GENIS René

René GENIS (born 26 January 1922) is a French painter and engraver.

Returning from Indochina to the metropolis in 1931, René Genis' family moved to Gironde, Blaye and Arcachon, and finally to Paris in 1937.

Joined the École des arts appliqués in Paris, Genis took refuge in 1940 with his family in Bordeaux, where he attended the École des beaux-arts. Back in Paris, he entered the École nationale des arts décoratifs where he met André Brasilier, Bernard Cathelin, Paul Guiramand and Guy Bardone. His teachers are Jules Cavaillès, François Desnoyer and Maurice Brianchon.

In 1950 he obtained the first degree in decorative painting (promotion Albert Marquet) in Marcel Gromaire's workshop (1892-1961). He helped Jean Lurçat to create his tapestry cartons.

From that time, René Genis presented his paintings at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, and he received the prize in 1960. For forty years, he regularly exhibited at the Salon Comparisons in Maurice Boitel's group. He is also a member of the Société des peinteurs-graveurs français.

As a member of the Fall Salon, Genis soon acquired international fame and his paintings were exhibited in galleries in New York, Tokyo, Essen, Lausanne, Geneva, Taipei, and many museums, both French and foreign, now owned his works.

René Genis was influenced by the poetic reality group with Christian Caillard, Jules Cavaillès, Raymond Legueult, Roger Limouse, Roland Oudot, André Planson, etc. Swiss painter Andry admits that he was influenced by him.

A specialist in still life and the landscape, his art reflects an ease and rigor of drawing, relying on the talent of the colorist who asserts himself with delicacy and elegance. The density of the contrasts is served by a certain simplification of the shapes and a flattening of the pure colors where the light bursts (evening light, Serifos, Greece or The Cat in the alley, Serifos, Greece).

This apparent simplicity goes hand in hand with a research that reveals itself, in particular, in still lifes brightened by tapestries, mosaics or ceramics (Le Pichet jaspé, 1973; The Bols, 2000), floral representations (Chinese vase ombelles, 2000; Bouquet and shells, 1990) or a simple wall in a landscape (evening light, Bandol, Provence).