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A student at the Chartres high school then at the Paris School of Applied Arts, which he left quite quickly because he was too focused on application for his taste, Claude AUGEREAU attended the workshops of Jean Metzinger and Fernand Léger who advised him. Painter, initially a cubist, and sculptor, he abandoned the latter activity and devoted himself solely to painting at the end of the 1960s. In the 1980s, he wrote:
“Painting is what remains today when the psycho-social meanings have become illegible, when the pretexts are forgotten, when the image is worn out and the anecdote is derisory. It is a trace left by the painter while exploring his field, a trace which must summarize and say everything: the why and the how, the time and the place, the author and his reasons. This trace should show us as we are, without ostentation or dissimulation. This is what we defend with this means: painting has also become the goal.”
Claude Augereau practiced lyrical abstract painting until his death.
He taught from 1976 to 1988 at the Beaux-Arts in Paris after succeeding Serge Hélias as head of the painting workshop.
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