PAUL AMBILLE 1930/2010

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Paul Ambille enrolled very early at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he attended the workshops of Jean Dupas and Edouard Goerg. In 1955, he won the Grand Prix de Rome and stayed at the Villa Medici for four years. He was appointed official painter of the Navy in 1993 and elected President of the Taylor Foundation in 1995 until 2007. Paul AMBILLE was exhibited in prestigious galleries in Paris as well as in Japan, Switzerland, the United States and England. and in the Netherlands. Some of his works are kept in French and foreign museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
His painting expresses itself on a register of vibrant colors, the objects that his art apprehends are seen as through a veil, we can even say that they are dreamed, as they are fluid, quivering, being the quintessence of their own poetic…

Critical reception

“A painting with skillful and “well-bred” lyricism. Influenced by the monumental art of the fresco, by the lyricism of Legueult, by the expressionism of Goerg and Clavé, Paul Ambille orchestrates his themes (Sport, Birds, Races, Water landscapes) to reflect them. stick to the essential, to gradually erase the anecdote. A firm drawing always underlies the action of the colored masses, underlines their movement in a parallel path. » - Gerald Schurr.

“Figurative, his painting was able to integrate certain audacity from futurism suitable for the expression of movements. It suggests more than it describes. He likes to paint lively and colorful subjects, which the South generously offers him. » - Jacques Busse
“Riders, regattas, marines, urban architectural structures become vertical, horizontal, diagonal lines through his hand. It tends towards the search for a simplifying synthesis in suggestive plans. Little by little, its material became matte, limpid, baptismal. Orchestras, rugby matches, bathers, yachting, women resting in the garden offer you escape through metamorphosis, the modesty of tones, the finest nuances of values... The play of painted, consubstantial masses serves to aesthetic edification of all of Ambille's work. » - Guy Vignoh

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