Le départ (1998) Printmaking by Daniel Mangin

I always loved drawing and painting, but I really got into it only in 1985. Two years of classes at the Beaux-Arts workshops in Paris, frequenting museums and books to learn from the masters (how does he make this rendering? Why did so-and-so choose this path?) and see what my contemporaries do (when they paint, otherwise it's the relevance of the subject that interests me). My favorite technique is oil on canvas, because of the richness of its rendering (the impasto, the transparencies, the slow drying, which allows you to repeat or increase the rendering). My subjects can be classic as well as contemporary, social as well as humorous, caustic, political, borderline, since I claim my total freedom to express what I want and which must come out of my mind.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1957
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists