Angeli Laurent | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Laurent first painted in a hyperrealist style and with everything that came to hand (cans, household products, shoes, motorcycles, cars, etc.) Then he moved to self-portraits, portraits of his family and the views of Paris using oil. Indian ink and oil paint are his favourite mediums. Currently, he is preparing a big series of portraits of ‘the people in the street’ in black and white, in oil and on large size canvases (130 x 80 cm), and, at the same time, a series of drawings in Indian ink representing street scenes. ‘Street, people, life’ are, therefore, among the main themes of inspiration for Laurent Angeli, who claims to have multiple influences: the hyperrealist Chuck Close and David Parrish, but also Edward Hooper and Norman Rockwell.