{"id":2931,"date":"2022-07-18T17:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charlescarrere.art\/the-multifaceted-artist\/ses-peintures-aquarelles\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T11:17:18","slug":"his-painting-and-watercolours","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/charlescarrere.art\/en\/the-multifaceted-artist\/his-painting-and-watercolours\/","title":{"rendered":"His paintings & watercolours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the spot<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Charles Carr\u00e8re likes to paint “on the spot”, i.e. in the open air, in front of the landscape. The artist applied his paint directly to the canvas without any prior drawing. Later, he continued to paint on the motif only during his holidays. When he painted at night in his studio, he produced a completely different style, letting his imagination wander, guided by his surrealist spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each time he travelled, Charles Carr\u00e8re noted everything he did in his travel diary as well as his expenses and mileage. For this watercolour gouache painting, as he liked to say, we find a trace of the work “Solesmes” dated June 1966. In his notebook it is indicated that he painted this landscape on June 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Solesmes june1966 \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re
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Charles Carr\u00e8re produced a very large number of paintings on the motif. A Focus will be devoted to a tour of France through the paintings of Charles Carr\u00e8re. And there are some amazing discoveries! To be continued\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Village on the Brittany coast 19 June 1973 \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re
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Pyrenees tower and bell tower – undated \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re
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In his studio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When Charles Carr\u00e8re paints in his studio, he either paints from a photo or he simply creates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FROM PICTURE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

He takes photos on holiday or during his walks in nature and then uses them as inspiration for his paintings. As for example below: with on the left “The Lighthouse” and on the right an untitled work taken from a landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le Phare 3 oct 2010 \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re
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Untitled work June 9, 2018 \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re
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During the last years of his life, Charles Carr\u00e8re chose the small format for his paintings. Nature and light were his preoccupations at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Untitled work on 20 Nov 2016 \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

CREATIVITY AND SURREALISM<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When Charles Carr\u00e8re lets his imagination take over, it leads him towards surrealism.
This is how we often find birds with anthropomorphic profiles but also imaginary human portraits. Sometimes he creates works dealing with history or opera and often we find literary or poetic references. With Charles Carr\u00e8re, the gap between the object and its representation is a common practice. As for his inspirations, they often come from his favourite poets such as Ren\u00e9 Char, Jacques Pr\u00e9vert or Paul Eluard to name but a few. And Charles Carr\u00e8re, a lover of literature, often quotes Baudelaire and Mallarm\u00e9 as well as Alfred Jarry and Apollinaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some representative works:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Here is the ornithoromachy where the bullfighters are birds and the antitaureaumachy where the winner of the fight is the bull that is going to be decorated for his exploit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ornithoromachie \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re
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Antitaureaumachie \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re
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Charles Carr\u00e8re painted imaginary portraits. Sometimes he painted them with a little bit of piquant humour, as in this painting of a notary and a bishop, implying who is confessing who?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The notary and the bishop \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re
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Then here are two other imaginary portraits. On the left is the Far Easterner with his waterfall beard and on the right is the cobbler from the caprice of the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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L’extr\u00eame oriental\/ the far east \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re
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The cobbler \u00a9CharlesCarr\u00e8re
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Focus will be published regularly and will allow you to find out more about a work by Charles Carr\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continued towards: Plastic research<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or back to the main page: The multi-faceted artist<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the spot Charles Carr\u00e8re likes to paint “on the spot”, i.e. in the open air, in front of the landscape. The artist applied his paint directly to the canvas without any prior drawing. Later, he continued to paint on the motif only during his holidays. When he painted at night in his studio, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2881,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2931","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlescarrere.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlescarrere.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlescarrere.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarrere.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarrere.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarrere.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarrere.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2931\/revisions\/3880"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlescarrere.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlescarrere.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}