JEAN FOUQUET

JEANS' BIO

• Jean was born in Tours france in 1420.
• Develop his craft from the stewardship of bedford masters in paris
• His adventurous life migrated him to Italy in 1437
• First top work was to pain the Etienne Chevalier.
• In the mid 1440's his best work was unvail "The virgin and Child"

Jean Fouquet was born in Tours in the year 1420. He is the most representative and national French painter of the 15th century. Of his life little is known, but it is certain that he was in Italy about 1437, where he executed the portrait of Pope Eugenius IV, and that upon his return to France, whilst retaining his purely French sentiment, he grafted the elements of the Tuscan style, which he had acquired during his sojourn in Italy, upon the style of the Van Eycks, which was the basis of early 15th-century French art, and thus became the founder of an important new school of artist.

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Whether he worked on miniatures or on a larger scale holy spiritual panel paintings, Fouquet's art had the same monumental character. His figures are modelled in broad planes defined by lines of magnificent purity. He was essentially a draughtsman, and it was his drawing that imparted to his compositions their balance and clarity. His artistic sense of form went with a cool and detached temperament, and in his finest works the combination creates a deeply impressive gravity.

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After the Italian renaissance new painting were emerging, different techniques and styles were on the rise. The art industry and Europe was on a transformation, change from the normal medieval period to a more enlighten and tolerant society, Jean was not to be left behind. Might not have been his greatest art work, the Virgin and child by far was one of his most famous work. His vision pushed the level of art work standard as society then was not accustomed to any form of nudity being displayed through art. As his supernatural imagination unfolds in the form of a queen surrounded by red and blue seraphim which makes up the background and a virgin holding a baby with a tightly grip waist, an unlaced bosom so she can present her breast in an artistic form. With this picture he opened the doors for many nude artist and left behind a great legacy of work for future and upcoming painters.

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JEAN FOUQUET THE MOVIE TRAILER