| Jean Pierre Rousselet |
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Born in Brazil
live and work in Miami, USA
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| 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 |
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Adam from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel |
Ignudu
2005 acrylic on canvas 170 x 170 cm |
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Ignudi from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel |
God
2005 acrylic on canvas 170 x 170 cm |
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God from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel |
Hands
2005 acrylic on canvas 180 x 100 cm |
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Hands study, from Michelangelo |
Vetruvian
2005 acrylic on canvas 170 x 170 cm |
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Vetruvian man study by Leonardo da Vinci |
Angel
2007 acrylic on canvas 160 x 120 cm |
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Ezechiel's angel by Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel |
EvaVenus
2007 acrylic on canvas 170 x 170 cm |
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Inspired on Eve from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel, and the classic Venus of Rubens |
Libyan
2007 acrylic on canvas 120 x 170 cm |
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Inspired on Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, Sistine Chapel. |
Diana
2008 gold leaf and acrylic on canvas 170 x 170 cm |
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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 |
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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 |
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Times Square Milenium Hotel
2008 Acrylic and inkjet on canvas. 100 x 100 cm |
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Times Square Little Brazil
2008 Acrylic and inkjet on canvas. 100 x 100 cm |
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Times Square NY Advertise
2008 Acrylic and inkjet on canvas. 100 x 100 cm |
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Times Square New Yorker
2008 acrylic and inkjet on canvas 100 x 100 cm |
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Indian
2008 acrylic on linen 100 x 100 cm |
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Madona and Child
2008 acrylic on canvas 100 x 140cm |
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Madona Face
2009 acrylic on linen 100 x 100 cm |
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Eva
2004 acrylic on canvas 165 x 165 cm |
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Eve - from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel |
Libyan
2007 acrylic on canvas 180 x 120 cm |
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Libyan Sibyl - from Michelangelo at Sistine Chapel |
Red
2007 acrylic on canvas 120 x 120 cm |
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Red movement |
Blue
2007 acrylic on canvas 120 x 120 cm |
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Blue movement |
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| 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 |
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| Future shows |
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Website: www.jprousselet.com |
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