Bernard Dumaine
Bernard Dumaine (born August 20, 1953 in Angoulême, France) is a French artist best known for his work in photorealism styles and for his background designs for television cartoons. He works in a variety of media, including oil paints, acrylic paints, graphite pencil, digital painting, digital collage, and video.
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[edit] Life and work
He got his National Fine Arts diploma in sculpture with a mention for drawing in 1977. Many single and group exhibitions followed, both locally and internationally. His early work included drawings in the style of photorealist and surrealist oil paintings.
He is currently working mostly in digital media, oil paints, and pencil. He is also doing Exquisite corpse works [1] in collaboration with many artists internationally,[2] and these collaborative works have recently been exhibited in galleries across France.[3]
[edit] Exhibitions
"32 bit Connection" - Museumsquartier (MQ), Vienna - Austria (2004) [4]
International Surrealist Show 2006 - Spencer , Iowa [5]
Energy Art Salon 2010 - Chicago, USA [6]
"Troyart" - Museu Brasileiro da Escultura - Sao Paulo (2011)[7]
Collettiva Surrealista "Linguaggi d'Arte" (2011) - Floridia, Italy [8]
[edit] Publications
- selected works in Renderosity: Digital Art for the 21st Century (2004, Collins Design) by John Grant and Audre Vysniauskas
- Search 02 in Issue #1, Dark Recesses Press (Dark Recesses Press, 2005)
- selected works in Metamorphosis (2006, Jon Beinart)
- selected work in Imagine The Imagination : new visions of Surrealism (2009, nEgoist Sp.z.o.o.)
- selected work in Visionary Art Yearbook (2010, edited by Otto Rapp)
- " Miximages " 80 Exquisite corpses in pencils (Blurb, 2010, ISBN 978-2-9538353-0-4 )
- selected works in Anarchy Mag, Issue #70/71 (Freedom press, 2011)
- selected works in Rebirth of the exquisite corpse (2011, ISBN 978-1-4476-6398-0) by Anthony Mason
- selected works in Collaborative Corpse Yearbook 2010-2011 (2011, Blurb) by George Teseleanu
- selected works in Eco-Ar-Te para o reencantamento do mundo by SATO, Michèle (Org.) São Carlos: RiMa & Cuiabá: FAPEMAT, 2011
[edit] Notes
- ^ ]http://www.sito.org/cgi-bin/egads/showart?show=bdu.0063&idonly=BDU
- ^ http://www.charentelibre.fr/2010/12/04/les-cadavres-exquis-de-bernard-dumaine,1009910.php
- ^ http://beinart.org/art-news/2007/07/10/dumaines-exquitite-corpse-exhibition/
- ^ http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2004/05/28/32079.html
- ^ http://www.surrealogic.com/show.html
- ^ http://www.energyartmovement.org/projects/salon-2010/
- ^ http://toymube.blogspot.com/search/label/Bernard%20Dumaine
- ^ http://www.prolocofloridia.it/la-notte-bianca/61-collettiva-surrealistaqlinguaggi-darteq-
