Dan Poncet
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Dan Poncet is a contemporary French
French people
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 painter
Painting
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.

Born on July 14, 1953 at the château
Château
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 de Saint-Just
Saint-Just, Ain
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 in Ain
Ain
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 department, France
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. She graduated in 1972 from the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon and thereafter from the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon
École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon
The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Lyon is a school of art and design in Lyon, located in Les Subsistances, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon.-Directors:* 1960-1974 : Jean Coquet* 1974-1992 : Philippe Nahoum* 1992-1998 : Guy Issanjou...

.

Her first paintings show an influence of impressionism
Impressionism
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 and of fauvism
Fauvism
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. After 1975 she returned to realism and to old techniques used in 17th century paintings, such as glaze
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, pâtes or demi-pâtes.

After meeting rosarian Jean Pierre Guillot in 1997, she also produced a series of paintings with subjects related to roses such as "Cueillette dans le Jardin de Roses". Guillot named a rose cultivar
Cultivar
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 "Dan Poncet".
C'est en 1972, que Dan Poncet entre à l'Ecole d'Architecture de Lyon, puis l'année suivante aux Beaux Arts.
In 1974,she duscovered realitism and the old techiques of the worshop of Hubert Gaillard.
Un enseignement de rigueur, de souveraine précision, qui aujourd'hui prévaut dans sa propre facture. Passionnée par la beauté de la nature et l'esthétisme en tout, elle sait distiller le rêve et l'humour dans une élégante légèreté de touche. Sous le trait perce la fantaisie et sa palette, lumineuse, ignore le sombre et le ténébreux.
Aux multiples facettes de ses thèmes, elle cisèle les petits et grands bonheurs : fleurs et couleurs chatoyantes en courbes épanouies, galbes de femmes fleurs en dentelles romantiques, jardins luxuriants et sujets croqués dans sa campagne de l' Ain où elle vit depuis toujours.
C'est aussi ses impressions de lointains voyages qui l'ont marquée tout autant que l'approche journalière des animaux qui l'entourent : chats énigmatiques, chiens cabotins et chevaux altiers et câlins...et, dans une série particulière, au réalisme fantastique, ses grenouilles immortalisées dans un monde étrange où métiers, passions et travers humains se transposent en métaphores, en batraciennes charges humaines.
On remarque ses fantasmes exotiques ou furtivement érotiques qu'elle peaufine en grands plans maxi réaliste. Ailleurs, ce sont les prouesses techniques du trompe-l'oeil quand sur la toile "se conte une histoire, dans une savante mise en scène qui révèle la recherche poétique de mes univers quotidiens", confie-t-elle.

Exhibitions

  • The fifth Avenue Art and Antiques Show. New York. 1997.
  • Frye Museum. Seattle. 1998.
  • Hôtel de Ville. Lyon
    Lyon
    Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

    . 1998.
  • Galery Revel. Soho. New York. 1999.
  • Galery RJ King, New York. 2000
  • La maison des Princes Pérouges
    Pérouges
    Pérouges is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. It is a medieval walled town northeast of Lyon. It is perched on a small hill that overlooks the plain of the Ain River.-History:...

    , 2003
  • Bellecour, Lyon, 1977
  • "L'art et la vie", Lyon 1979
  • Exposition avec la Société Lyonnaise des Beaux Arts, Lodze/Pologne
  • Galerie Georges Blanc, Vonnas 1991
  • Exposition à la Collégiale Saint-Pierre-le-Puillier, Orléans 1993
  • Centre Culturel Wladimir d'Ormesson, Ormesson sur Marne 1994
  • Exposition "Le coq au Vin", Juliénas 1995
  • Exposition Rotary, Saint-Just 1997
  • Hôtel de Ville. Lyon. 1998.
  • Divonne les Bains 2009


http://www.dan-poncet.fr/ - Réalisme fantastique : les grenouilles, mais aussi le Passion des fleurs
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