Bernard Dumaine

Biography

Bernard Dumaine (born in 1953, in Angoulême, France) is a French artist, most well-known for his artwork in the surrealism and photorealism styles, and for his background designs for television cartoons. He works in a variety of media, including oil paints, acrylic paints, graphite pencil, digital painting, digital collage, and video.

He got his National Fine Arts diploma in sculpture with a mention for drawing in 1977. Many single and group exhibitions followed, both locally and internationally. His early work included drawings in the style of photorealism and surrealist oil paintings. His surrealist work was influenced by Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, and Gérard Titus-Carmel.

He is currently working mostly in digital media, oil paints, and pencil. He is also doing Exquiste Corpse works in collaboration with many artists internationally, and these collaborative works have recently been exhibited in galleries across France.

From Bernard Dumaine’s feature in Future Art Magazine:

“Imagination and chance have a large place in the creation of my pictures, which are also works of experimentation and research. My favorite part of creating art is the ‘stream of consciousness’ process, and the discovery of each image as I am working – I do not know exactly what would appear until I have finished it.”

Member Data

Membership: senior member since Dec. 4, 2009
Energy Art style: energetic surrealism
Medium: oil / digital painting, pencils
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