Castel Michel | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Castel Michel
- France
Painter
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"I refute all logic; each painting is a revelation for me. Ten years ago, I never would have imagined the canvases I paint today..." Georges Braques
A retired engineer in electronics by trade, Michel Castel has two passions that guide him and that he cultivate with delight: painting and Toulouse. Michel has lived in Haute-Garonne for many years and is a self-taught artist who has managed to keep his practice of drawing and painting alive throughout his entire career. Beginning in the 2000s he decided to devote himself entirely to strengthening his knowledge in visual representations in order to perfect his style and techniques. Michel is attached to daily urban scenes and finds his preferred themes in the perspectives of the "pink city," and is able to use the expression of his art to transmit all the affection he feels for the city.
Michel is enriched by his studies of works by masters of modern painting - such as Raoul Dufy, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and even Maurice Utrillo - and by artists such as Michel Jouenne and Daniel Bigaré, and makes his figurative works using acrylic paint, following a process that is singular and characteristic. Therefore, he begins each one of his canvases by applying colours directly to the support, without making any sketches beforehand, in order to create a multi-coloured environment that is harmonious and nuanced. The abstract composition is done with a paintbrush, which "makes it possible for him to combine a design based on nature with his own inventions." He then sketches the buildings and inhabitants with spontaneity, such as the silhouettes he draws freehand, which gives his works a perfectible and authentic style.
- France :
- 2019Exhibition at the La Mosaïque gallerySaint-Jean, France
- 2005First Place at the 50th Fall FairVilleneuve-le-Roi, France
- 1970Engineer in electronicsOccitania, France
- 1953BirthGaillac, France
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Castel Michel
Sur le Canal du Rhône au Rhin, 52
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Quai de la Bruche n°116
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Castel Michel
Obernai, Place du marché, 12
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France, 25
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Castel Michel
Sur le Canal du Rhône au Rhin, 14
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Quai de la Bruche n°110
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Castel Michel
Colmar, Petite Venise n°134
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Place de la Cathédrale n°109
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France n°177
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France n°137
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France n°138
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Castel Michel
Strasbourg, La maison des Tanneurs n°173
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Castel Michel
Strasbourg, La maison des Tanneurs n°153
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Castel Michel
Strasbourg, La Maison des Tanneurs n°166
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France n°196
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Terrasse de café n°98
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France, 2
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France n°197
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France n°201
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Castel Michel
Strasbourg, La Maison des Tanneurs, n°199
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France n°187
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France, 30
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Castel Michel
Sur le Canal du Rhône au Rhin, 10
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Castel Michel
Strasbourg,Place de la Cathédrale n°186
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Place de la cathédrale n°97
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Castel Michel
Le Parlement Européen, 27
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Castel Michel
Strasbourg, La Maison des Tanneurs n°200
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Castel Michel
Sur le Canal du Rhône au Rhin, 74
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Castel Michel
Sur la route des vins, 26
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Castel Michel
Strasbourg, La maison des tanneurs n°195
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France n°194
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Place de l'homme de fer n°92
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France n°198
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Place de la Cathédrale, 26
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Castel Michel
Sur le canal du Rhone au Rhin n°87
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Castel Michel
Micheline en gare, 9
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Castel Michel
Strasbourg, Petite France n°103
19 x 19 cmSGD 390