Jean Arcelin

• Name — Jean Arcelin • Born — 22 June 1962 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Field — painting • Training — Sorbonne, Paris • Movement — Realism • Website — www.jean-arcelin.fr

Arcelin studied at Charpentier, an accredited art history school affiliated with the Sorbonne, where he developed an interest in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century painting. His paintings blend false realism and figurative art, and aspects of Baroque style. His pictorial compositions are simply the results of his imagination without any cinematographic aids, using principally the oil canvas technique called "alla prima", keen to the original impressionist painters, which cancels the initial undercoated and glazed steps. Landscapes edge with the urban sea, and combine with portraitist gesture. He takes corners of Paris, cafe chairs piled up in the angle of view of a monument, or the dressing room of a theatre, and portrays them empty of all human presence. He participated in the Ebel sponsored Art and Culture in Basel and in Villa Schwob, Switzerland from 1990 to 1995 and exhibited in 1989, 1990 and 1999 at the Institut de France.

• Since 2006: Galerie 26 Place des Vosges, Paris. • 2013: Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA. • Since 2012: Besharat Gallery, Barbizon. • Since 2010: Besharat Gallery, Atlanta, GA. • 2010, 2011: Ariel Sibony Gallery, Place des Vosges, Paris. • 2010, 2011: Sibman Gallery, Place des Vosges, Paris. • 2010, 2015: Galerie Fert, Yvoire, France.

• 2011, 2012, 2013: Art Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, FL. • 2010, 2011, 2012: The Affordable Art Fair (AAF), New York City. • 2011: Scope Basel, Switzerland. • 2011: ArtMRKT, San Francisco, CA. • 2011: Scope, New York City. • 2011: Lille Art Fair. • 2011: MIA Art Fair, Miami, FL. • 2010: The Red Dot, Miami, FL. • 2010: Art London, Chelsea.

• Illustration — Pacific court • Illustration — Boudoir • Illustration — Mirror and pool