Jean-Michel Folon
La Pensée
Ceramic
edited by Art 204
Year of work: 1981
Signed by artist lower right
Draw of 150 numbered copies
Size: 29.5 x 51.2 in.
(75 cm x 130 cm)
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About
About Jean-Michel Folon
Jean-Michel Folon is a Belgian artist, born March 1, 1934 in Uccle, near Brussels and died October 20, 2005 in Monaco, in his 71 years.
He has worked on many materials and created in various forms: watercolor, printmaking, sculpture, tapestries, paintings, stamps, theater sets. His work is inspired by principles in all poetry.
From initial training as an architect, he abandoned his studies to dedicate himself entirely to drawing and moved to Paris in 1960.
His first drawings were published by New York magazines, « Esquire, » « Horizon, » « The New Yorker. »
It stands out in the field of illustration several styles characterized by large gradients in watercolor and use of recurring characters in the schematic outline voluntarily. Their wandering weightless in vast barren landscapes or otherwise enigmatic urban spaces, perfectly in tune with the questions of Western society of the time are probably the best aspect of his work.
He illustrated for Amnesty International in 1988 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In 1990 a major exhibition brings together his works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The artist has his own museum, the « Fondation Folon », which he himself founded in 2000. It is located in the park area at La Hulpe Solvay in Belgium.