Alain Jacquet  

Alain Jacquet is linked to the New Figuration movement or Figuration narrative. He studied pop art, but was marginalized.

He had no recognition in the US, being far removed from the New Realism in vogue. After a first phase, around 1961, characterized by oil paintings to surfaces organized by large patches of bright colors, not mixtures, juxtapo...

Alain Jacquet is linked to the New Figuration movement or Figuration narrative. He studied pop art, but was marginalized.

He had no recognition in the US, being far removed from the New Realism in vogue. After a first phase, around 1961, characterized by oil paintings to surfaces organized by large patches of bright colors, not mixtures, juxtaposed in a manner both a little loose and gestural, as so many keys macro magnification views, his work goes to series camouflage (1962-1963).

The decisive breakthrough Alain Jacquet is accomplished in the context of Mec-Art, which is one of the major representatives. It appropriates pictures playfully realizing mechanical paintings which let show frame screen printing. Classical works like The Birth Venus in 1961 Luncheon on the Grass in 1964, are masked to give them the appearance of images of advertising and magazines. It uses few colors and takes the frame to create ambiguities.

In 1967, Jacquet declines sculptures in Braille. The point becomes the entity generator. His sculpture La Baratte (1971-1975) provides combinatorial possibilities almost limitless. In 1978, he directed with the help of a computer vision paintings where Earth images undergo strange transformations.