VIDALENS Frédéric

Frédéric VIDALENS, born 31 January 1925 in Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze) and died in Paris in August 2004, is a French painter and engraver. He is buried at the Cemetery of the Lachaise Father. A figurative painter, surrealist, enrolled under the N°8531 at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris from 1944 to 1949, he was admitted final on 26 June 1945 and joined the Atelier de Jean Dupas at the same time as Paul Ambille, Joseph Archepel, Emile Courtin, Geoffroy Dauvergne, Jean-Pierre Alaux, Jean Monneret, Paul Collomb, Jean Joyet, Mickaël Compagnion, Ernest Risse, Maurice Boitel, René Quillivic and André Plisson. Her paintings, with a sleek style and pastel colours, are still lifes featuring common objects, tablecloths, towels, books, bowls, eggs, sewing machines in impeccable alignment. Reviews on the website of the Visconti gallery. He received a second medal at the Three Workshops in 1949. " What strikes first is silence. A long silence: of those we hear. And then, it is the wise, mathematical, solemn immobility of objects. Finally comes the color: soft, light hues, like a white that looks between beige and ochre. There. It is the "part taken from things", Vidalens version, painter of safe observation, poet of a world surprised in his ancient wisdom, perhaps philosopher whose work, mystery, breathes modesty and supreme irony. . Jérôme Garcin