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Jacques Mandelbrojt was born in 1929, he is a painter but also a theoretical physicist. Professor Emeritus of physics at the University of Provence, he created there in 1970 and directed the Plastic Arts department of the U.E.R. until 1973. de Luminy before it was transferred to Aix-en-Provence. He is best known for his lyrical paintings, worked in a few gestures on a white background,
The artist considers his painting to be different from Western gestural painting in the sense that, if the painting is done in a few seconds or a few minutes, the mental, physical and psychological preparation has been long until the moment when an anticipatory vision allows the initiation of the action. The artist then only submits to the events of the present of the work. This attitude is likely to create surprise, to disrupt the gesture, to put it out of its element and then hope that the visitor's gaze will be carried away. Mandelbrojt’s gesture has only a before and an after. What is the cause is not there. What is there is only a consequence of an inner vision that is difficult to formulate.
He perfectly assumes the relationship of his work with oriental painting, he writes: “oriental painters prepare their painting for a long time in their minds but the execution is rapid and without repentance”
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