find on the Internet or networks social (I also sometimes take digital photos). I have my color code; always the same color palette, which also allows me, I hope, to be recognized. I work with a mouse, I don't look for detail, and I prefer flat colored areas, it was Matisse who gave me this desire, with his cut-out gouache papers.

Influences

Andy Wharol, David Hockney, matisse

Education

The artist at work