The painter Charles Bezie was born in Varades (Loire-Atlantique) in 1934. He did his artistic training by first attending the courses at the art school of St Nazaire from 1951 to 1955. He moved to Paris and joined the Académie Jullian where he remained for two years (1957/1958). During the next two years (1958 and 1957), Charles Bezie continued his training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Reims.His first solo exhibition was held at the Simone Heller Gallery in Paris in 1974.From 1974, Charles...

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  The painter Charles Bezie was born in Varades (Loire-Atlantique) in 1934. He did his artistic training by first attending the courses at the art school of St Nazaire from 1951 to 1955. He moved to Paris and joined the Académie Jullian where he remained for two years (1957/1958). During the next two years (1958 and 1957), Charles Bezie continued his training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Reims.
  His first solo exhibition was held at the Simone Heller Gallery in Paris in 1974.
  From 1974, Charles Bézie has been using straight lines in his work: horizontals, verticals and the two diagonals.
  At first, he wanted to oppose his work to that of our great elders: Malevitch and Mondrian, by trying to « erase » the geometry by a connection of thin lines, this is what he calls his graphic period.
  During the following years, his work went through several periods where the line became thicker and thicker until it became a stripe, leading to the sign that he calls « Quadrille ».
  In 1995, he abandoned the obliques.
  Since then, his work has been a research on rhythms, obtained from numbers (for instance even or odd, or from 1 to 10); irregular rhythms with « Gradations » where the squares have their surface divided by lines, and regular rhythms with « cadences » where the rows of squares are underlined only at the top and bottom.The year 2003 saw the beginning of the « Fibonacci Suite ». This Italian mathematician of the 13th century, whose series of numbers in progression is simply constituted by the addition of the 2 preceding digits or numbers and also because of the quotients between two adjacent numbers all approach the number 1.618, the famous « golden number ».His current project is to continue to work with numbers for as long as it makes sense for his pictorial approach.The art of geometry, which spanned the entire 20th century, should remain important because it preceded and accompanied the digital age in which we live.Regularly exhibited in solo exhibitions in France and abroad, he will participate in many collective events (France, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Belgium, Austria). His work is present in many museums and public collections.Charles Bezie has lived and worked in Paris for over 60 years.
  
  

  

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