Jean-Yves Couliou

Jean-Yves Couliou (18 October 1916 1995) was a French painter.

Biography

Couliou was born in Landerneau, Finistère, France, and spent his youth in the neighbourhood of Pont-Aven, the village of his parents. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Rennes, Académies et Écoles Nationales Supérieures des Arts Décoratifs, des Arts Appliqués and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He was encouraged by the painters Brianchon, Dupas, Legueult, Roland Oudot, and Roger Bissière. He died in Lorient.

Style

Beginning in Naïve art, he later developed to a style of poetic realism, with periods of expressionism, Abstract art and lyrical and geometrical abstracticism.

Awards

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