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Charles Carr\u00e8re has always been keen to pay tribute to his drawing teacher Louis-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dupuis from the Bayonne school of drawing and painting. Charles Carr\u00e8re draws every day. His favourite technique is charcoal. But he also does a large number of ink drawings with a pen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Carr\u00e8re says that everything can be drawn, life, death, still lifes, birds that he draws from nature. And if the artist looks at a tree trunk or a skull he immediately sees shapes or a silhouette. It’s a bit like fantasy,” he explains. He gives anthropomorphic expressions to the animals and even to the objects he chooses to draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birds play an important role in his work. As a child he watched women plucking birds in the farmyard. He was both fascinated and horrified. That is why he never stopped wanting to bring them to life. He depicts them in anthropomorphic profile and sometimes takes advantage of this to denounce human defects. In this way, he thinks he is restoring a certain justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Birds from life \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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“The sad servants of the temple of routine” \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Charles Carr\u00e8re also likes to draw by mixing charcoal and red chalk for the rendering of models and volumes. Here in the drawing below: “The perfidious adviser” he has mixed charcoal with red chalk. He also used black stone to obtain a more intense black and white to adjust the values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The perfidious advisor” \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Charles Carr\u00e8re uses black ink for his pen-and-ink drawings. The work is precise down to the last detail. Below left, “The child and mathematics”. Charles Carr\u00e8re depicted what mathematics classes provoked in his brain. He laughed and said that he was not at all receptive to mathematics. And on the right is “La sainte ampoule”. In these two works, Charles Carr\u00e8re plays with the style inspired by Op Art or Optical Art used in the 1920s by the Bauhaus artists, including Kandinsky and later propelled by Vasarely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The child tortured by mathematics \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The holy ampoule \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

But Charles Carr\u00e8re goes further with other charcoal drawings that he defines as “Caprices”. These caprices serve to denounce or reveal the irrational behaviour of man. Sometimes it is also an excuse to project himself into the surrealism that the artist is particularly fond of. Here is an example of a caprice whose surrealism is obvious from Charles Carr\u00e8re’s explanation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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