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Jean Pierre Rousselet
 
 
About the Artist

What if Michelangelo had apprenticed at Andy Warhol’s Factory in New York City?
The results might be something like the works of Brazilian born, Florida based, painter Jean Pierre Rousselet.

Rousselet rethinks the epic figures of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in startling Technicolor.
The recumbent, well-muscled torso of Adam both emerges from and recedes into a background that traverses the spectrum from fiery orange and yellow to cool blue and raspberry hues. Although his rock ribbed midsection is swathed in a patch of yellow, the rest of the truncated figure, neither his head nor his outstretched arm beyond the bicep is depicted, appears in black and white, as if he were carved from marble.
Bands of colored balls, a recurring Rousselet motif that resembles the Benday dots appropriated by the pop artists of the 1950s and ’60s, create an opposing diagonal to the figure. The dots also appear in the artist’s version of the Sistine Eve, whose sculptural, twisting torso floats against a sea of tangerine orbs.
At the famous tension-filled moment right before the hand of man receives the touch of God, Rousselet pivots the action from Michelangelo’s horizontal depiction of the event to a God’s eye view, as the Lord’s hand emerges from the foreground toward Adam’s outstretched digits, the once only imagined spark between them now appearing as a dazzlingly colored dimensional portal crackling with energy.

— Bob Weinberg
CityLink magazine - Florida, US

 
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Adam

2005
acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm

Adam from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel

Ignudu

2005
acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm

Ignudi from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel

God

2005
acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm

God from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel

Hands

2005
acrylic on canvas
180 x 100 cm

Hands study, from Michelangelo

Vetruvian

2005
acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm

Vetruvian man study by Leonardo da Vinci

Angel

2007
acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cm

Ezechiel's angel by Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel

EvaVenus

2007
acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm

EvaVenus
Inspired on Eve from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel, and the classic Venus of Rubens

Libyan

2007
acrylic on canvas
120 x 170 cm

Inspired on Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, Sistine Chapel.

Diana

2008
gold leaf and acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm

Diana – inspired by the Boucher’s painting “Diana resting after her bath”, 1742. Gold leaf and acrylic on canvas - The painting has a new signature, my Chinese signature. As we all know, now we have to be Chinese artists to be noticed in the US. You find them everywhere, as everything in the Wal-Mart. If you are Chinese it doesn’t matter the quality of the work, it can be just experimentations like the ones we did in the art school when we were just starting, you will be noticed, requested, get viewed in a NY show and most important, priceless.

Aurora

2008
gold leaf and acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm

Aurora
Aurora (Eos), the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. Sister of Helios the sun and Selene the moon, at the close of night she rose front the couch of her beloved Tithonus to announce the coming light of the sun. Cursed by Aphrodite to fall in love for handsome mortals, she is seduced and receives ephemeral gifts, representing our materialistic contemporary society. Inspired on Lagrenée’s painting, c.1765, with a touch of the color of the evanescent aurora borealis, it is paited over gold leaf.

Times Square Tower

2008
Acrylic and inkjet on canvas.
120 x 150 cm

Times Square Milenium Hotel

2008
Acrylic and inkjet on canvas.
100 x 100 cm

Times Square Little Brazil

2008
Acrylic and inkjet on canvas.
100 x 100 cm

Times Square NY Advertise

2008
Acrylic and inkjet on canvas.
100 x 100 cm

Times Square New Yorker

2008
acrylic and inkjet on canvas
100 x 100 cm

Times Square New Yorker

Indian

2008
acrylic on linen
100 x 100 cm

Madona and Child

2008
acrylic on canvas
100 x 140cm

Madona Face

2009
acrylic on linen
100 x 100 cm

Eva

2004
acrylic on canvas
165 x 165 cm

Eve - from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel

Libyan

2007
acrylic on canvas
180 x 120 cm

Libyan Sibyl - from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel

Red

2007
acrylic on canvas
120 x 120 cm

Red movement

Blue

2007
acrylic on canvas
120 x 120 cm

Blue movement
 
Education and biography
Architect and interior designer, has worked as TV producer for Disney Channel and HBO International.

Education:
Architecture and Industrial Design - Sao Paulo, Brazil

Exhibitions:
Etra fine art gallery, Miami, FL

2007 Artfusion Gallery, Miami, FL
2007 CasaDecor USA, Miami,FL
 
Future shows

 
Website:  www.jprousselet.com
 
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