Career
Bouvagne, a keen observer of nature, specialized in landscape and still life painting. His style remains split between classical Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Thin, relatively small, yet visible brush strokes, exhibiting an accurate depiction of light and colors that took precedence over lines and contours.
Following the example of painters such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Bouvagne"s palette is restrained, dominated by browns, blacks and silvery green, his brushstrokes carefully controlled.
Miciol himself was a former student of Jehan Georges Vibert (1840-1902), the French Academic Painter, and the first co-president of the Société Lyonnaise des Beaux Arts.
