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Michel Carrade was born on August 8, 1923 in Tarbes, Midi-Pyrenees, France.
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Michel Carrade
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Passionate about drawing, he enrolled in architecture by his father at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse.
Career
After Michel's studying, Michel decided to settle in Paris in 1946 with his wife. He discovered then Cezanne and all the classical painters, and explored greedily all the museums and galleries of the capital. To subsist, he accepted a first job in an advertising agency, where he drew labels of wine bottles. In 1947, he obtained a job as assistant professor of drawing in the Schools of the City of Paris.
Robert Lapoujade, painter, introduced him to the Alsatian School, rue d'Assas, where he entered the same year as professor of artistic education. He stayed there until 1974, developing an innovative artistic pedagogy adapted to each child. During the summer holidays of the National Education, he worked in the countryside in a family house located in the Tarn, near Castres. There he met Paul Enjalbert who would have a great importance, teaching him the premises of his future theory of the pictorial field. Charles-Pierre Bru, philosopher, who resided not far from Castres, joined them. He also reflected on the question of the colorimetric measurement of an accomplished pictorial work.
In 1963, Michel Carrade entered the Jeanne Bucher Gallery at the invitation of then director Jean-François Jaeger. There is a first monographic exhibition which was particularly promising. The Galerie Jeanne Bucher was hosting an exhibition by Michel Carrade in Canada, in Montreal in 1969, at the Galerie de Montréal. That passage to Montreal led Michel Carrade to stop in New York with American friends to discover with dazzlement how painters like Mark Rothko or Jackson Pollock faced directly gesture, matter and color stripped of all sentimentality. Canvas "Tablecloths", presented in Montreal, announced a turning point in the work of Michel Carrade who would increasingly turn to the work on light that proceeded from the exact balance of colors in powerful tension in a canvas. He then abandoned the concepts of lyrical abstraction to move towards pure forms of painting that capture light energy.
Michel Carrade also co-organized during1969 the exhibition "Play at the Sign of the Alsatian School" at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris which met a great success in terms of inventiveness in pedagogy of drawing and graphic gesture. In 1989, he moved with his wife to their home in the South West. The following years would be those of intense solitary work on his hill in the Tarn countryside. In 2000, he exhibited in New York, Boating Roseline Koener. In 2014, he exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, in the space dedicated to the work of Claude Parent. More recently, in 2018, the Abattoirs of Toulouse paid tribute to his work in a collective exhibition entitled "The Art of Color."
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Over the years, the painter has evolved from the color-matter to the color-light, from the color inscribed to the light induced or emitted by the work - transparent, phenomenal, effusive and spatial as soon as it falls on she a ray of sunshine.
Membership
Michel Carrade belongs to the group known as the School of Paris, first of all in the movement of lyrical Abstraction.
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It is known that Michel Carrade was married to a woman named Laure. Their first son, Jean-Baptiste, was born in April 1946. It was in 1954 that his second son, Christophe, was born.
